Annexation for the right price
As deputy national security adviser Hugh Powell is the latest to discover, in the age of the zoom lens, they can be read easily. (It turns out there’s a freelance photographer who hangs around outside No 10, one Steve Back, who specializes in just such pictures.) “Britain will “not support, for now, trade sanctions … or close London’s financial centre to Russians.” In other words, even if Russia is in the process of invading a sovereign state (trending), Britain will still do nothing that might dent the profits of the money men in the City. Not that Britain is alone in this. Germany and France are looking out for their “strategic” industries, just like Osborne. Putin thinks and said it right “damages are mutual”.. Start the tune. [Guardian]
