Brexit, StarmerForce, and the UK's Role in Ukraine: A peacekeeper's dilemma
You are a British soldier in StarmerForce, the UK's peacekeeping mission to the Ukraine, when you come across a Russian patrol and they start shooting at you. What do you do?
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A. Ask them politely to stop?
B. Fire back?
C. Run away?
D. Call in the Americans?
The correct answer is any or all of the above. You might also question what you are doing there in the first place.
It's the sort of thing you get happening when you allow politicians to dress up in military fatigues.
One of the consequences of Brexit was to deprive young Britons of the opportunity to serve in the European Union army which has long been on the table and is an entirely logical step for a pan-European superstate which aspires to have a common foreign policy.
However, all is not lost, because as part of his reset & rejoin project Sir Keir Starmer has stepped up to put the UK at the heart of Europe in a prospective military operation on the continent in which we would stand shoulder to shoulder with our European friends and partners - apart, that is, from those who won't touch the idea with a bargepole.
