David Cameron will discuss strengthening Ukraine’s defences and finances against further Russian aggression with European partners in light of the continuing threat of the US Congress refusing to provide further financial support.
The foreign secretary is due to visit Bulgaria and Poland before meeting a host of European foreign ministers at a security conference in Munich on Friday.
The UK has not abandoned hopes Washington will agree to extra aid, and believes the Biden administration has the leeway to provide some aid regardless of Congress.
But Lord Cameron will raise how the European countries, including Poland, can increase defence production and accelerate plans to hand Ukraine the windfall profits from Russian assets seized by Europe.
I am not aligned to Cameron’s politics, but support the Ukrainian effort on principle. Unfortunately, the same principles don’t seem to apply to the significantly greater atrocities in Palestine.
I really hope I’m wrong but it seems that the only thing that has engaged you on Lemmy regarding the Russian aggression (rape, torture, mass execution of civilians etc) on Ukraine is that Cameron doesn’t act the same way Israel/Palestine as he does with Russia/Ukraine?
If that’s the case you’re what the Russians call “an useful idiot”.
Deal with it now, don’t be a Neville Chamberlain
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David Cameron will discuss strengthening Ukraine’s defences and finances against further Russian aggression with European partners in light of the continuing threat of the US Congress refusing to provide further financial support.
But Lord Cameron will raise how the European countries, including Poland, can increase defence production and accelerate plans to hand Ukraine the windfall profits from Russian assets seized by Europe.
Switching his gaze temporarily from the Middle East, he will visit Bulgaria on Wednesday and the newly elected government in Poland on Thursday in the run-up to the anniversary of the Russian invasion, and a G20 foreign ministers meeting in Brazil next week.
More European countries are expected to make bilateral security commitments in the next fortnight, a sign of continued support that is balanced by the growing threat of US isolationism.
At a meeting with fellow leaders in Munich the foreign secretary intends to focus on European defence production and the unique moral case for seizing the profits derived from frozen Russian assets.
Cameron, unlike one of his successors as prime minister, Boris Johnson, unambiguously regards Donald Trump’s possible election as US president as a threat to Ukraine and Nato but is intent on trying to influence the Republican party so its current isolationist mood can be tempered.
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