seen since the cold war. you're saying it's a good thing, but part of the end of history idea was that force would no longer be appropriate or needed and this has shown how wrong that was. well, yes, that's. .. just to be fair, i never said that history was somehow this automatic mechanism that went on despite the actions of, you know, individuals, we still have human agency and i think it's pretty clear that if people don't believe in liberal democracy, if they don't fight for it, if they don't constantly struggle for it, it's not going to happen. and that's, i think, a useful reminder to everybody. ok, so germany spending 2% of gdp on defence is a good thing... it's a good thing, definitely. ..because it's defending liberal democracy. when you talk about what this will all mean for populists, um... nicholas farrell in the spectator writes that, "the war puts the raison d'etre of most european right wing