As if to highlight Jamie’s point on the primacy of geopolitics, Ukraine managed to sneak a bunch of drones into cargo containers and then use them to take down fully one third of Russia’s long-range nuclear bombers. Some analysts are calling this a Russian Pearl Harbour (which might gloss over how the USA responded after the attack on Pearl Harbour) but the event surely highlights the changed nature of modern warfare, and the extent to which small and cheap can defeat big and expensive. We might have learned that lesson after rag-tag Houthis managed to confound the assembled forces of Western capitalism in the Red Sea, or after the war in Afghanistan took twenty years to replace Taliban with Taliban, but here it is highlighted for us once again.