Thank you for making this public, it’s such an important point to make and needs to be spread far and wide.

US policy at this stage is total chaos, policy makers struggling to make sense of the whims of a man-child. Boris Johnson’s itinerary as the pandemic started to spread is another example of what we’re dealing with. Hell will freeze over before these people take ANY interest in good policy.

That’s good to hear, I have family in Scotland who support the SNP and I thought Nicola Sturgeon was a great leader, was just concerned to hear in the other comment that Swinney met JD Vance. But I don’t know much about Swinney / what’s going in there so if I’m wrong on that that’s great.

At the end of the day I guess the SNP is a nationalist movement so it is particularly vulnerable with the wrong leader.

I definitely agree with that re: funding - but I think parties like the current iteration of the Greens and (in theory if it actually ever exists) Your Party which are rooted in a genuine ethical stance and grass roots activism will never be funded by billionaires. Eg Mamdani.

Oh no, really?? I was wondering about the SNP but hoping for the best….. a bit more work to do then.

Interesting and encouraging, if we divide into the two blocks Pro Billionaire Maniacs Running The World (LAB / LD / Reform / Tories) on 80% and Anti Billionaire Maniacs Running The World (Green / SNP / other) on 20% - so still plenty to do but moving in the right direction.

Quick question, how many wars has China been involved in in the last thirty years?

We can absolutely learn from that history in the current scenario. Work with our local allies and neighbours who genuinely care about the future of Europe - because we live here - rather than depend on an unstable US regime which is ambivalent about Europe at best.

Yeah who cares about history when it comes to foreign policy

The co-operation came far too late and with the wrong person! There was a window for a very different post - soviet landscape but the west went with Shock Therapy

My only point was that at this stage being anti NATO expansion is no more nonsensical than being pro NATO expansion. Wishing you, and all of us, better times in the future.

Post 1989 different actions were possible and would have had different results.

And actually that isn’t at all how uk foreign policy has been conducted - the war in Iraq happened against the grain of international opinion / against the wishes of the UN. It had a massive impact and contributed to the current crisis in international law.

As I keep saying that is not their policy! Their policy is to maintain current commitments and stay in NATO.

NATO should have been radically reformed post 1989 and Europe and the US should have given far more support to all of the ex soviet states.

Putin came to power because of the political failure of Europe and the US after the collapse of the Soviet Union. There is no easy fix for the current situation and the Greens would continue current commitments. But they aspire in future to establish peace through international co-operation.

Your faith in NATO is amazing! It’s effectively controlled by a guy who quite likes Putin.The Greens response to the current situation is push the argument for a negotiated peace as hard as possible. In the meantime remaining in NATO and respecting the existing commitments. That is their policy.

So what is a sound approach to take? NATO expansion? Anyway this has probably gone on long enough, thanks for replying anyway. Genuinely think we need to start taking the left seriously on foreign policy and debating in good faith because the status quo isn’t an option any more.