Starmer ready and willing to send British troops to the Ukraine.

 

Keir Starmer

The UK Parliament have just been told that in the event of war, the British army would run out of munitions within ten days. Last spring, the number of British army troops dropped below 73,000 for the first time since the Napoleonic era. Yet the Labour Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer-oid is saying that he's ready and willing to deploy British troops to the Ukraine if that becomes necessary.

The U.S. President, Donald Trump, has just pulled the plug on NATO and the Ukraine and entered into direct negotiations with the Russian president Vladimir Putin, to bring the war to an end in the Ukraine. Trump has also signaled that U.S. security support for Europe is to be scaled back. Neither NATO member countries or the Ukraine were consulted about this.

Foreign ministers of both Russia and the U.S. will meet in Saudi Arabia on Monday to start talks about a peace agreement. The Ukraine has not been invited to the negotiating table nor have the leaders of European countries. An emergency meeting has also been called by the French president Emmanuel Macron. The French president wants a Europe-led peacekeeping force in Ukraine. Whether European countries would be prepared to commit troops as part of an international peacekeeping force in sufficient numbers is questionable. Some estimates have suggested that 100,000 troops would be needed.

Donald Trump seems to be carving out a new world order that side-lines Europe and NATO in favour of a closer alignment with Russia and America. Trump has been accused of brokering a Munich-style appeasement agreement with Russia. The former Conservative prime minister, John Major, accused Trump of "cuddling up" to Putin and warned that "tinpot" dictators would be emboldened if Russia was allowed to keep Ukrainian territory seized by force.