In the worst case the NB8 plus Poland UA and UK can hold off Russia, but can’t currently deter it. This really needs a change in British posture (they could invite Poland into the Jef, prioritise defence spending etc) but Starmer isn’t in that frame of mind. They still think they can rely on US.

Yes fully agree. Western Europe has still to understand that including Eastern Europe in the EU means that the continued existence of European integration means taking the East’s security interests into account. France in particular struggles with this though Germany has got better.

Probably big enough especially if they modernise and build air power undue course but it’s not wise to concede the principle and negligent of W Eur if they’ve been pushing UA to do so

i don’t mean to be cynical, not at all but even if this is true i expect Ukraine only agreed in the knowledge Russia would reject the proposal

Indeed but the government, after some promising energy early in its term has failed to follow through

Things have got better since Libya but stockpiles are still a problem. The good
news is Russia has those problems even worse.

Anti-air defence missiles (SEAD/DEAD), are the most serious gap, followed by tactical nukes and probably still signals intelligence

In practice they do. I ran the numbers here. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Yeah we just had breakfast at home. But maybe the same people that stopped him having sex with his wife also stopped him squeezing his own oranges.

Ah that explains it, he moved back to London ordered a coffee, spremuta and a croissant, found it cost him £13 and pinned the blame on immigration.

I’d prefer - framework that didn’t need quite so much policy tinkering when technology’s changing so fast (zero carbon tax credits perhaps - I haven’t thought these through just occurred to me now)

I think we’re a couple of years before they start getting installed but the effects will be radical: ember-energy.org/app/uploads/...

It’s going to be great when we all have batteries that do this for us

He must have done something pretty bad to not just say words to the effect of “I may have been a bit of a dickhead at school, many of us were but we’ve grown up now”

It’s not even final then

Excellent name for this!

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