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UK troops to take on Nato duties in Poland and Estonia

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36739781

I am reading this as an attempt to use the NATO route to repair european relations...

yes, but consider that competing groups of different parasites also keep each other in check..
in the UK up to today you had the 1.government, 2. the house of lords, 3. the royalty, 4. the european...

I think you are exactly right....