The middle powers step in, to America’s detriment

Last week, British Typhoon aircraft escorted French Rafale multirole fighters in a first-ever Anglo-French airborne nuclear strike exercise, codenamed Exercise Rummy. My former boss, Donald Rumsfeld, would not have been amused; it did not include American forces. Instead, as London stated, the exercise “mark[ed] a major step forward in UK-France defence cooperation under the [2025] Northwood…

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