Originally Posted by
Diff Tail Shim
Would not have anyone from the ****show of our country at the moment remotely put foward to lead NATO. As for the SDR in 1998, the cuts also included commitments to modernisation and new equipment. Not the slash and burn we have seen in later Blue on Blue defence reviews.
Do bear in mind, Wallace, you could argue alongside Johnson, are both responsible for the fact that Zelensky is alive today and that Russia has sustained such a high level of attrition just to cling on to that eastern crescent of Ukraine. You cast your mind back to the early stages when the EU countries were doing their usual verbal condemnation of the latest outrage from the Kremlin etc, I don't think the Whitehouse was responding with any get up and go either to recall. Worse still, Scholz wouldn't allow, initially, RAF aircraft transporting the initial consigment of LAWs Rockets to stage over in Germany. Those LAWs Rockets decimated that Tank column, you'll recall, heading down an open road toward Kyiz, each tank Commander with a fist full of cards identiying Ukrainians to be murdered on the orders of Putin. They travelled along that open road as they didn't expect, just like the EU and US leaders, any kind of resistance. Perhaps there wouldn't have been but for the ****show back in 10 Downing Street. But I'm sure Biden's going out of his way and delaying Stoltenberg's retirement just to get von der Leyen in the top job is a wise choice eh?!?!??
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