At war with Russia (but we don’t know it)

'The risk is that a lack of joined up thinking from the UK on Russia – and vice versa – will create a more precarious environment with plenty of scope for misunderstanding. The prospect of accidental escalation and military confrontation with Moscow is high and without careful management, risks becoming uncontrolled.' – Emily Ferris, a Senior Research Fellow at RUSI, argues that the UK's military and political support of Ukraine – and role as a convening power of the Coalition of the Willing – have earned it an outsized role as Moscow's enemy.