Isn’t it all a grand pretence that we are still relevant? Our armed forces continue to shrink, our diplomacy is mocked openly by our old allies, we are making ourselves a pariah in terms of adherence to international law and we are looked into increasingly as state similar to Russia- a problem to be managed rather than the global leaders we pretend to be.
Isn’t it all a grand pretence that we are still relevant? Our armed forces continue to shrink, our diplomacy is mocked openly by our old allies, we are making ourselves a pariah in terms of adherence to international law and we are looked into increasingly as state similar to Russia- a problem to be managed rather than the global leaders we pretend to be.