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Britain has a non -technical prime minister, an accident exhibition, excessive organization, but eventually. Imagine, for a moment, how much a man should prevail from the liberal to reduce external aid to finance a larger defense budget. Mr. Kiir Starmer makes this decision, because the world has changed. The role of his opponents has been to allocate a group of their own for the national interest.

The British right, whether in province or reform clothes in the United Kingdom, should abandon his doubts in Europe. Their country will not only have to spend more on defense, but to coordinate this long project with the rest of the democratic continent. In fact, Britain may spend rationally less On some types of kit and experience to avoid an ancient European curse of military repetition. Some things are granted on the basis that, in a crisis, France or Poland will provide them with and vice versa: This will require unprecedented confidence between the neighbors.

This is almost not the end of the matter. Europe will need more central voice in security issues, from purchases (one buyer to reduce the cost of weapons) to the same policy (one axis of the American president and other leaders of power blocs). imaginary? Perhaps, but it is not an alternative alternative, and it is to bet on the security of the United Kingdom on NATO, which, at best, can depend when the democracy is in the White House.

The concept of “Global Britain” has ended this month. A country has not registered a financial surplus since Millenniumfor whom Regular Wembley will not fill, he will not be a Pacific player even before Donald Trump threatens to withdraw the NATO financial pillow. Now, with a defense of defense on its air conditioning continent, all the UK governments in the foreseeable future will feel rare resources for the European theater.

The topic here is difficult to miss. Geography of things. The United Kingdom is an archipelago in northwestern Europe, who has already been subjected to a degree of Russian attention that is allowed only to discuss with the public from the elliptical point of view. If there is “Anglosphere”, only one member is anywhere near the end of the business of Russia, which is located in the west of the Ural. Some others are far away as it could be without leaving the planet. While one of the great assets, then, is members of the five -eyes – the United States Intelligence Club, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand – they will not have the same perception of the threat indefinitely.

There is no guarantee that Europe will, of course. Not so long ago, Emmanuel Macron has held diplomatic initiatives for Russia, which terrified the rest of the West. If a meaningful European security union appears, a popular government on the continent can sabotage it. But you achieve.

First, at least the European state must live with the consequences of Russia’s policy, to the extent that America does not do so. Second, Britain, with military influence, will have a military influence that France alone is identical, a great opinion of anything like this Pax Europa. Compare this with his lack of purchase in Washington. Three years of British rock support for Ukraine, and nearly 80 years of the same for NATO, could not undermine both entities within days.

“The West has not done enough to support Ukraine,” said Kimi Badnoush this week. This is the opposite of what many of her friends think about the right of the United States, which is that it was done, and that China is the real threat and that Vladimir Putin has things to teach Europe after Christianity. In foreign affairs, the conservative leader is not on the same page – the same book, the same type – like Maga but it cannot bring itself to recognize this, this is the muscular memory of embracing the United States. At least Saddam ignores global views. Others on the British right in an active denial. Boris Johnson is “completely sure” that Trump believes that Russia is the aggressor, even as the United Nations delegation vote otherwise. Nigel Farage is going through the steps of speech to pretend that Trump is one with Britain.

This is called a brave face. I feel that the British province knows that its American dream has ended. The nation will have to immerse itself in Europe for decades, not as an ideal project but as a must. As for the truth, relying on NATO will be what was doubtful on the left: electoral death. If conservatives want a sympathy idea, other countries in the American orbit will feel the same pressure to take alternative security arrangements. Imagine watching Ukraine’s treatment as an Asian state that caught between the United States and China.

This column did not mention that the other Brussels Club, which is located in Brussels, was that the nation of Angelovon was abandoned. Most Europe should do to protect itself can be done outside the European Union. You can be a strong installment and want a sovereign continent, with Britain at the forefront. However, Britain’s exit from the European Union has been sold on a related hypothesis here: Its rank has been reduced to geography as a worker in global affairs, that Australia or Brazil and above all could interest Britain as much as its neighbors do.

As an economic claim, this was only a mistake. (the European Union It remains a commercial partner in Britain.) As a strategic partner, it was a serious farce. Johnson once Described Europe as a continent we will never leave. “Replace the” will “with” can “, and the phrase takes a threat link, and no less than it.

Janan.ganesh@ft.com