The greatest disaster to emerge from the war in Ukraine would be a collapsed Nato. For the prime minister, Keir Starmer, to be signalling confusion over British missile use shows how much he still has to learn.
After more than two years, Ukraine's war has mutated from one of national independence into a proxy conflict, economic and military, of the west against Russia.
Now he wants to use British missiles to attack military targets deep into Russian territory. Germany has refused similar requests. The US, whose intelligence is needed for targeting, also says Ukraine cannot use its missiles to strike Russia.
Savage Russian reprisals were utterly predictable, with one raid killing at least 50 people, including army cadets. Such an attack enabled by a Nato state might not lead to a nuclear response, though with Putin in place anything is possible.
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