A junior player we are
This need not be a
long blog, yet an interesting point to note. The United States, Australia, and
the United Kingdom entered an alliance and pact that left a submarine contract
arrangement between Australia and France dead in the water. [BBC News: Aukus: France
recalls envoys amid security pact row]
France recalled their
ambassadors to the United States and France but did not consider it necessary
to recall their ambassador to the Court of St James’s.
The reason given with obvious disdain as good as a typical English putdown, “France
considers the UK a junior player in the new pact, seeking a new world role
post-Brexit, and riding along on Uncle Sam's coat-tails.”
Making waves no
longer
It is normally
attributed to Napoléon Bonaparte that he considered England a nation of
shopkeepers, that same nation that once was an empire on which the sun
never set, Great Britain has been on a steady decline for over a century and
is now after Brexit being dismissed as a junior player by our neighbours across
the channel, that respectful consideration is a waste of diplomatic nous, the
contempt has been delivered with inaction.
The Britannia that
once did rule the
waves no more makes any waves to bother anyone on the international stage.
How indeed are the mighty failed and fallen by those who led that Brexit march,
we are treading the path of reduction with gusto, bluster, bombast, and
insignificance. Alas!