Boris Johnson has offered to launch a major training operation for Ukrainian forces

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with the potential to train up to 10,000 soldiers every 120 days, his office said.

Johnson, who has arrived in Kyiv to meet with Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said in a statement:

My visit today, in the depths of this war, is to send a clear and simple message to the Ukrainian people: the UK is with you, and we will be with you until you ultimately prevail.

The new military training programme “could change the equation of this war - harnessing that most powerful of forces, the Ukrainian determination to win”, he added.

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1. I'm 100% behind anything that helps Ukraine but

being relatively at relatively close quarters (Ireland) I think there is a cynically mixed agenda here:
Boris is trying to bask in Zelensky’s reflected glory to distract from domestic difficulties — Brexit, Partygate etc.
After all he is just a somewhat more intelligent and educated version of Trump.

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2. Winston Churchill had many faults as well

I could fill pages making them.

Same with Boris Johnson.

But--damn it all--the British PM is reading this situation rightly.

This is the free world's most challenging and most defining moment since WWII.

And in this moment, he has moral clarity about what needs to be done.

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3. I think Europe in general is being very clear-eyed about it

This is their backyard, and the Cold War wasn't that long ago.

If Russian aggression isn't ended in the Ukraine, it will spread. They cannot afford for Putin to win.

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4. There is a continuum of European responses, as I see it.

From those who are very clear eyed to those who are more equivoca, with a range in between.

Most of the nations that are showing the greatest resolve are close to Russia's border.

Britain is an exemption. In being among the former, despite some physical distance.

Hungary is another exception, where things are the other way around.

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5. Spot on. nt

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7. Agreed.

[Crunchy Frog]

8. Yes.

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6. Smart move. Good situational awareness and response. Nt