Quote Originally Posted by Montmorency View Post
But this is a broad overview of regional characteristics and trends, not an argument for specific British interests and what strategy and resources could or should be deployed in their maintenance (from which we could then extrapolate in assessing the viability of CANZUK).

A string of hard-left governments in the United States are potentially what could reverse that tide and reinvigorate the European left. ....
I put forward that scenario not because it's likely or foreseeable but because I also believe it's the only path for left-wing reforms to succeed. Yes yes, how typical of me to feel that America is the world's only hope, but if it isn't Russia, China, or India (too autocratic and insecure), and Europe will follow America's lead but not vice-versa - then who?
It doesn't.
But it seemed a perfectly adequate answer to the question you posed:
"What interest or capacity does the UK have in projecting power in the Pacific independent of the US, is the big question."

It's an interesting hypothesis, but it does not adequately demonstrate that there is anything remotely similar in the congruence of interests, aims and expectations between NA and Europe vis-a-vis the same calculation made for CANZUK countries.