Posted on 05/24/2026 5:39:50 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Britain and France have scuppered a proposal for Nato allies to spend 0.25 per cent of GDP on military aid for Ukraine.
Mark Rutte, the alliance’s secretary-general, this week conceded his plan wouldn’t be taken forward because it didn’t have sufficient support.
“I don’t think this one will be proposed,” he told reporters, without naming the opponents.
But now The Telegraph can reveal that the UK, France, Spain, Italy and Canada blocked the idea when it was floated in discussions for how to boost support for Kyiv.
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“The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labour. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.”
― George Orwell, 1984
They want us to pay for it.
I liked the way Rush Limbaugh put it, “Kill people and break their things.”
Bring back the Neutron Bomb!...............
They have better thing to use the money for—like giving free room and board to the invading “migrants.”
YEP
Britain, Britain and France, or Britain France Spain Italy and Canada, which is it?
Good luck to Eastern Europe with this band of reluctant no action, talk only Western European NATO allies when the US leaves the pack to focus on their real vital national security interests
Poland should know how useless the Brits and the French are.
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