Hi Tim,
I agree with the points you make.
I wonder if it is now too late to go back to the position of Russia's pre-2014 annexation of Crimea and invite Putin into the NATO fold. Obviously, he was keen to take this route at the time and was bitterly offended when it was closed off, presumably with the US influencing the decision. Now Trump has little interest in NATO and Europe and seems hell bent on creating a neo-US Empire in the Americas. So maybe it is time to look at the UK and EU reducing links with the US and looking to new strategic and trading links with Russia and the other BRIC countries leaving Trump to wage his narco wars on South America to no doubt further enrich his personal coffers.
If you take this further, the combined strategic power and trading assets of the UK, EU, Russia and possibly China would certainly equal, if not surpass, that of the USA and would minimise the damage Trump can wreak during his remaining three years of power. This is a radical approach but if Putin could be persuaded to abandon his unattainable fever dream of recreating the USSR by the piecemeal annexation of Eastern European States and take a more pragmatic approach to making Russia an economically successful state through trade with Europe, with the bonus of marginalising Trump. This might be an attractive solution to him. Of course Trump would probably react by blowing the world to Kingdom Come just out of pique at being snubbed.
As they say we live in 'interesting times'.
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