It looks as if the war in Ukraine will go on for many years to come. And this will not be an accident. It may even be what the West secretly wants. We know this from an startling remark on Friday by Tony Radakin, the interesting lawyer who has just stepped down as head of Britain’s Armed Forces.
Sir Tony gave an unwise interview with the BBC’s impossibly grand Nick Robinson, a man so unclued–up on foreign affairs that he actually referred to the Russian army as the ‘Red Army’, as if Soviet Communism had not collapsed 34 years ago.
Admiral Radakin would not have made such a mistake. He is right at the top of Britain’s defence policy elite. Not only does he have a law degree. He qualified as a barrister and then collected an MA in international relations and defence studies, while serving in the Navy. Indeed, he studied so hard it is amazing that he found time to go to sea. Yet he did. And he became the ruler of the King’s Navy.
