Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has expressed his support for Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk Oblast and has called on Ukraine’s partners to lift all restrictions on Ukraine using Western-supplied weapons.
  • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1292·
    7 months ago

    Not gonna lie, that headline had me on the first half. I was getting mad up until the last three words.

    • AtomicTacoSauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
      391·
      7 months ago

      Same. I started thinking “why, that stupid shit-for-brains…” and had to reel that in with the last few words.

      ::confused slow clap::

        • sugartits@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          7 months ago

          When it came to the Ukraine situation, he has, in general, not missed a beat.

          The UK has given an impressive amount of gear to the Ukrainians given the size of the UK military, whilst everyone else was dithering and wondering what to give and how much to ensure they still had some stuff at home, the UK attitude was “give them all the things and we’ll worry about it later”.

          Obviously countries like Poland had to be more cautious.

          A lot of training and intelligence has been given to Ukraine as well. The UK continues to host Ukrainian troops for training.

          The UK even made binding “boots on the ground” support agreements to Norway and Sweden in case Russia tried anything during their NATO membership process.

          UK gave a bunch of Challenger 2 tanks with “do what you like with them” terms, not just “pwease don’t shooty shoot on Wussian tewwitory” nonsense. This was a token gesture as actually Ukraine really wanted the German stuff but it opened the door a bit to basically embarrass Germany into getting it’s act together.

          As much as I don’t like the man, Johnson did well when it came to supporting Ukraine, and credit should be given where it is due.

          • fadhl3y@lemmy.worldEnglish
            6·
            7 months ago

            Yes, I think we can all be thankful that all of the major British political parties were united on the need to support Ukraine. As my Ukrainian friends will always point out - Don’t think of it as Europe “helping” Ukraine - instead think of it as Ukraine taking the brunt of Russian aggression to save Europe.

    • edgemaster72@lemmy.world
      13·
      7 months ago

      And it’s so easily fixable too. “Boris Johnson calls to lift ban on Ukraine using”… etc. or just move “to be lifted” immediately after “ban”.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    783·
    7 months ago

    These limitations on Ukraine really need to be lifted. Ukraine needs freedom to attack the best strategic targets they can, whether they are in Ukraine occupied areas or in Russia. Since Russia annexed the occupied territories, there’s not a big difference anyway.

  • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43·
    7 months ago

    I feel like he changed his mind when he saw how upset i was while reading through the first half

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    182·
    7 months ago

    I will admit that I am confounded by how often I agree with Boris Johnson’s views on providing military aid to Ukraine, considering I almost always vehemently disagree with him on pretty much anything and everything else.

    • Gork@lemm.eeEnglish
      52·
      7 months ago

      Yeah he’s one of the very few Western politicians who is taking the threat Russia poses to European security seriously. I found it unexpected tbh considering all of his other views.

  • BenLeMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    7 months ago

    Doesn’t Storm Shadow require Western operators to program targets? I want Ukraine to win this war of national survival (unlike the US administration) but Western operators programming missiles to hit targets in Russia does sound escalatory to me. I’d rather see Ukraine receive a decent number of F16s (i.e. much more than currently pledged) with corresponding munitions. There’s a lot of really useful stuff in the Western arsenal that would otherwise remain unused forever, including older-gen glide bombs & standoff weapons. It’s not going to be the Wunderwaffen winning this war, anyway. But an ample supply of decent weapons could work wonders. Just look at the success of Russia’s cheap glide bomb upgrades. (Sorry for the wall of text, by the way, but I can’t get Connect for Android to retain line breaks)

  • Rin@lemm.eeEnglish
    110·
    7 months ago

    Based Boris

    edit: I was joking 🥲