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STARMER and Europe demand U.S "security guarantee" for Ukraine
BBC ^ | Feb 17 | Keir Starmer

Posted on 02/17/2025 11:12:03 AM PST by RandFan

Breaking News..

He just said (on TV) there needs be an American backstop and a security guarantee so Russia "can never do this again" (paraphrasing) and Britain will contribute troops if there is a lasting peace agreement

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections; Russia; Ukraine; United Kingdom; War
KEYWORDS: frpottymouths; ukfightyourownwars; ukraine
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1 posted on 02/17/2025 11:12:03 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Dear EU

G_F_Y


2 posted on 02/17/2025 11:14:18 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: RandFan

LOL.
Don’t believe this is going to fly. US is not the world’s policeman.


3 posted on 02/17/2025 11:14:59 AM PST by JayGalt (Fight! Fight! Fight!)
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To: RandFan
Demand?

**Chortle**

4 posted on 02/17/2025 11:15:11 AM PST by RoosterRedux ("There's nothing so inert as a closed mind" )
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To: RandFan

Sure, we guarantee that if UK doesn’t like it they can commit their own troops and funds to fight Russia.


5 posted on 02/17/2025 11:15:51 AM PST by for-q-clinton (Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
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To: RandFan

Send your muzzies.


6 posted on 02/17/2025 11:15:54 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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To: RoosterRedux

Demand might be strong word but he essentially said “there HAS to be” ... So I inferred


7 posted on 02/17/2025 11:16:09 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

Uh....no.


8 posted on 02/17/2025 11:16:28 AM PST by Howie66 (America First!!)
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To: RandFan

They can’t demand anything.
Western Europe has sucked on American tax payer teats for over 80 years.
Time for them to take care of themselves.


9 posted on 02/17/2025 11:17:42 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: RandFan

Dear former Colonial Power

Piss off

We stopped giving a shit what you thought in 1776


10 posted on 02/17/2025 11:17:54 AM PST by 5Madman2 (Practicing random acts of Douchebaggery whenever possible)
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To: RandFan

Katie Hopkins says it for me...

https://x.com/KTHopkins/status/1891418477879067062

Warning: NSFW language.


11 posted on 02/17/2025 11:18:00 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: RandFan

12 posted on 02/17/2025 11:18:03 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MNJohnnie

Yup.


13 posted on 02/17/2025 11:18:11 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: RoosterRedux; All

Comments posted on BBC website right now:

‘There must be a US backstop’, says Starmer

Breaking

We can now bring you further comments from Keir Starmer who says there must be a “US backstop” after peace is secured in Ukraine.

Starmer says this is because a “US security guarantee is the only way to effectively deter Russia from attacking Ukraine again”.

Starmer says he will go to Washington next week to meet Trump and discuss “what we see as the key elements of a lasting peace”.

He says “we envisage a further meeting with European colleagues when I return from the US”, and he will speak to Zelensky in the coming days.

“We have to recognise the new era that we are in, not cling hopelessly to the comforts of the past. It’s time for us to take responsibility for our security, for our continent,” he says, adding he’s made it clear Britain will take a “leading responsibility”.

On Ukraine “we’re at the very early stage of the process”, he says, adding “Europe must play its role”, reiterating he’s willing to consider committing UK forces on the ground alongside others if there is a lasting peace agreement.


14 posted on 02/17/2025 11:18:25 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

F___ off, Limey!


15 posted on 02/17/2025 11:18:25 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: HYPOCRACY

See the link at my reply #11. :-)


16 posted on 02/17/2025 11:18:34 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: RandFan

When it comes to influencing the Russia-Ukraine War and the peace agreement that will follow.

The British Dog has a lot of ‘bark’ but not much of a ‘bite.’

“It wasn’t always so.”


17 posted on 02/17/2025 11:19:31 AM PST by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. )
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Wow. I paraphrased that quite well and we beat the BBC Website

Pleased with that effort

As for his comments.. He’s deluded..


18 posted on 02/17/2025 11:20:54 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

The UK should be worried about its own borders.


19 posted on 02/17/2025 11:21:46 AM PST by alternatives?
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To: RandFan

He’s the UK’s POTATUS.

No Deep State on the planet hires the front office appearance types for brains or competence.


20 posted on 02/17/2025 11:22:57 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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