Doesn't mean you're safe from them! At one point last year our government saw what Putin was doing and suggested it might be a good idea to beef up your defences a little. France screamed bloody blue murder for a month! They reckoned it was all a plot so you could rearm and invade them again.

Also, with the UK out of the EU, who else are the notoriously spendthrift French going to use as their piggy-bank now?