Originally Posted by
Finningley Boy
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?!?!??
FB
UvdL as head of NATO? Surely not. Talk about failing upwards:
"BERLIN — A polyglot Brussels native who reared seven children and earned a medical degree on the side before storming to the top of German politics.News that this
Wunderfrau — aka German Defense Minister
Ursula von der Leyen — could become the Commission’s next president left European capitals abuzz on Tuesday. “Finally some good news” was the general tenor. Who needs a
Spitzenkandidat when you can have a Homecoming Queen?
At first glance, the affable 60-year-old minister with a camera-ready smile looks to be a perfect fit, with the requisite experience, political pedigree and personality to handle the EU’s toughest job.
And yet a nagging question remains: Is she too good to be true? In the German capital, the answer is clear..."