Thinking back to Ben Franklin, we saw society moving in the right direction for the last 500 years because of our commitment to science, human rights, etc., and that seems to be at the very least slowing down, if not reversing. Braun said he blames government for this state of affairs - pointedly 'the inability of government to continue to make the progress we saw from the enlightenment.'
If anything happens to them, or to the gas interconnector, the economy wouldn't last ten days. So are you saying we shouldn't cooperate with Britain to protect the gas interconnectors with the United Kingdom? That we should just ignore it? Are you saying we should ignore all of our European partners and protecting undersea critical infrastructure, such as subsea cables, such as the interconnector with France that will be completed in the next year?