Liz Truss has a dangerously romantic view of wars!

The British foreign secretary, Liz Truss, believes it would be a wonderful idea for young Brits to get arms and go and fight the Ruskies on the side of the brave Ukrainians. Like it's the Spanish Civil War or something. First of all this is outrageously irresponsible. Second it's giving approval for people of this country to put their lives in danger. And third it's a statement that will and has already angered Moscow to a point where Dmitry Peskov, Putin's spokesman, claimed it was largely because of what she said that made Putin put Russia's nuclear weapons on high alert. Ok, that's typical Kremlin-talk. But it is still true that an inflammatory remark on the BBC by Truss has just exacerbated what was already a dangerous situation. I note that Ben Wallace, the defence secretary, increasingly looking and sounding like an intelligent, sensible, authoritative politician - so rare these days - advised absolutely the opposite and said Britons should not travel to Ukraine. Truss seems to think that fighting the Russians is some sort of romantic, glamorous game, like something out of an historical romance novel. Fighting the Russians, as the Ukrainians have discovered, is a brutal, lethal, every-minute-life-threatening business. It's not for the fainthearted and it's certainly not for the young Brit who fancies his chances of making a little bit of history for himself. Stay at home, as Ben Wallace has advised. This is a bloody war against a military superpower. So the Russian troops haven't yet fulfilled their leader's order to wrap it all up in less than seven days but I can tell you if it goes on much longer with such strong Ukrainian resistance, Putin will start bombing and shelling and destroying on a far larger scale until he achieves his objective.