it's so easy to dictate terms from over the channel or over the...

it's so easy to dictate terms from over the channel or over the Atlantic. Because it's not your people that are going to DIE.
And when I say ' your people ' , that doesn't really mean much these days.
Because countries are no longer like countries. And the leader of the UK or Ukraine is not like the leader of a tribe.
These modern leaders don't have the feeling like in an Idian tribe