General Sir Richard Shirreff: Trump’s craven appeasement of Putin spells danger for us all
The IndependentThere have been many words used over the past couple of days to describe the shabby deal Trump is planning to do with president Vladimir Putin. Not only must Europe and Canada recognise the long-term threat to transatlantic security posed by Russia, but under no circumstances should they accept America’s appeasement of Putin and abandonment of Ukraine. Thus far, European leaders – from Kaja Kallas, the redoubtable former prime minister of Estonia, now the European Union’s foreign policy chief, to Nato secretary general Mark Rutte and the UK’s defence secretary John Healey, have been unequivocal: no appeasement of Putin, no deal without Ukrainian acceptance and continued support for Ukraine. Nato and the EU, without America but in conjunction with Ukraine and other partners like Australia and South Korea, must design a strategy to support Ukraine and impose such unacceptable pain on Russia that Putin understands he can’t get his way. Europe is rich: the combined GDP of Nato’s European members is 15 times that of Russia, and together it has the resources to develop the military capability needed to meet its needs without American support.
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General Sir Richard Shirreff: Starmer is right, we need to put boots on the ground in Ukraine
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