Originally Posted by
Fortissimo
Putin will be very happy to hear that Liz Truss has confirmed what Ben Wallace suggested to the Spectator a few weeks back, ie that the UK would in all probability not fight.
I thought that was well established to the point of being an accepted fact for some time.
The whole world has been left in no doubt that if Russia marches into Ukraine then it will only be the Ukrainians directly opposing them.
What happens thereafter - well sanctions and presumably increased military spending in the west.
Russia has benefitted from the reduced military spending post 1990. If it marches into Ukraine then it has to ask itself whether it feels that it really wants to deal with a reinvigorated NATO and greater EU militarisation.