“It is just nuts for the diplomats to think that they will willingly give up their territory, as Putin is absurdly demanding. As it happens young Dasha – the press officer – actually comes from Kramatorsk, the embattled town in the Donetsk region that Putin wants, allegedly as his price for considering a ceasefire.”
‘How can we say that we will give up Kramatorsk, or Sloviansk?’ she says scornfully. ‘I went into the army to protect Kramatorsk.’
“The real question is not whether Putin can capture all of Ukraine – because he can’t – but whether we are doing enough to help the Ukrainians to push him back, and force him to the negotiating table.”
“To judge by what I have seen the answer is that we are not. We are not doing anything like enough.”
“We have spent four years psalming platitudes, and telling them that their fight is our fight. On the basis of what I have seen, we are risibly failing to live up to our pledges, and to give them the help they need.”
“The Ukrainians can win, and will win. But our delay and our timidity continue to cause unimaginable human suffering.”
“We are right to say that the Ukrainians are fighting for all of us – so why the hell are we still short-changing them?”
Boris seems to be the closest to a Churchill that we have these days, unless his words are just flaky nothingness, like Merz’s were. But I doubt it. Unfortunately, he’s not PM anymore.
All across the free world we have nothing but spineless featherweights and pansywaist pansies, soft and gooey on the inside and slimy on the outside.
Extracts :
“It is just nuts for the diplomats to think that they will willingly give up their territory, as Putin is absurdly demanding. As it happens young Dasha – the press officer – actually comes from Kramatorsk, the embattled town in the Donetsk region that Putin wants, allegedly as his price for considering a ceasefire.”
‘How can we say that we will give up Kramatorsk, or Sloviansk?’ she says scornfully. ‘I went into the army to protect Kramatorsk.’
“The real question is not whether Putin can capture all of Ukraine – because he can’t – but whether we are doing enough to help the Ukrainians to push him back, and force him to the negotiating table.”
“To judge by what I have seen the answer is that we are not. We are not doing anything like enough.”
“We have spent four years psalming platitudes, and telling them that their fight is our fight. On the basis of what I have seen, we are risibly failing to live up to our pledges, and to give them the help they need.”
“The Ukrainians can win, and will win. But our delay and our timidity continue to cause unimaginable human suffering.”
“We are right to say that the Ukrainians are fighting for all of us – so why the hell are we still short-changing them?”
Boris seems to be the closest to a Churchill that we have these days, unless his words are just flaky nothingness, like Merz’s were. But I doubt it. Unfortunately, he’s not PM anymore.
All across the free world we have nothing but spineless featherweights and pansywaist pansies, soft and gooey on the inside and slimy on the outside.