Apart from its strategic value, the Ukraine supplies Europe with wheat, and the present war has cut off supplies. Already this has been felt here In London, an expensive city to live in at the best of times, but now food prices are soaring, especially for grain-based products. Prices are up at every supermarket visit. If this war continues for months, or drags out into another Afghanistan, Europe will need a new source for agricultural products, and hopefully will look towards Australia which should have been done in the 1960s instead of the Common Market nonsense. Apart from that, the war demonstrates the need for energy self-reliance, not to be dependent upon Russia. That will mean a fierce battle with the Greens and climate change fanatics, who are extremely powerful here in Europe.