I'm just shocked that we've reached the stage that the AD radar cover for the UK has to be paid for by energy companies owned by the French etc...
It is called social progress. In the Dark Ages, neighbouring villages in the UK were bashing the heads in of each others women and children. Then trade links made villages mutually dependent - so they stopped fighting each other, and just fought the next county instead. Then we progressed just to fighting the Scots and the Welsh. After that, we started on the French. We stopped fighting the French a couple of centuries ago as our economies became linked, so we started fighting further afield instead. We are no longer fighting Russia, and the risk of that happening is less and less as trade increases.
I think it a sign of progress that the French private sector are now indirectly contributing to our national security.