Where was this coalition of the willing three-plus years ago (actually, ten)? Three years have gone by during which the UK, France, and the EU nations could have built up significant military force to at-minimum, deter further Russian aggression. You can’t get a bigger wake up call than the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Russia is a great evil. Putin is Moriarty.
Yet, for the most part, nothing has been done. Nothing has changed. Any coalition of the willing today will now have to start from scratch and come up with 100-150 billion a year to arm the UK, France, and EU. I’m guessing it will take three plus years minimum. And that’s only if they actually do something this time (vs 2022).
It’s amazing that since 2022 the UK and France and other EU nations sat by and watched Ukraine get mauled while doing little but condemning Russia and sending Ukraine a few billion. As long as it wasn’t their country.. as long as the US was providing intelligence, funding it, and sending billions in military equipment and weapons, no worries.
I encourage readers to go back to the first thread and read the first 10 pages again to see the comments made by Stoltenberg, Macron, Boris Johnson / Sunak, Merkel/Sholtz, Erdogan, Trudeau and yes, Joe Biden.
-Stoltenberg: “a brutal act of war”
-Trudeau “to meet with G7”
-EU Foreign Affairs: “darkest hours of -Europe since Second World War”
-Macron: “France and its allies did everything to try to head off the attack on Ukraine”
-Macron: “We will show no weakness in our response”
-Boris: “our worst fears have come true”
-Erdogan “rejects Russian’s unacceptable military action in Ukraine”
-NATO to deploy more land and air forces
- West condemns
-UK summons ambassador
-Germany “promises to help with refugees”
-Biden: “Russian government will be held accountable for catastrophic loss of life and human suffering”
-Biden: “announces new sanctions..(but reiterated US won’t put troops on the ground)”
Imo Russia should have been blasted back out of Ukraine by the US, the UK, France, Germany, and the EU back in 2022. Instead, leaders (including Biden and US) virtue signaled to the left wing press and / or did nothing. For the most part, EU defense spending remained below 2 percent. All talk
The UK and especially the EU nations have simply refused to spend money for their own defense. Imo the EU is an economic union with a globalist socialist agenda, whose priorities place defense spending last. Dead last.
The US has by far been the biggest financial and military backer of Ukraine. The US has by far been the biggest financial backer of NATO. Yet the entire world (led by EU talking heads supported by left wing media) is vilifying the US after Zelensky refused to sign a minerals deal that would’ve provided at least some level of security for his country (more than what the EU has done in the past and is willing to do in future) going forward. That was the best he was going to get.
Ukraine is in Europe. Ukraine is not a member of NATO. What is wrong with this picture? Where have the UK, France, Germany, and the EU been? Where are they today? Pearl clutching and raging about a supposed new world order being created by the great satan US. Bull. There is no new world order. The UK, France, Germany and EU nations have simply been sleeping: shirking their responsibilities while playing in their globalist sand box for years. Wake up.
After the Biden administration added nearly 9 trillion (with a t) dollars to the US national debt, the US simply said: “We cannot continue to fund a forever war in Ukraine for 100 billion a year for a country that is not in NATO: the war needs to end; take steps to end it.” For everything we have given (and for what we were about to give) we were then disrespected on the world stage. The screeching by leftists who always think they are owed something continues.
Imo the US is the only nation who has tried to maintain world order. The US is the only nation who has provided sacrificial financial support to help Ukraine. Ukraine is in Europe. Ukraine is not part of NATO. The US said in 2022 they would not put boots on the ground. What has changed since then?
Where is/are UK, France, Germany, and EU nations - the socialist globalist central planners of EU? Imo some of their remarks sound remarkably similar to those they made back in 2014 and 2022. Imo UK, France, and EU needs to wake up, do what they can to support Ukraine (while US does the same), work to end the war, and stop bashing their greatest and strongest ally.
Jmo
