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Jan. 3—The British colonial playbook is fairly predictable. If a war they launched is in danger of winding down or moving towards negotiations, they blow the situation up with the most offensive geopolitical provocation imaginable. They taunt their enemy and use targeted violence to try to force him to retaliate in kind.

The escalation of conflicts into war is a staple of British geopolitics; the modern form of permanent war is the neocon Wolfowitz Doctrine.