Commentary For the second time in my adult life a major shock seems to have made people serious about defence. It remains to be seen how serious. But like 9/11, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has blown away any number of comforting illusions. So now what do we do? In the short run we seem to be doing more, faster, and better than I had feared. I’m still not sure why “selected” Russian banks were turfed out of SWIFT and not the whole batch. There are times to ratchet up pressure and times to go all in… so to speak. So to speak because Western nations are also providing Ukraine with lethal weapons. And those of us who lived through the Cold War, which many thought unlikely at the time, recall that everyone used to exercise extreme caution, even the Soviets sometimes, because shooting wars could spiral into nuclear ones. …