The UK needs to deal with its own vast problems and stop pestering Russia, a natural ally in the war on Islamic terror.
It would be disastrous and incredibly naive to not forge a strong dynamic alliance with Russia.
The US’s primary enemies in the post cold war world are not the nutty Islamists it’s the Russkies and the Chinese. Most of the Islamic stuff is proxy wars with the commies over oil. Darfur too.
“The UK needs to deal with its own vast problems and stop pestering Russia”
How is the factual acknowledgment by British intelligence that Russia has greatly increased its intelligence operations in the UK twisted into (in your mind) a matter of “pestering” Russia.
Maybe it is also (to you) mere “pestering Russia”, when the UK, Norway and Denmark (all NATO countries) announce recent increase in the number and frequency of incidents of Russian military jets intruding on their airspace; causing their defense establishments to intercept them and escort them out of the area?
You are dreaming. Look, we had somewhat of a partnership after 911 but in 2004 the US helped support the Orange Revolution of Ukraine. This was a mistake. The Ukrainians did not need our involvement and it turned Russia from a semi-ally to an enemy overnight. That’s point one. Point two is that Putin is KGB, brainwashed for life. Once we even slightly betrayed his paranoid mind it was over. Russia is an enemy now. They are finishing helping Iran build plutonium. Hydrogen bombs in other words.
Putin made peace with Islam last year. Did you miss that? Russia is more dangerous now as a wounded by healing, paranoid animal then they were as the Soviet Union. They cannot contain creating Frankenstein monsters (Iran/Syria)like they could during the Soviet years because they lack the resources. But creating them they are and now these Frankenstein monsters have nukes. Same with North Korea and China providing nuclear know-how via way of Pakistan. These countries are not our friends.