The UK’s security now needs vital reappraisal.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a press conference following a special meeting of Nato leaders in Brussels, Belgium.
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The allies said what they would send to keep Ukraine in the fight — $800 million worth of missiles and ammunition from the US, and 6,000 anti-tank rockets from the UK. Some 40,000 troops will be deployed to Nato countries in the east.
More to the point is what the US and Britain are saying they won’t do, for fear of getting themselves into a head-on fight with Putin and his legions. The CIA, we hear from Washington sources, won’t go in to train Ukrainian forces for a guerrilla insurgency, even if the Russians batter their way into eastern Ukraine’s cities. There will be nothing like the CIA operations to help the Mujahideen drive the Russians from Afghanistan in the Eighties. This seems bad tactics — declaring that you’ll negotiate with a weak hand. Like the US, the UK Government seems set to take a minimalist approach. Yet the implosion of Ukraine and a widening war across eastern Europe would hit the whole region, the global economy, and our energy and food security.
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