Rory Stewart

Because what they're going to do is attempt to perpetually degrade the military infrastructure and probably degrade the entire state structures and government structures around.

They would much rather have a failed, weak state that's not a threat to Israel than have a coherent nationalistic state.

I'm going to add in Boris Johnson.

Absolutely extraordinary.

I mean, Boris Johnson absolutely just out there again and again saying anybody who remotely questions what the US is doing in Venezuela or Iran...

is a lefty bedwetter.

Clearly, what we should do is get right in behind the US.

It's very interesting.

It's as though the right really wasn't talking about sovereignty at all.

One almost gets the impression that their worldview is they don't like being told what to do by the French and the Germans, but they want to be told what to do by the US and Israel.

Interestingly, I also think they're going to become increasingly pro-Modi.

You can see there's a Conservative MP representing a Harrow constituency who's just got this medal from the Indian government.

But I wouldn't be surprised if we don't find out.

I'm teasing them about being too pro-US, too pro-Israel.

I think within five years' time, they'll be knee-jerking to the Indian position on the world too.

I think we should be cautious because I think it's an exciting idea.

But remember that India was engaged in the extrajudicial killing of Canadian citizens on Canadian territory not very long ago.

And Modi has been on the absolutely, on a very weird side on the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

He's not been providing support to Ukraine.

He's been buying Russian oil like bilio, filling Putin's coffers.