Not gonna lie, that headline had me on the first half. I was getting mad up until the last three words.
Same. I started thinking “why, that stupid shit-for-brains…” and had to reel that in with the last few words.
::confused slow clap::
When it came to the Ukraine situation, he has, in general, not missed a beat.
The UK has given an impressive amount of gear to the Ukrainians given the size of the UK military, whilst everyone else was dithering and wondering what to give and how much to ensure they still had some stuff at home, the UK attitude was “give them all the things and we’ll worry about it later”.
Obviously countries like Poland had to be more cautious.
A lot of training and intelligence has been given to Ukraine as well. The UK continues to host Ukrainian troops for training.
The UK even made binding “boots on the ground” support agreements to Norway and Sweden in case Russia tried anything during their NATO membership process.
UK gave a bunch of Challenger 2 tanks with “do what you like with them” terms, not just “pwease don’t shooty shoot on Wussian tewwitory” nonsense. This was a token gesture as actually Ukraine really wanted the German stuff but it opened the door a bit to basically embarrass Germany into getting it’s act together.
As much as I don’t like the man, Johnson did well when it came to supporting Ukraine, and credit should be given where it is due.
And it’s so easily fixable too. “Boris Johnson calls to lift ban on Ukraine using”… etc. or just move “to be lifted” immediately after “ban”.
These limitations on Ukraine really need to be lifted. Ukraine needs freedom to attack the best strategic targets they can, whether they are in Ukraine occupied areas or in Russia. Since Russia annexed the occupied territories, there’s not a big difference anyway.
The only problem I see is that it’s escalatory. If Ukraine starts using Western-supplied weapons for offensive operations, this situation goes from supplying war material for defense (under-the-table proxy war) to full-on overt proxy war. Russia will spin this as “NATO is using Ukraine to attack us” (though they’re probably doing that already).
I can’t see how this won’t lead to a wider conflict.
I’m sure you’re right.
How do we use our understanding of that, and the way that they operate, to avoid a full scale war?
I’m not a fan of the guy but he had to say something sensible eventually.
I feel like he changed his mind when he saw how upset i was while reading through the first half
What a horribly written title
