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Security analyst Ed Arnold, who works on European security issues for the British military think tank RUSI, sees a joint foreign policy leadership role for Great Britain and Germany beyond the EU institutions in Europe.

Burcu Ozcelik, a senior research fellow for Middle East security at Royal United Services Institute, a London-based think tank, called the move a potentially “hugely significant and historic turning point”.

It does appear that the pace of airstrikes and in particular airstrikes close to nuclear command assets in Pakistan may have played a role in major powers that this had gotten too far out of control."