Posted on 01/17/2025 7:39:14 AM PST by delta7
UK’s Keir Starmer is eager to sign a 100-year partnership with Ukraine to strengthen security in the Baltic, Azov, and Black Seas and increase economic and cultural ties. The pact will ensure that the UK is obligated to support Ukraine regardless of who comes to power after Starmer. A Russian drone strike targeting Kyiv amid Starmer’s meeting with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky strengthened their resolve.
“For me, that drone attack is just really a reminder of what Ukraine is facing every day and a reminder that this war is brought about by Russian aggression,” Starmer told reporters at a press conference in the Mariinsky Palace. “Putin’s ambition to wrench Ukraine away from its closest partners has been a monumental strategic failure,” he added, saying that their partnership has been brought to “the next level.”
Starmer committed £40 million to TIGER (Triggering Investment Growth and Economic Resilience), an economic recovery fund intended to help small and medium businesses in Ukraine. This comes on the heels of London providing £12.8 billion in aid, with £7.8 billion directed toward military assistance.
The UK will also boost its Grain Verification Scheme to track stolen or destroyed grain from occupied territories. The program was created based on the former Soviet government’s seizure of grain from Ukraine in 1932-33, which led to widespread famine and the deaths of nearly 4 million people. The Soviets starved their own people during that period as Communism failed, which is why Yeltsin handed over Russia to Putin to prevent the old oligarchs from reverting back to failed policies.
Ukraine believes this partnership will help it fast-track its way into the NATO alliance. In recent days, nations like Poland have been recklessly calling for Ukraine to urgently join bloc, which would IMMEDIATELY begin the next world war. Everyone is keen to aid Ukraine in its war efforts but no one is willing to speak with Putin directly or discuss what actions must be taken to bring about peace.
It is of no coincidence that NATO nations are calling to raise funding and strengthen ties with Ukraine as Donald Trump comes to power. The UK and Germany are Ukraine’s top supporters behind the US. There is no plan for the war effort to wane or for peace to be presented as an option. It is interesting how, during the last world war, the UK under Churchill was the one to help push the US to join the effort. Alliances have been cemented, and Russia is keenly aware that they are soon to be at war with not only Ukraine but nearly the entirety of the West.
I thought it was wishful thinking that the UK or Ukraine will still be around in 2125. Good Luck Guys!
Good, let them pay for the war. We’ll see how fast that pact dissolves when the bill comes due.
What a travesty.
1939 all over again - “Attaboy Poland, show Hitler what for. We guarantee your independence”.
News🔥: Today PM Sir Keir Starmer is in Kiev pledging 100 years of his support for Ukraine along with billions into unknown bank accounts.
Conversely last July, he gave three butchered little Southport girls 7 seconds of his precious time. pic.twitter.com/xG3DHkvTdM— Herd Immunity News🇬🇧🇺🇸 (@HerdImmunity12) January 16, 2025
I don’t think the UK is in any position to give anyone security. Without US money the UK and EU flounder. Time to walk away from this whole mess.
We know Deep State puppet Joey was Volodymyr Zelensky’s Daddy.
Who does Starmer think his Daddy is?
NATO?
If true, I guess they really have the same Daddy.
But now, Trump comes along.
This Starmer-Zelensky bromance may be short-lived.
Not quite there yet, but close.
The UK is but a sad shadow of its former self. Out of curiosity I looked it up.
British army: 74,000 soldiers
Brazilian Army: 235,000 soldiers
Maybe Ukraine should ask for a security guarantee from Brazil instead.
Two Tier Kier won’t be around in another year, much less 100 Years.
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
“Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!” he said.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
A good time for the Argies to take the Malvinas.
I don’t think Ukraine has existed as a defined autonomous state for 100 straight years in its history.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy must not be pressured by world powers into accepting a bad peace deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told his top team of ministers on Tuesday.
“He said it was vital that President Zelenskiy was not pressured into accepting a bad peace, noting that bad peace deals do not last. He said the world must avoid any outcome where Putin’s unwarranted aggression appears to have paid off,” the spokesman said.
Their army is the smallest since before Waterloo with 129K total members of the UK Army, Navy, Airforce AND reserves combined.
They have a total of 157 tanks able to operate within 30 days notice, with one ship capable of transporting them and other equipment outside the UK
Their aircraft carriers can't sail due to mechanical difficulties, and besides, they don't have any airplanes for the carriers.
UK official debt is now over 100% of GDP, and like the USA, with agency debt and off-book debt much, much higher
Starmer is really in "last gasp" phase of 20th century British socialism and state power.
By 2028 the UK will be the 52nd state after Canada.
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