Bret Devereaux

The main benefit of the UK's relationship with the US is that they could huff the fumes of empire and it's clear their establishment is just frantic at the prospect of losing thathttps://twitter.com/haynesdeborah/status/1432410630137524226 …

I think that's an apt analogy. I've been more than a bit frustrated that it seems like a number of our NATO partners wanted the US presence in Afghanistan to remain. But not, like, enough to have their own troops there.

Or enough to want to lay out the money to build the kind of military capabilities that would let them sustain that kind of deployment. I mean, the French needed US planes to operate in the Sahel, which is practically their backyard.