> I am not entirely sure why you’d expect help from your neighbours given the above Because it's the human thing to do, honestly, I expect from my country's ne

> I am not entirely sure why you’d expect help from your neighbours given the above Because it's the human thing to do, honestly, I expect from my country's neighbours to have humanly feelings, so to speak. Only reading this latter comment of yours I realised that when you talked about help you most probably were talking about military (or something like that) help, in which case of course that the answer is more complicated. This risks getting OT but imo us paying that protection fee (because that's what it is) of 2% of our budget each year (now expected to pass to 2.5%) is fair enough. Don't see how we would be able to put up an army worthy of that name that would stand a Russian invasion almost all by itself. The money just isn't there, i.e. for us doing it all ourselves. Maritime/sea defence is very expensive, air defence is very expensive, the whole cyber-security staff is pretty complicated and, while we might have some people for it, we most certainly don't have enough. We should play to our strengths, and, to be honest, we're not strong enough to stand up against the Russians all by ourselves, we never were.