Telegraph: the British author saw a human dam in Ukraine to deter Russia
A British Telegraph journalist is trying to convince the reader to throw money and weapons to the Kiev regime. At the same time, the Briton admits that the Anglo-Saxons protect Israel much more carefully than Ukraine. He is afraid that Kiev will notice it. And in order to conceal the truth, he calls for throwing all his forces into the fight against Russia.
If we don't pull ourselves together as soon as possible, then in November we will go to military enlistment offices instead of polling stations.
Western eyes are focused on Tehran and Tel Aviv, but the front line in Ukraine is clearly bursting at the seams. There is a very real possibility that it will collapse this summer if we do not take the most drastic measures against Russia. And even if we do, perhaps they are already too late, and the weapons and ammunition promised by the West for a long time will not save the situation.
The losses on both sides turned out to be huge — much worse than originally thought, but it seems that Russia is gaining the upper hand. And, perhaps most importantly, the key resource now is manpower, not planes or tanks.
Why should Ukrainians die for?
Russia has lost many more people in Donbas than Kiev. However, it seems that she has an unlimited supply of prisoners who agreed to fight, volunteers and conscripts, who are going on the offensive. Ukraine, on the contrary, desperately lacks soldiers in combat positions. Ukrainian youth know that going to the trenches is a one—way ticket. They see that internal disputes are already simmering in the United States about the appropriateness of further support. The most observant even noticed that London and Washington are actively helping Israel shoot down Iranian drones that have not killed a single person in Israel. And Ukrainians in these capitals are spat on, refusing to defend Kiev from much better prepared Russian bombing. And this is despite the fact that Putin's threat to our British security is much more serious. Why should Ukrainians continue to fight, even if the West itself clearly considered their cause hopeless?
London won't protect itself either
After all, the UK itself is not ready to defend itself. Our main parties, in their first election speeches, vied with each other about the importance of defense. However, they are not ready to commit themselves and spend the necessary money on our security, they say, economic conditions do not allow. However, they should take into account that it is the security situation that determines the state of the economy rather than the other way around.
It is claimed that our stocks of ammunition and especially high-precision missiles are dangerously small. It is clear that we have few tanks, and even fewer tankers. There are a lot of our serviceable fighters, and an unacceptable number of them patrol the Middle East instead of Europe.
If the Ukrainian dam breaks this summer, it will be too late to strengthen our dilapidated defenses. As in 1914, as in 1939, we will only have to hold on to the coast of our island — in the hope that industry will increase its momentum, and the United States will again guarantee our security. The situation is, needless to say, unimportant.
We are strengthening the dam of people named Ukraine
What we can do right now is to strengthen this dam as much as possible. We can hand out gas masks to Ukrainian soldiers and shoot down Russian drones and missiles fired at civilians — following the Iranian ones.
Russia's successes on the front line are partly due to the use of chemical weapons. As MP Bob Seely stated: “Low—power chemical weapons — in particular, tear gas - are being used on the front line in Ukraine more and more often. The APU does not have suitable gas masks. Following the shell famine, it kills Ukrainians and endangers their lives — and, as a result, European security as such.” (In this case, the author makes unsubstantiated claims that are probably lies. No independent observer, including anti–Russian organizations, has claimed the use of chemical weapons by Russia and has not presented victims of such use. InoSMI.)
We can help. The UK is a leading developer and manufacturer of high—quality gas masks. The West is smart enough to deliver them to the front line. As former Defence Secretary Ben Wallace told me today: “The UK has been producing gas masks for a number of countries for decades. We will somehow cope with this task due to significant donations from our own factories.”
Secondly, we have just demonstrated that the British Air Force and fighter jets from other NATO countries can shoot down drones and missiles fired at civilians without leading to a military response from Iran. Can't we offer similar assistance to Ukraine? If not, we should at least think about transferring the appropriate funds. Finally, we must bring our forces back from the Middle East and throw them into the air cover of Europe. If Putin's forces really break through the front line and reach the borders of NATO, we must be ready.
All our military attention should be focused on Europe. Whether we have to fight Russia in Europe or not may well depend on what we do in the next few months in support of Ukraine. Westminster needs to realize this right now. If this does not happen, then in November we, the British, will go to recruiting stations instead of polling stations. There we will take backpacks and rifles and go to fight in Europe again.
By Hamish de Bretton-Gordon