Wars occur when we can no longer summon the reason, understanding, and effort necessary to avoid them. There are now very real concerns that a Third World War may develop out of similarly irrational conditions.
SECRETS AND LIES SERIES
Just as that conflagration had been the result of a series of unbreakable international pledges, its sequel conversely erupted from the breach of another set of diplomatic promises. As every student of European history knows, the First World War was the unforeseen outcome of a structure of defensive military alliances designed to prevent such a conflict from ever taking place. The price we pay for internationalism lies in the hazardous complexities which that approach involves. Just because Britain believes it has the God-given right to get involved in other countries’ politics does not mean that it’s happy for those other countries to try to involve themselves in its own. That leader’s words may yet eventually rebound with unforeseen consequences. Under such circumstances, it is extraordinary how decisively a nation’s sympathies can shift. His view that Johnson’s survival was ‘great news’ hardly captured the mood of the British public.ĭiplomacy is a fine art, and no country likes the thought of foreign interference in their internal affairs. This attempted intervention in Britain’s domestic politics was not particularly welcome or well judged. That same day, the president of an embattled Eastern European nation currently enjoying an ad hoc military alliance with the UK announced that he was ‘very happy’ that Boris Johnson had remained in power. The day after the vote, a former Conservative leader wrote in the right-wing Times newspaper that Mr. It’s simply that he is a profoundly dishonest and dishonorable individual, and that his lack of integrity is poisoning all the fundamental decency out of British public life. He’s not even particularly financially corrupt, certainly not when compared to some of his predecessors and his colleagues. It’s not that he’s a warmonger or a zealot. He seems constitutionally unfit for the responsibilities of high office. Earlier this month, the British Prime Minister survived a vote of no confidence from his parliamentary party in which more than forty percent of his own Tory MPs demanded his resignation.īoris Johnson is almost certainly the worst Prime Minister that the United Kingdom has ever been forced to endure.
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