Apologies but I’m bound to state the obvious now the West’s emperor’s new clothes of liberalism have, in parts, been proven wanting by President Putin. We are witness to a gargantuan failure of Western grand strategy – a West so long wrapped up in its own hubris and sophistry. We have been presented with clear and repeated warnings: Chechnya (1999– 2000), Georgia (2008), Syria (2014–18), Crimea (2014) and even brazen attacks on British soil (Litvinenko (2006) and the Skripals (2018)) resulting in British citizens’ death or life changing injury. I regret I’m as bad as others, or have at least t…
