if the eu's aim is to avoid cooperation, thomas kielinger, as a european, as a german, what do you makeanguage? i've long given up to try to ferret out what goes on in the mind of some of our leaders, and this phrase is totally puzzling because she seems to hold hostage the british security involvement in europe to the outcome of the brexit talks, and she is in no way to speak that language. she needs to work for flexibility, for cooperation and so forth, and any intimation of trying to demand something or else is totally misplaced. she is on a very sticky wicket, as we know, and there's no consensus and jury, and we're still waiting, as they said yesterday, for what the british people really want — british government, rather. she's not frustrated, but curious. and so all else should be immaterial on the huge overriding issue — will we get a mutually agreeable agreement on the brexit conditions? and until that has been sorted out, there's nowhere for her to threaten british cooperation, europe. besides, the whole speech about security is beside the point. so it's a distraction? it's a d