I don't understand this. The obvious goal of Russia was to have negotiations with US (cutting Europe out of discussion) and to place itself as the middle man with China. It appears to have successfully achieved all its goals. To move from competition to conflict makes no sense ->
https://twitter.com/trussliz/status/1492089230134239234
... UK which had the opportunity (as a consequence of brexit) to place itself in that middle man role (with the transition of power from West to East) appears to have reduced itself to irrelevance. This just seems like posturing for an internal audience ...
... so, I don't understand it. Is there something obvious that I'm missing because all I can see is the UK has been outplayed by Russia in pursuit of that middle man role ... or maybe it wasn't a focus for us ... I just don't get it.
Help in understanding appreciated ...
Help in understanding appreciated ...
... but as it stands, we appear to be heading towards a triumverate of China, US and Russia, a G3 determining the world's fate with Europe reduced to somewhere you go on holiday, gets told what will happen, buys products, produces novelty items.
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