Posted on 02/01/2022 4:03:54 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
Britain, Poland and Ukraine are preparing a trilateral pact to strengthen regional security, Ukraine's Prime Minister Denys Shmygal said on Tuesday while hosting his Polish counterpart Mateusz Morawiecki in Kyiv.
Poland and Britain have offered security aid to Ukraine in its standoff with Moscow after Russia massed tens of thousands of troops near Ukraine's borders in recent weeks. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is due in Kyiv later on Tuesday.
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Not NATO?
Where’s the US in all this?
Hopefully far, far away.
A little over a century ago, it was Britain, France and Belgium.
Would be interesting to know how this links to bilateral security agreements between the UK and us. Boris might be stepping ‘in it’ here.
Eating the national dessert, tapioca pudding.
Yay. Half a league onward.
Supplying the weaponry. The Brits will have their own of course (with US F35s), but the US is slated to supply the Poles with 250 Abrams tanks and Patriot missile batteries and we're supplying Ukraine with a bunch of stuff already.
My guess is NATO will be augmented or replaced by an alliance stretching from the Finns down to Bulgaria.
It might be aimed at both Russia and Germany. A lot will hinge on what France decides.
The Brits seem to think he ran off to Ukraine to avoid PartyGate. No one in his own country seems too happy with him at the moment.
Britain? Poland? Anti-invasion pact? Where have I heard this before?
I wonder if the Commons will have to approve of any agreements he makes in Ukraine?
What could go wrong?
Shades of W.W. II, LEAVE IT ALONE
Yeah. That’ll work.
It’s getting to be like Hapsburg Europe all over again.
With the Germans doing their best to block help for Ukraine, I wonder if we will see the Unholy Alliance feared in 1939.
If they get involved in a shooting war with Russia on behalf of Ukraine, they have no right to claim the “I’m NATO and you have to join my war” card.
The History of Alliances in Europe (1815-2021): Every Year. Animated Map. 1:59 video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFHQIslWCis
For once the krauts doing something right.
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