Originally Posted by
Finningley Boy
So given vonder Leyen's track record you reckon Biden going out of his way to squeeze this round peg into a square hole is preferable to the UK Defence Secretary? I'm sure you can throw back the charge tht defence spending has continued to wither on the vine under Wallace, it did so while George Robertson was Defence Secretary, cast your mind back to SDR 1998. Its been down hill all the way since. So what makes George Robertson (I've no objections to the man and his time as NATO Secretary General by the way) a "top diplomat"? Is it simply because he didn't attract oprobrium?
FB
Would not have anyone from the ****show of our country at the moment remotely put foward to lead NATO. As for the SDR in 1998, the cuts also included commitments to modernisation and new equipment. Not the slash and burn we have seen in later Blue on Blue defence reviews.