A British member of parliament for the Labour Party, Emily Thornberry, might become her nation’s next foreign secretary — their equivalent of our secretary of state. So we should pay attention to what happened on Thursday, when Thornberry inadvertently explained that her prospective Labour government will be a proud puppet for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Led by Jeremy Corbyn, an avowed anti-American socialist who hates NATO and would unilaterally surrender Britain’s nuclear deterrent forces, Labour wants to replace Prime Minister Theresa May’s Conservative government come the next election, likely in 2019 or 2022. But on Thursday’s episode of the BBC’s flagship political roundtable show, Question Time, Thornberry repeatedly defended Russia’s lie that it is not preventing weapons inspector access to the site of a recent chemical attack in Syria.