Aliramone wrote:
I don't disagree but isn't that a different issue.? We are providing support for Ukraine they are bound to 'thank us' and 'take note'.
However us 'telling' or even suggesting another country changes it's behaviour because we don't like it is another matter surely.
I've already said we don't have that sort of power any more; we haven't since Aden. The UK cannot just act unilaterally.
But it is also not true that the UK is some random country, no more important than say, Italy, or Greece, in world affairs. It is, and we should leverage that. There are times when speaking up, either alone or as part of "the West" that our voice is valued.
Ukraine's admiration of the UK goes beyond thanking and taking note, for example. It is not just a transactional relationship. Germany provides a lot of military support now to Ukraine but because they had to be embarrassed into doing it then the political relationship is quite different.
Brexit damaged the UK's position on the world stage but not so much that we are just some third rate backwater in foreign affairs.