Vladimir Putin may have gained a certain spring in his step after listening to Lord Cameron this week. Britain, said the foreign secretary, wouldn’t be shooting down Russian killer drones over Ukraine in the same way that the RAF and the Americans knocked out the Iranian assault on Israel. In a world of bluff and brinkmanship some things should remain unsaid, and this was one of them.
The question, however, continues to nag. The wars in Ukraine and Israel have intersection points. The same Iranian-built Shahed 136 drones aimed at Israel at the weekend were also hitting Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine, since they have become part of the Russian arsenal. Indeed the Iranian design has been refined by Russian engineers as the result of two
