The situation is different in Britain, where Nigel Farage last week put the cat among the pigeons during an increasingly interesting British election campaign by saying in an interview that EU and NATO expansion had provoked the war in Ukraine. The outrage from the political-media class was almost more newsworthy than the claim itself, which has been made by Farage himself many times before, as well as by numerous American academics like John Mearsheimer and the late Stephen Cohen. This is because until this campaign no one in Britain was visible above the parapet discussing this: now there is both Farage and George Galloway. FVD, as we know, has made this argument for over two years, including in one-to-one exchanges between Thierry Baudet and Mark Rutte in Parliament. FVD International’s director, John Laughland, was interviewed by RT International after Farage’s intervention: he is sceptical that it heralds any sort of sea-change in the debate in Britain. In France, on the other hand, Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella have said quite firmly that if they govern the country after 7 July, they will not allow French troops to be sent to Ukraine. So maybe the edifice is starting to crumble after all.