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the UK is, more and more, looking to be part of the "baddies."
Have we ever been one of the "goodies"?
Serious question, we spent most of the last 500 years waging war with anyone who wanted a fight, plundering other countries of their wealth, including their populations for a particularly grim period of history, and generally being about as nasty as you can get. The inevitable decline of our empire saw a slight reigning in of our hard power, but I don't think we've ever really been a proper 'goodie', except maybe for 5 years in the 1940s when we helped defeat one of the nastiest figures in world history.
andyp
Things I've thought today:
I wonder if Russian sanctions were discussed at the Trump/May meeting.
If you draw a map of developing geopolitical relationships, the UK is, more and more, looking to be part of the "baddies."
Erdogan is a genius.