And I cannot forget that when David Cameron’s government was so schoolboyishly eager to give support to the rebels attacking the tyranny of Syria’s President Assad, a very senior British soldier friend said to me: ‘This is the first time in my career that I think the Russians have a point. They keep waggling their fingers and saying to us “be careful what you wish for”. They believe the anti-Assad jihadis represent a threat to us all, and they may be right’.