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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHigh marks to Boris Johnson on the question of weapons to Ukraine
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Boris says we dont need another trigger, the senior government source added. He [Putin] has already crossed the line ... Whatever Zelensky asks for he will get, if we have it.
President Zelensky has called for the West to supply Ukraine with anti-ship missiles, including Harpoons, which are used by the Royal Navy. US officials last week signalled that the issue was being discussed by Nato members.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/70688f70-b29f-11ec-b03d-8bd1be808b51?shareToken=ec5a88a1b78fbbbec2cce915026319ec
I dont know about you, but Im feeling sufficiently provoked.
dchill
(38,320 posts)marie999
(3,334 posts)Igel
(35,191 posts)There was pushback over Su and MiG planes. "No" was a bad answer. I'm sure Blinken didn't like being immediately told he was wrong--he probably thought he was correct.
So S-300s? "We'll discuss it." 2 weeks later, Russia's flying 300 sorties a day and bombing all over the place, killing civilians? "Not out of committee." S-300s would cut down on the dead. Can't do that. We must discuss things as civilians are killed.
Anti-ship missiles? "We'll discuss it."
Armor, including tanks? "We'll discuss it."
They won't say yes and don't want the political fall-out of saying no. "It's in committee. Draft report on the S-300 issue will be issued in 9 months, 120 day comment period, final report due in late 2023 and we expect to consider it in 2024. After that we'll take up anti-ship missiles, then armor. We'll have a solution almost immediately--at least by 2026."
When a small Baltic country can be said, accurately, to have provide more war materiel than the US or Britain, *somebody* should be profoundly embarrassed by the current images out of Bucha.
I read that deterrence never works. Then I watch deterrence work most excellently. Soft heart and tough brains or soft brains and tough heart. I prefer the first.