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Britain rejects NATO plan for extra Ukraine military aid
The Telegraph ^ | May 24, 2026 | Joe Barnes

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.

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


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1 posted on 05/24/2026 5:39:50 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

“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


2 posted on 05/24/2026 5:45:38 PM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: MinorityRepublican

They want us to pay for it.


3 posted on 05/24/2026 5:47:56 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Red Badger

I liked the way Rush Limbaugh put it, “Kill people and break their things.”


4 posted on 05/24/2026 5:49:22 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: dfwgator

Bring back the Neutron Bomb!...............


5 posted on 05/24/2026 5:51:21 PM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: dfwgator

They have better thing to use the money for—like giving free room and board to the invading “migrants.”


6 posted on 05/24/2026 5:51:39 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: dfwgator

YEP


7 posted on 05/24/2026 6:01:07 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Britain, Britain and France, or Britain France Spain Italy and Canada, which is it?


8 posted on 05/24/2026 6:15:37 PM PDT by webheart (Notice how I said all of that without any hyphens, and only complete words?)
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To: MinorityRepublican

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


9 posted on 05/24/2026 6:33:14 PM PDT by chuckee
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To: chuckee

Poland should know how useless the Brits and the French are.


10 posted on 05/24/2026 6:42:01 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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