Col. Hamish de Bretton-Gordon OBE

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I mean, that is a real, you know, you can just see people in the Kremlin sort of going, flip an egg, yeah, they are serious.

And that's the sort of thing that we should do.

So I think it's been collective responsibility in European NATO countries and its focus.

And the defence investment plan, although I've criticised it, it is at least going in the right direction.

We're at 2.6% of gross domestic product now.

allegedly going to 3.5 by 2035.

If we were going to 3.5 by the 2030, I'd say we're on track.

But we are going in the right direction.

And one can see, I mean, sitting outside Parliament, you almost feel the heat of their breath on the back of your neck.

Unfortunately, their big focus is on the next election, which is two years' time.

What's going to get them re-elected?

And my experience of politicians, most of them are pretty insular and pretty selfish.

So at the moment, well, possibly at the moment, defence might get them elected.

But until now, that hasn't been the case.

It's not until the security service, MI6 and others say we're in a hybrid war with Russia.

We see Russian jets dropping sensors around British Navy ships this week.

We see Russian proxy drones.

GRU agents firebombing the Prime Minister's house.

We see cyber attacks, shadow fleet tankers.

Suddenly people are going, hang on, maybe there is a thing about this.

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