Rupert Lowe MP@RupertLowe10
Foreign regime change through military intervention is not a strategy that has served Britain, at all.
Many British men and women have needlessly died trying to achieve that.
Restore Britain’s position on foreign affairs is absolutely clear - we will act when, and only when, Britain’s interests are being protected. And this can only be done after years of rebuilding and rearming.
Our depleted Armed Forces are in no position to fight, nor intervene - the capacity simply is not there. We don’t have enough soldiers, bullets, tanks, jets or missiles. Nor even a functioning economy...
The Americans are in a very different position to us, they are operating on an entirely different level. Their decisions are their decisions. We must accept the honest truth that our military has been brutally hollowed out, our economy is failing and our country is crumbling away. That must come first, every time.
This all applies to Ukraine, Iran or wherever else. We should support where possible, and apply pressure where effective - when that makes strategic sense for British interests.
But we are simply not in a position to act militarily, and when Britain itself is in such a dire state, nor should we.