Andrej Arpas
Economics, Europe
British trade with Europe suffers under even the sunniest projections.
“Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley’d and thunder’d;
Storm’d at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.”
Tennyson’s poem harkens back to Britain’s cavalry charge of October 1854, a year into the Crimean War. The result of misinformation, it was as poignant as it was senseless; they rode back, too, but not the six hundred.
Central Europeans have a saying that “Britain is always ready for war, but always for the last …read more
Source: The National Interest
