Starmers "diplomatic triumph" turns into " awkward diplomatic moment"...
Posted by Ken Waldron on July 13, 2024, 2:32 pm
Oh dear... His uncle Sam must have told him to just shut the fuck up.
UK hasn’t allowed Ukraine to use Storm Shadow missiles inside Russia, MoD clarifies Zelensky appears to distance himself from earlier comments after source says no permission has been granted
By Tony Diver , US EDITOR ; Danielle Sheridan , DEFENCE EDITOR ; Daniel Martin , IN WASHINGTON and Joe Barnes 11 July 2024 • 4:06pm
Britain has been forced to clarify it has not given permission for Ukraine to use Storm Shadows to strike inside Russia in an awkward diplomatic moment for Sir Keir Starmer.
Downing Street said on Thursday, government policy “had not changed” regarding the deployment of the long-range missiles, despite comments from the Prime Minister that suggested he was loosening restrictions on how the missiles are used.
The British Government has allowed Kyiv to fire the missiles against targets in Crimea and mainland Ukraine since they were delivered last year, but has banned the country from using them to hit targets inside Russia.
Officials are concerned such a move would escalate the war, and could draw the UK into a conflict with Russia.
Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president – who has been meeting world leaders at Nato’s 75th anniversary in Washington – announced on Wednesday evening that he had been granted permission to use strategic cruise missiles in Russia.
Posting on X, formerly Twitter, Mr Zelensky shared a photograph of himself and Sir Keir, with the caption: “This morning, I learnt about the permission to use Storm Shadow missiles against military targets in Russian territory. Today, we had the opportunity to discuss the practical implementation of this decision.”
But that's unavoidable. In the absence of any moral perspective, in the absence of any understanding of the cause of the Ukraine/Russian war, in the absence of any understanding of the losses of Ukraine, in the absence of any reality in understanding Russia's capabilities or its "escalatory dominance", in the absence of any idea as to how to end this conflict with the absurd "as long as it takes", in the absence of any willingness to actually communicate with Putin and Russia, then every utterance of the politicians will make little sense and they'll be clutching at rhetorical straws to try and keep rescuing themselves.
on July 13, 2024, 2:32 pm