The EU is at it again, prancing on the world stage, trying to be important. Its latest pronouncement being that it has a "crucial strategic interest" in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. Therefore, "we" should dosh out €350 million to help tide them over their little local difficulties. Now, there can be no dispute that the fate of these countries is of immediate importance to the likes of Germany and some of the eastern states, not least because of the gas supply and diverse other matters. And, in the general run of things, what happens in these countries is important. But it's not that important … not the UK, anyway.

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Yanks ain't got it no better.

It seems to me that the idea that 'the Government can do anything and make everything all right' is a form of arrested rational development at a level similar to 'my Dad's bigger than your's' say about 8 years old.
Oops, have I just proved Socialists are 8 yr olds? Er, sorry.

Gee I wonder where this "crucial strategic interest" was when the russian tanks were rolling?