Putin beordrar styrkor att gå in i Ukraina - INVASION NU (2022-02-24)

/.../First, we must ensure that Ukraine receives weapons, equipment, ammunition and training more rapidly than the invader, and build up its capacity to use our help. Before this onslaught, British instructors trained more than 22,000 Ukrainian troops, an achievement that happened over seven years. Now we need to move faster, training that sort of number in months. So the UK plans to work with our friends to prepare Ukrainian forces to defend their country, with the potential to train up to 10,000 soldiers every 120 days.

Second, we must help preserve the viability of the Ukrainian state. President Zelensky’s government has to pay wages, run schools, deliver aid and begin reconstruction wherever possible. That will require constant funding and technical help, which we should plan to sustain for years to come. The EU has a vital role and I applaud the leaders of France, Germany, Italy and Romania for visiting Kyiv on Thursday.

Third, Russia has imposed a stranglehold on Ukraine’s economy by blockading its principal export routes across the Black Sea. We need a long-term effort to develop the alternative overland routes that already exist and ensure that Ukraine’s economy continues to function.

/.../And all serve one objective. We must strengthen the hand of our Ukrainian friends to finish this war on the terms that President Zelensky has laid out. That should be the definition of success. The Ukrainian people have been clear they will not be forced into accepting less than that.

In so doing, we and our allies will be protecting our own security as much as Ukraine’s and safeguarding the world from the lethal dreams of Putin and those who might seek to copy them.

Instead of grandstanding for the brave Ukrainians, Boris Johnson might care to devote a little time to confronting his own country’s many problems. Unfortunately for the rest of us, Boris Johnson seems concerned only for his own survival.
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Blah blah blah. Empty words and you have about as much credibility with your “friends and allies” in the west as putin does. Why would anyone trust or listen to a word you say?
Johnson, you are no statesman. You are just trying to use Ukraine as a diversion form your imminent by-election defeats.
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If we were still part of the EU though, our current isolated and distrusted country might just count for something on the world stage.
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Mr Prime Minister. The only thing you care about is yourself. Please do us all a favour - don’t hide behind the bodies of the gallant Ukrainians and do please resign without delay.
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Give it a rest and resign. Treating Ukraine as your new fridge to run into won't work - we all have memories which are too full of your other misdeeds, and some are very painful and bitter.
Odd that as a demoted leader you are now advised to go to Ukraine, twice now, the day after Ursula - that must sting.
There are a dozen others who could do a better job of both domestic and international leadership. Perhaps someone who doesn't lead by lying and lawbreaking, destroying trade and wrecking our own economy, changing inconvenient laws and threatening European unity at all levels through some deluded idea he is a statesman rather than the class cheat screaming because he has been caught out again.
That was a long sentence - but you do deserve one.