The article highlights how geopolitical tensions, especially from Russia, have forced Europe, particularly the UK, to rethink its alliances and focus on collaborative defense strategies. With Britain feeling isolated post-Brexit, the significance of relationships with neighboring countries has intensified. As a case in point, the author critiques the media's focus on trivial topics like fishing deals while overlooking the more pressing concerns of national security and defense spending, ultimately arguing that the economy should drive meaningful discussions and strategies.
Circle the wagons: Europe draws together confronting an enemy to its east and a rogue state to its west. Everything has changed, said the prime minister and chancellor, and so it has.
But talking about less important things was always the British way. So headlines and the Today programme bang on about... the fishing deal struck by Boris Johnson.
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