Why are the SAS in Ukraine? And how Joe Biden's visit to Ireland finished off the 'Special Relationship'

This is Peter Hitchens's Mail on Sunday Column

 

Who decided to send British troops to Ukraine? What are they doing there? What would happen were they to be killed by Russian forces, or captured by them? And what was a British surveillance plane, capable of carrying 30 people, doing over the Black Sea last September, when a bungling Russian pilot almost shot it down, only failing because his missile was a dud? What would have happened if the missile had worked, and many British servicemen and ...