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It looks like Europe is about to enter the war in Ukraine.
UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has announced that plans to send “peacekeepers” into Ukraine have now moved into ‘operational phase’
According to Starmer, Putin’s response to the ceasefire is “not good enough” (!!) and he has added that European military leaders will meet as early as Thursday to discuss sending “peacekeepers” to Ukraine.
Remarkably he has also emphasised that any peace plan for Ukraine requires mandatory U.S. involvement.
Now at one level, the hubris shown by Starmer is quite stunning.
He is acting as if he is the leader of the Free World and that he is calling the shots over Ukraine. It is as if Donald Trump does not exist and the Putin is to remain the perpetual enemy. This is all fictional but it is lapped up by the legacy media and Starmer basks in public approval over the issue.
Yesterday, I talked about how globalism has relocated itself to the UK with the advent of the Trump regime in the USA and this is more evidence of my claim.
But there are some reality checks that we need to consider and the first of these that there are big questions if anybody wants to be part of Starmer’s military coalition!
Even the BBC reports that;
“Sir Keir’s coalition is a big, still somewhat nebulous undertaking, and there is clearly a great deal of work to be done before this ad hoc alliance is ready to take on something as complex – and potentially perilous – as keeping the peace in Ukraine. Sir Keir says the coalition is now bigger and that “new commitments” are on the table, though he did not spell these out.”
We know that the central idea of “boots on the ground and planes in the sky” has already been rejected by the likes of Italy and others seem nervous of going that far. There is also the small matter of ANY European forces located in Ukraine being totally unacceptable to Russia. Europe seems to assume that Russia will have to accept whatever it wants which is completely unrealistic.
The idea that the US MUST provide a security backstop has been explicitly rejected by President Trump yet the Europeans carry on as if this will happen.
Starmer remains viscerally hostile to Russia and Putin in contrast to President Trump who continues to talk up progress in discussions. It’s as if Europe, and Starmer, would prefer to keep the conflict going. Maybe that’s because that is precisely the European/NATO agenda – the forever war!
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