Posted on 03/26/2025 11:15:11 AM PDT by bimboeruption
While the default European position on purported leaked messages calling their defence policy pathetic freeloading has been outrage and despair, the United Kingdom accepts “the Americans have absolutely got a case” on lack of military spending on the continent.
Responding to alleged leaked ‘Signal’ encrypted messenger texts between senior Trump administration figures including Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Britain’s defence minister declined to join in outrage and say the messages have a point.
Speaking to Times Radio on Wednesday, Defence Minister John Healey said he found America’s new attitude that Europe must stop totally relying on America for its own security as a challenge to rise to. He said: “The Americans have got a case, the Americans have absolutely got a case that on defence spending, on European security, on our support for Ukraine, European nations can and will do more and the UK is leading the way.”
Healey repeatedly cited the so-called ‘coalition of the willing’ group of nations stepping forward to militarily support Ukraine, should the United States decide to stop doing so, as evidence that the United Kingdom is complying with President Trump’s wishes.
He continued: “We’re responding to that American challenge for European nations to do more to support Ukraine and we are… I’m proud we’re leading this coalition of the willing, to continue to support Ukraine just like we did through the war into the peace so they can secure their long-term future and ensure Russia never again invades Ukraine as a sovereign country.”
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WW1 and WW2 happened a long time ago. It's 2025. Y'all have to carry your own weight now. If you can't, your countries will cease to exist.
If NATO and the US are militarily strong enough to provide the kind of overwhelming deterrence we provided during the Cold War and the alliance is tight knit, then peace and security is assured.
Weakness and a lack of deterrence, however, is a provocative situation that makes NATO h huge danger, especially for the US.
If that weakness and lack of deterrence leads to a war the US can be drawn into a WWIII scenario by our NATO treaty obligations that could lead to nuclear weapons being used against America. This is exactly where we are heading with the Ukraine.
In fact, drawing the US into direct military action in Ukraine seems to be a primary goal of Zelensky and some of our NATO partners
There wouldn’t be a need for deterrence if Russia wasn’t a perpetually butthurt, delusional revanchist basket case that destroys every country it forces itself on.
Every country west of Russia that managed to pivot fully towards Europe without Russian interference has prospered massively.
Every country that didn’t (or couldn’t because Russia wouldn’t let them) - so ,Serbia and Hungary, Ukraine and Moldova - is dirt poor by comparison.
Compare Russian occupied Karelia, that now looks almost as derelict as Pripyat, to the towns only a few miles away that’re still in Finland. It’s absolutely obvious why Eastern Europe would rather suffer a scrofula pandemic than be dragged back into the toxic orbit of Muscovia.
Currently the UK has more admirals than ships!!!
They have only 25 or less operational tanks...
They have less than 50,000 combat troops...
‘Pathetic Freeloaders’
It’s how socialism works
European countries have had no problem fighting wars with each other without Russia.
Russia Russia Russia, will you people ever stop the non-sense?
It's complex and difficult to sort out what is real and no in this sad conflict.
So don't you think it's probably not a bad idea call a cease fire to put an end to the senseless slaughter and wanton destruction of Ukraine's difficult to repair infrastructure and economy while the big guys ponder the nuances deal with the complexity of ending this thing.
Not since 1945, really.
Since then, excluding civil wars on the European continent, most have been started or provoked by Russia to some degree. Just ask any country in the former Warsaw Pact.
Brits have responded to several wars of aggression started by others - for example Greece/Turkey, Iraq/Kuwait, Serbia/Kosovo, and Argentina/Falklands. Often because a coalition has asked us to get involved. Sometimes the UN, sometimes NATO.
Tony Blair was called America’s poodle because he went along with as almost every request from the neocons.
So it’s a bit rich painting us as the bad guys when we haven’t declared war on anyone before being attacked by them, since January 1942 - and the last war the UK “started” on its own initiative was in 1982 (because our sovereign territory was militarily invaded).
Your record is far worse than ours.
It would be a good idea if we didn’t know Russia is pathologically incapable of sticking to the agreement. If they don’t break the deal within hours, they move the goalposts within hours. Every. Single. Time.
Heck, the Caliphate is just around the corner…
>>>>Currently the UK has more admirals than ships!!!
They have only 25 or less operational tanks...
They have less than 50,000 combat troops...<<<<
Excellent video from Mark Felton Productions:
“The Navy With More Admirals Than Warships”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po9duwvipB0&t=112s&ab_channel=MarkFeltonProductions
‘Pathetic Freeloaders’
He left out “losers”.
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