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Line 55: Soon after [[Rishi Sunak]] became Prime Minister, Jenkins wrote that his aides were "young, sneakered, tieless image-makers, and fiercely loyal to him." They were "special advisers, thinktanks and lobby groups isolated from the world outside."<ref name=guardian-20221107>{{cite news \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/07/rishi-sunak-margaret-thatcher-wise-advice-backbenches \|title=Rishi Sunak has surrounded himself with yes-men. What he really needs is a Willie \|last=Jenkins \|first=Simon \|newspaper=The Guardian \|date=7 November 2022 \|access-date=5 March 2024}}</ref> In March 2024, Jenkins wrote critically of [[NATO]]'s growing ~~reckless~~recklessness in the [[Russo-Ukrainian War\|conflict in Ukraine]] as it "reached predictable stalemate", fearing the war would "run out of control". Jenkins argued that Western Europe had no interest in escalating the war by supplying longer-range missiles, and its interests lay in seeking an early settlement and rebuilding Ukraine. He argued the "crass ineptitude of a quarter of a century of western military interventions" should have taught us lessons to be applied in this conflict.<ref name=guardian-20240305>{{cite news \|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/05/nato-ukraine-russia-germany-military-leak \|title=Nato is growing reckless over Ukraine – and Russia's German military leak proves it \|last=Jenkins \|first=Simon \|newspaper=The Guardian \|date=5 March 2024 \|access-date=5 March 2024}}</ref> ===Books===

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