Blinken, Biden, Starmer, Macron et al know they’ve lost their war in Ukraine — as well as their electoral war in America — but want to exact as much vengeance on the victors as they can.

History students know that’s exactly how Hitler behaved with his V2 supersonic rockets in 1944 and the ME262 jet fighter although its development was left too late to be of much effective use.

The result of the Nazis’ protracted war, the outcome of which was inevitable, was millions of extra dead and maimed and hundreds of smashed up German cities that could have been spared.

History is being repeated but the consequences will be much worse.