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Andy Burnham, European leaders plan US trip to seek Patriot missiles for Ukraine - report
Reuters

Posted on 08/24/2026 5:56:04 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said he and other European leaders plan to travel to the United States in September to lobby US President Donald Trump to let Ukraine access some of its Patriot air defense missile stocks ahead of the winter, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing an interview.

"I'm looking forward to going to New York in September," Burnham told Bloomberg.

"I’ve not fully confirmed the details yet but it’s likely I will go, particularly after today’s discussion," Bloomberg quoted him as saying.

Ukraine independence celebrations marked by world leaders in Kyiv

The leaders of Britain and France pledged to provide Ukraine with stronger military support, including access to classified technology and faster deliveries of air defense missiles, at a meeting of allies to mark Kyiv's independence day celebrations.

Burnham, in Kyiv on his first foreign visit since taking office last month, urged the gathering of the "Coalition of the Willing" to "do everything we can" to bolster Ukraine's defenses against Russian air strikes.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had earlier praised the resilience of the Ukrainian people during more than four years of war.


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1 posted on 08/24/2026 5:56:04 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
America cannot give what it does not have.

America First !

We need to radically build our stockpile of weapons before SELLING anything to Ukraine or Europe.

2 posted on 08/24/2026 5:59:46 PM PDT by Newbomb Turk (earch )
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To: MinorityRepublican
The leaders of Britain and France pledged to provide Ukraine with stronger military support

By doing what? Asking the US to provide it?

3 posted on 08/24/2026 6:03:22 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: MinorityRepublican
Replay of the same crap from before. Change a couple of faces, and it's still the same drama.

The EU wants the US to be its weapons supplier, its nuclear protector, stage troops and materiel within its borders, and be its guarantor all the while its many previous years have been to NOT support the own responsibilities to alliances. Recall Starmer's response at the outset of the Iran conflict? Recall the UK campaigning against the Trump/Vance candidacy?

4 posted on 08/24/2026 6:07:07 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: johniegrad

That’s their thing. That’s what they do.


5 posted on 08/24/2026 6:16:10 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (There is no gravity. The earth just sucks. )
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

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6 posted on 08/24/2026 6:29:16 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

Are these European leaders also bringing a large check?

You know, if they hadn’t decimated their own military capabilities decades ago, they could produce and provide something similar themselves probably long before now.


7 posted on 08/24/2026 6:30:47 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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8 posted on 08/24/2026 6:30:59 PM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: dfwgator

I had planned on going with Bruce Lee

BUT that phone 📱 is on the charger 🔌⚡⚡⚡⚡


9 posted on 08/24/2026 6:34:16 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

We may need ours if Iran goes ape-crap (likely).

Ask these counties Germany, Netherlands,Greece, Poland, Romania, and Sweden, they have Patriots and they are not using them.


10 posted on 08/24/2026 6:40:20 PM PDT by bosco24
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To: dfwgator; Jane Long; TigersEye; Bikkuri; null and void; Nervous Tick

Keyword (not mine but LOL 🤣):

World War 11

World War Eleven

Wouldn’t this be:

World War 12?

World War Twelve?

World War 111?

World War One Hundred Eleven?

Asking for 58 I.Q. Democrat Ilhan Omar...


11 posted on 08/24/2026 6:40:28 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

Patriot missiles are not carbon neutral. It would be a mortal sin for us to provide the missiles and harm the Earth Mother Goddess Gaia.


12 posted on 08/24/2026 6:41:31 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: SaveFerris

WWZ


13 posted on 08/24/2026 6:43:42 PM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: Jane Long

Send in the British Navy!

Oh wait....


14 posted on 08/24/2026 6:52:25 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

Bring CASH!


15 posted on 08/24/2026 6:52:35 PM PDT by chickenlips (Neuter your politicians )
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To: packagingguy

(are not carbon neutral)

Not to worry

The United Kingdom is banning
Tumble Dryers to save da Erf
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16 posted on 08/24/2026 6:55:50 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
Euro-weenies: Why don't you design and manufacture your
own damn missiles and then hand them over to Ukraine?
What's stopping you from doing that?
17 posted on 08/24/2026 7:26:03 PM PDT by StormEye
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It is a huge investment and takes many years, and we don’t want to lose our manufacturing market to foreign made goods, there is already enough competition.

One problem with our shortages of Patriots for the world is that someone will come up with their own versions and steal our market.


18 posted on 08/24/2026 7:32:32 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: Newbomb Turk

“America cannot give what it does not have.“

>>>>>>>

That’s why Trump said he wants to give Ukraine the license so they can build the Patriots themselves.


19 posted on 08/24/2026 7:44:05 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE (Silence against evil isn't neutrality, it's complicity. Oppose the Iran-Russia-North Korea Alliance!)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

Are you against that America sells weapons to Europe ??
Aren’t you supporting America’s economy ?

Trump has always supported selling weapons to Europe.


20 posted on 08/24/2026 7:47:28 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE (Silence against evil isn't neutrality, it's complicity. Oppose the Iran-Russia-North Korea Alliance!)
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