air pig:-
The last 35 years of downsizing and so called peace dividends could be just about to bite us very severely in the backside and there is SFA we can do about it.
Well, we could start by stopping that downsizing and start rearming instead. As you say, Eastern Europe is a far off place of which we know little, but better to draw the line in the sand there now, before Putin is compelled to react to an unprovoked Polish attack upon one of his radio stations.
Putin can't afford to rearm either, but he is doing so anyway. The party is over I'm afraid. If you want peace prepare for war! You heard it here first. No? Well, it's as well to repeat it anyway...