Johnson’s imperial bombast could suck Britain into more deadly interventions | Simon Jenkins

As tensions with Russia and China increase, the prime minister meddles in foreign policy to distract from domestic woes

Relations between the world’s great powers are tenser than ever since the cold war. Troops are massing along Russia’s border with Ukraine. Chinese ships and planes are openly threatening Taiwan. Japan is rearming in response. Turkey is renewing its belligerence towards its neighbours. Russia is backing east-west fragmentation in Bosnia.

Where Britain stands in all this is danger...