I: Patrick Morgan   How embarrassing for Tom Switzer! The Russians, whose views he has recently been providing excuses for, have let him down. Just after he wrote in the October Quadrant that Putin’s “foreign policy has been reactive and defensive”, merely protecting his own borders, Putin has expanded his pattern of aggression by moving his military might into the Middle East, hardly part of Russia’s “near abroad”. And just when Switzer has written that Iran’s “capacity to overturn the international order is exceedingly limited”, Iran is sending troops into Syria to further destabilise a theatre of war not in…