He has promised to give Ukraine long-range air defence weapons, along with jet fighter planes, to allow that country to better defend itself from Russian aggression.
And he wants Russia’s warlords to face justice after peace is brought about.
But what kind of peace will we get?
Sunak is gambling that Russian leader Vladimir Putin will not dare to use his nuclear arsenal.
But the easiest way to stop the UK from providing anything to Ukraine is to wipe the UK off the map.
It would be a suicidal strategy for Putin as well, because the UK’s allies would respond. But that would be scant consolation.
And, if you believe Boris Johnson (ha ha!), Putin has already threatened the UK with nuclear reprisals.
So one has to question whether sabre-rattling of the kind that Sunak is doing is really a sane way forward.
Here’s his speech to the Munich Security Conference:
Warmonger Starmer: this is a mock-up, of course – don’t expect him to climb into a uniform and get his own hands dirty. He’ll just talk about it.
Keir Starmer has visited Ukraine, where he made clear his desire for the war between that country and Russia to continue.
He prefaced a tweeted video of his comments with what I understand to be a fascist slogan associated with Nazi collaborators who participated in the Holocaust:
This idiot is tweeting the slogan of Stepan Bandera's OUN-B. Nazi collaborators who were responsible for some of the worst atrocities of the holocaust. https://t.co/GuBR7K9RiC
Notice that he actually said, on behalf of the Labour Party, that he was “showing our support for the conflict“.
I can only agree with Chris Williamson, below: the correct approach to a conflict between other nations is to offer to act as a mediator between the two and seem a negotiated end to hostilities through diplomacy.
It has been suggested that the two countries almost reached such a negotiated cessation of conflict – in April 2022 – until Boris Johnson flew to Ukraine and talked President Zelenskyy out of it. With Johnson out of power in the UK, it seems to me that renewed talks might bring about peace.
But it seems Starmer also wants the bloodshed to continue:
What Sir Keir Starmer means is that if a Labour govt is elected next year, he will continue to facilitate the slaughter of more Ukrainians and won't try to bring the war in #Ukraine to end through diplomacy.
So there you have it. The leader of the UK’s Labour Party mouths platitudes about the suffering of the Ukrainian people but supports ongoing war in that country and quotes Holocaust perpetrators for good (bad?) measure.
He is a dangerous warmonger and deserves nothing from you but contempt.
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Rishi Sunak at PMQs: This is a stock pic – he’s not usually this animated.
Rishi Sunak is coming under pressure to explain why he apparently helped Russian oligarch and warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin dodge sanctions against him in order to sue a UK journalist for libel (the case later collapsed but left the journalist owing £70,000 in legal fees).
Prigozhin is the founder of Wagner, a private army that is currently understood to be committing atrocities in Ukraine.
Challenged on it in Prime Minister’s Questions, Sunak had the nerve to say he was proud of the UK’s sanction system – a system over which he appears to have run roughshod.
And he copped out of answering the question by saying there’s a government organisation that deals with such matters.
This Writer was watching the exchange via the BBC’s Politics Live programme, and was hoping the panel would discuss this matter afterwards, as my tweets showed.
No such luck. I wonder why?
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Rishi Sunak: yes, this image again. He looks shifty in it – as he should, if he authorised the activities described below.
This is what happens when celebrities get to sue UK journalists like me – the government ends up giving financial support to a Russian oligarch whose private army is currently rampaging through Ukraine.
It seems the UK Treasury helped a close ally of Vladimir Putin to evade sanctions imposed against him personally (this was before the Ukraine-Russia war) in order to sue a UK journalist.
Rishi Sunak was Chancellor of the Exchequer at the time. The Russian oligarch was Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of Wagner, a private army that is currently understood to be committing atrocities in Ukraine.
In the light of the Ukraine-Russia war, the UK’s apparent support for Ukraine in that conflict (while actually having supported a Russian through this case) makes it seem clear that both Rishi Sunak and Boris Johnson before him are hypocrites.
Some say it should bring down the UK government. Here’s Phil Moorhouse of A Different Bias:
He took his information from the website Open Democracy, whose article can be found here.
Here’s where this story intersects with my own legal case, in which I was sued by a certain TV celebrity (I’m currently appealing against the judgment):
Revelations about Wagner and Prigozhin were exposed by Bellingcat in 2020, leading to the notorious libel case against Higgins.
Higgins was targeted individually, rather than as part of a legal case against Bellingcat. This meant that, instead of claiming Bellingcat’s investigations into Wagner were defamatory, the lawyers instead relied on tweets Higgins had sent to promote the investigations on social media.
The approach allowed Prigozhin to launch his legal attack in the UK – where Higgins lives, and where libel laws are more punishing for journalists – rather than in the Netherlands, where Bellingcat is headquartered.
The case collapsed when the lawyers from Discreet withdrew their services in March last year, a month after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and was eventually struck out in May. Higgins was left with estimated costs of £70,000.
The case has been highlighted as an example of a SLAPP action (Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation), an abuse of the legal process designed to intimidate and close down legitimate scrutiny.
You see, the idea is to intimidate the victim (Eliot Higgins in this case, or myself) by threatening them with huge damages to pay and/or huge legal bills.
Higgins told openDemocracy… it was clear that “wealthy individuals abuse the UK legal system to attack legitimate journalists with the assistance of British lawyers” and said the case demonstrated the need for “robust anti-SLAPP legislation” to protect journalists from similar actions in the future.
On a national level – and therefore more serious (even) than what happened to Mr Higgins or myself – is the allegation that the current UK government, and a department headed at the time by the current UK prime minister, deliberately evaded sanctions it had itself imposed, in order to help someone whose private army is currently attacking a country with which the UK has ostensibly allied itself.
How many other times has the Tory government done this? Is it still doing this? Why does Parliament not know about it?
This should be enough to bring Sunak down – along with his government. Please share – and ask your favourite national media outlets (newspapers, TV, whoever) to cover it.
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Vladimir Putin: it’s easy to pretend to take land by signing a piece of paper saying it – but matching the word to the deed might be more difficult than he thinks.
This is Putin’s response to Ukraine’s success in retaking huge swathes of territory from Russia.
He has made an illegal land grab, annexing parts of Ukraine that his armies have not even taken. The four annexed territories are: Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk.
Under a law passed in Russia last year, this means it will be impossible to hand those territories back in any peace negotiations.
Here’s some commentary on that:
Putin has also announced mass mobilisation of people into his army – and is again threatening to use nuclear weapons.
Here’s Russell Howard on that:
This Writer doesn’t know how you feel about it, but I’m glad that Uri Geller is using “mind power” to deflect any nuclear weapons aimed at the UK!
Let’s all remember, though, that Ukraine’s fightback is continuing at speed – that country’s forces have recently retaking the city of Lyman in Donetsk. It makes a lie of Putin’s claim that his annexation is democratic and the people there want to be part of Russia:
Again, the words of Professor Tim Wilson appeal to This Writer:
Putin should go and sit in the Naughty Corner and have a think about what he’s been doing.
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And another one gone: Angelo Sanchez is apparently the latest person to have his Labour Party membership suspended in Keir Starmer’s little totalitarian dictatorship.
A delegate to the Labour Party conference who criticised NATO yesterday (September 27) has been suspended today, it is being reported.
Angelo Sanchez, Leicester CLP delegate, was speaking on a motion on Ukraine. Here’s what he said:
It seems free speech and debate is unwanted in Keir Starmer’s Labour Party. What does that presage for the UK as a whole, if he ever becomes prime minister?
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As the blurb for this video states, “For a country that ISN”T overrun with Nazis and Nazi sympathizers, Ukraine sure does seem to contain lots of folks sporting Nazi tattoos or patches on their clothing.
“The latest to be revealed is one of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s bodyguards, who was spotted during a visit to the recently liberated eastern Ukrainian city of Izyum sporting a so-called Totenkopfverbande patch, celebrating the guards who ran Nazi concentration camps and later made up Hitler’s personal guards.”
And it gets worse. Here’s the clip:
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The bank holiday weekend may be over, but this article is being produced in the period before everybody goes back to work – so I’m still putting up material that has interested me – and I hope it interests you. Make of it what you will:
It’s an interesting discussion of support for Nazism in Ukraine.
My opinion? They could have been simply waving, but in a straight-armed, hand-up way.
Couldn’t they?
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Vladimir Putin: meetings with the military have been cancelled, apparently while the Kremlin works to clear him of blame for defeats in Ukraine.
Meetings between Vladimir Putin and his top military officials have been postponed while the Kremlin tries to find a way to deflect blame for Russia’s recent defeats in Ukraine, it has been suggested.
According to an assessment published on Tuesday by the Institute for the Study of War*, the Kremlin is trying to clear Putin of any responsibility for Russia’s disastrous retreat and instead place the blame on “underinformed military advisors within Putin’s circle.”
If military advisors are “underinformed”, then one would imagine Putin would be desperate to hold these meetings, find out where the rot has set in, and put a stop to it.
But perhaps that is too reasonable a point of view.
Commentators, discussing the Russian rout earlier this week, have suggested that the defeats have a more structural basis – that, Russia now being in the hands of corrupt oligarchs who owe their positions to Putin, investment on military equipment has collapsed; they have kept as much cash as they could and invested only in the cheapest and shoddiest weaponry.
As a result, in the face of cutting-edge technology sent to Ukraine by western powers, Russian soldiers have been outmatched and forced to back away.
You can appreciate that such news would not be welcomed by the leader who had made it possible for this to happen.
With Russia, as always, it will be practically impossible to find out what’s really going on.
As ever, we’ll have to draw our conclusions from any changes in strategy over the next few weeks, if not months.
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Putin prepares to ride into Ukraine: okay, he isn’t really doing that. But after a series of defeats for Russia, we should all fear the response from a man who isn’t afraid to take his shirt off while riding a horse.
Has this even been covered on the national news?
This Writer has been watching the number of clips on YouTube following developments proliferating, but I can’t say I’ve noticed much about it on the media here in the UK. There’s a link to a piece about it on the BBC News front page.
Rather than pass comment myself – I don’t know that much about it at the moment – I’ll put up the video clips I’ve seen and allow you to make up your own mind.
Here we go. This is from September 10:
The trend continued on September 11:
And on September 12:
September 13:
This came from left-field:
Dore did focus on the main point of what’s happening:
Apparently the verdict is that it is not a turning-point in the Ukraine war.
Russia is not on the run and is now attacking the Ukrainian civilian energy structure. Interesting, considering Europe was apparently relying on Ukraine for power (from its surplus) over the winter?
Meanwhile, in Russia…
And so to today (September 14).
Here’s evidence that Russia is buying weaponry from North Korea. Can we blame that country, considering the amount of ordnance that Europe has been pumping into Ukraine?
The leader of the Russian Communist Party has called Putin’s “special military operation” in Ukraine a “full-fledged war”. He’s calling for escalation of the conflict:
Vladimir Putin’s press secretary, Dimitri Peskov, has said that the Russian people are aware that the conflict in Ukraine has turned against Russia and are not happy about it.
I’ll keep an eye on this.
There certainly seems to be more to it than your lovable national media are saying.
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