The events of this week shed light on Britain’s place in Europe and illustrate Boris Johnson’s frustrating duality—bold abroad and timid at home
membership, the agreements with Britain offer particular reassurance against Russian attack during the “grey-zone period” between applying to join and ratification of their membership. If they do join the alliance, “it would be a complete repudiation of Putin’s assumptions,” says Mr Johnson, speaking toSceptics might say that making commitments is easy when the risk of a conventional assault is low, at least in the immediate future.
’s northern flank and eastern front. It is central to a network of bilateral pacts and groupings, including the Joint Expeditionary Force, a cluster of ten states around the Baltic and the North Sea. Britain shunned a treaty on foreign policy and security when it left the. As a result, says Richard Whitman of the University of Kent, its policy in Europe resembles a “Polo mint”: it has a hard outer rim, and a hole in the middle.
In the long run, he says, the West must help Ukraine through a “doctrine of deterrence by denial. So that even without invoking the question of-compatible weaponry, training and intelligence sharing of such quality and quantity that no one will ever invade Ukraine again.”
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