Dec 17, 2023
“Russia and Putin can really now see the Western resolve crumbling.” Assistance to Ukraine is “bogged down” because of political infighting in US congress, and rise of far-right populists in Europe, former Moscow correspondent for the FT, Catherine Belton tells #TimesRadio.

Putler is cocky because he thinks he’s going to get his protege into the WH.
Ukraine MUST be provided with EVERY assistance needed to drive the child raping vermin off before the election.
“Protégé” implies someone who is learning. I think “puppet” is a better description of trumpkov.
The interviewee here; Catherine Belton, has quite a bit of form with putler and his butt boys. She believes that in 2003, Abramovich acquired Chelsea FC on the orders of putler. The objective, which was successfully achieved, was to use a business with large movements of cash, to launder putinaZi money and give Abramovich an air of respectability in London society, thus providing opportunities for other putinaZi oligarchs to move in.
Ms Belton published this allegation in her book.
Abramovich has been with putler from day one. He had a flat inside the kremlin and selected and interviewed putler’s first cabinet.
Wiki:
“In March 2021, Roman Abramovich filed a lawsuit in London against Belton and her publisher, HarperCollins, for defamation. Harbottle & Lewis represented Abramovich over the matter. Belton, on the account of three former Abramovich associates, alleges that Abramovich acquired Chelsea Football Club in 2003 under Putin’s instructions. The libel suit was settled with minor amendments. Although the book carried a denial from him, future editions will explain Abramovich’s motivations in more detail.
Further lawsuits have been brought against HarperCollins by Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven; and against both the author and publisher by Shalva Chigirinsky, and Rosneft. HarperCollins have stated they will “robustly defend” the actions. Nick Cohen in The Observer described the litigation as “a pile-on from Russian billionaires on a scale this country has never witnessed” adding “London’s lawyers are hard at work. Carter-Ruck, CMS, Harbottle & Lewis and Taylor Wessing have a billionaire apiece in a kind of socialism of the litigious.”
Unfortunately, skanky lawyers have been making a fortune litigating on behalf of RuZZian criminals for the best part of two decades.
I think this entire military-aid-is-crumbling issue is being highly overblown.
It’s not putler and his filth who are winning per se, it is Trump winning for putler in the US and Orban winning for putler in Europe.
There is no light at the end of the tunnel until both those aid packages are unblocked and the full $300 billion of putinaZi cash is in the hands of the ZSU and its quartermasters.
Even then, I think Budapest Memorandum troops will be needed at some point to hold the line.
Ukraine need to defeat the vermin before Trumpkov can get in the WH.
Obviously jail would be better though.
Jail for this moron is the best option for the United States and the free world.
Thank you for adding some common sense to the conversation Sir Facts.