Posted on 12/15/2025 3:03:19 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
A peace deal between Russia and Ukraine will fail unless it is backed up by “robust” security guarantees from western powers, the UK prime minister has said.
Keir Starmer, speaking ahead of talks with European leaders in Berlin, told MPs on Monday he was opposed to any agreement that did not include sufficient military guarantees for Ukraine, as Kyiv comes under mounting US pressure to sign up to a Trump-backed plan.
Starmer said: “European history is full of peace agreements that failed and sometimes led to even greater conflict. And that is why it’s really important we attend to this in detail. Putin has shown time and again that he will keep coming back for more if he sees the chance.”
He added: “Peace agreements fail, in my view, predominantly because there aren’t sufficiently robust security guarantees behind them – which is why the French president and I set up the coalition of the willing … to put in place guarantees from the coalition-of-the-willing countries in accordance with and alongside the US.”
In a separate speech on Monday, Blaise Metreweli, the head of the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, said Vladimir Putin was “dragging out negotiations” over Ukraine, in keeping with the spy agency’s long-standing assessment that the Russian leader was not serious about ending the war, except on very favourable terms to the Kremlin.
She accused Putin of engaging in “historical distortions” while insisting that the UK’s support for Ukraine would be enduring, because “it is fundamental not just to European sovereignty and security but to global stability”.
Starmer was speaking to parliament’s liaison committee hours before he was due to board a flight to Berlin for dinner with the leaders of eight European countries, as well as those of the European Commission, the EU Council and Nato.
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Then the UK can give them and expect no help from the US then...
The Davos/London globalists want to rope Ukraine into NATO, and thus tie the USA to the consequences of their actions in Ukraine.
Just say NO.
Sounds like a job for Super Keir!
I don’t think the NATO countries know exactly what they’re looking for. I sure as heck don’t.
guarantees are not worth the paper they are written on. Ukraine already had promises about security in return for giving up their nukes.
But everyone screwed them over as soon as Russia attacked.
Starmer, you ain't sh*t, walkin', flyin' , or crawlin'.
Over here with your guarantees.
Security guarantees are what forced Britain into WWII and helped ignite a global war.
The same can be said about WWI as well .
I’m 100% opposed to American providing any kind of military security guarantees to intervene in any future conflict with Ukraine and Russia for obvious reasons .
Both Russia and the Ukraine are completely irresponsible and untrustworthy and both the Ukrainian government and the EU seem to spoiling for a war with Russia
Ukraine is doomed if it employs NATO troops in what’s left of it.
There was no scenario where Russia was going to allow Ukraine to keep nukes after the Soviet Union ended. That was ever going to be an option.
There was no scenario where Russia could have done squat about the nukes then. Because... Ukraine had nukes, and they would have just said, attack us... and we use our nukes.
Now they dont have that option and security promises were worthless. No other country will ever give up their nukes in the future because of what happened here.
Good, America is out then.
Makes sense to me. Britain claims to be a nuclear power right?
Ukraine with nukes was an absolute national security threat to Russia that Russians weren't tolerating.
The EU says they won’t do anything without us...but they keep on doing...and kissing “Z”s ......
Ukraine has 1900 nuclear warheads in 1991 out of about 30,000 total that Soviet Union possessed. Do the math.
Commie says what?
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