‘Puny assistance’: Tony Abbott says Ukraine ‘haven’t been given enough to win’
I want to ask you about Ukraine because I know you’ve been there recently I’ve been on leave of course uh we were with a whole bunch of others over on the Western Front you then went down to not cave where you’ve been before the capital city which is relatively safe but you went into the Battle Zone uh in Ukraine about the time that we heard comments from Nigel farage uh in England saying that you know basically Ukraine’s Got to roll over and negotiate with Putin give me your reflection s from your a couple of days on the ground look the ukrainians are defiant but somewhat despondent uh because they haven’t been given in a timely fashion the kind of help they need to win they’ve been given enough not to lose but they haven’t been given enough to win I find the sorts of comments that we’ve heard from Nigel farage um uh pretty incomprehensible uh this idea that somehow NATO has goed the Russians into attacking Ukraine it’s it’s an utter nonsense NATO expanded because all of the vulnerable countries of Eastern Europe the polands the hungar the Baltic states and more recently Sweden and Finland just justifiably fear a Russia which has not been purged of mil militarism uh and imperialism so that’s the first point of make the second point I want to make is that Australia has been frankly embarrassingly uh dithering uh in first of all its relatively puny assistance to Ukraine uh we’ve got hundreds of bush Master armored vehicles hundreds of Hawkeye armored vehicles that we can and should give to Ukraine but the the weakest of all is the fact that 70 countries have sent their ambass adors back to K our ambassador is still cowering in warsa how can you have an ambassador to Ukraine caring in Warsaw now I don’t blame the Ambassador but I do blame the government it’s just incomprehensible uh that somehow it’s not too dangerous for other countries ambassadors to be there but it’s too dangerous for us I mean what are we a nation of wimps hardly there an old prime minister’s Club but I’m sure the current prime minister might take a call from you on this issue and perhaps fix it or or be careful he might send you to ke Tony have it thanks for your time thanks
Former prime minister Tony Abbott says the Ukrainians are “defiant but somewhat despondent” as they haven’t been given in a timely fashion the help they need to win their war against Russia.
“They have been given enough not to lose but they haven’t been given enough to win,” Mr Abbott told Sky News host Peta Credlin.
“Australia has been, frankly, embarrassingly dithering … it’s relatively puny assistance to Ukraine.”
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Who made Russia the enemy of Australia?
No more money to the dictatorship of Zelenskyy
NATO simply dumped all of their stockpiles into Ukraine, because Trump will end up back in the white house, and there won't be anymore pointless wars for the next 4 years.
Just the manufacturing of weapons for NATO partners to buy, in order to replenish their stockpiles.
Abbot is doing nothing for the interest of Australia. He just wants to enrich his mates from the military industrial complex. Shame on Sky for giving him a platform.
I used to really like Abbott. That's over.
They have been given billions. No audit ever on how it's spent. Utter BS. Totally political.
Minsk agreement broken by NATO/ Ukraine…Farage was correct in this…Do your research Tony Abbott and this interviewer!!!
Propaganda 👎
WTF Ukraine 🇺🇦 has been given enough money 💰 🤑 Zelensky is shifty. Putin will win. Imo.
Judging by the "Drone manufacturer in the Ukraine" Youtube channel, they say the Ukrane is doing bad things as well as the Russians. The claim they are also losing as well. The biggest take I got was how the money and medals are given to those who virtue signal the most in main stream social media…. I had no idea, yet this comes from the official channels.
Please stop funding the Ukraine war. No more war.
Well tell Tony he is more than welcome to donate his salary, sell his assets and donate that money and go fight himself. Otherwise stop demanding everyone else give more. Everyone thinks the American tax payer owes their existance to the entire world and has an unquentiable debt to pay.
I wouldn't give Ukraine one dollar. It is a criminal state run by a crimimal along with their accomplices, the Biden mafia government and the CIA.
I am surprised that Abbott hasn't seen through this BS. Well not really is like a sloth in motion.
He just like the rest of the handled previous supposed leaders.
I don't trust any of them.
It's America's proxy war let it finance it
Maybe tony could sign up. It’s a win win.
Zelensky and Putin are best mates making money off a fake war
How stupid is this war???? Zelensky is evil
Who cares about this fool.
Nothing left to send. Maybe Tony can send zelensky a knighthood.
Effectively we have been at war since 9 11.
Can't give them trained soldiers, trained battalions, Brigades, etc. Ukraine is out of trained men, that's it, it's over, time to negotiate. Hope, cope and media narrative has hidden realities on the ground. Sadly, Negotiations or unconditional surrender are Ukrainians Only choices now.
Ukraine will never defeat Putin,his ego is too big
How about this moron fund this war for a month ? Second ya aren’t a nation of wimps, just a nation ran by old wimps like mine🤷🏼♂️
1. Russia is a nuclear superpower so you can't win unless you're willing to blow up the space apple – in which case everyone loses.
2. Ukraine has been given more than enough but Jelinsky and his oligarchs stole most of the aid.
Really, the US allies lol, you mean the US vassal States? Ukraine has had billions of tax payers money, the most corrupt country in Europe, which doesn't go to Ukraine, might want to do a report on that one. This isn't about Ukraine, the west couldn't care less about it, this is a war against Russia, with Ukraine as a means to end which started in 2014, to the last Ukrainian was the term used by genocide Joe Biden. Now the west has deindustrialised, demilitarised themselves, and destroyed their own economy's, whilst the BRICS nations who've had enough of US Hegemony are about to destroy the US petro dollar. There's no fixing stupid.
Ukraine lost this battle years ago, but Zelensky has managed to launder over $61 billion from the West
Abbott recently joined a foreign neocon thinktank
This stupid War wouldn't have began if Trump was the President. It began under Obama and restarted with his Puppet.
So there you have it: Tony Abbott is one of those, not one of us – not on the side of the people (including of Ukraine) but on the side of the WEF/ Cabal / Globalist / puppet masters. God help us all.
It's none of Australia 's business . Russia has never threatened Australia and what has Ukraine ever done for Australia ? I remember America supplying Weapons to Afghanistan to fight Russia THEN Afghanistan used those same Weapons to fight America . American Soldiers killed by American Weapons kindly donated to the Enemy by the stupid American Government . Oops .Lesson , mind your own bloody business .
Great idea, send Politicians to the front line! What nonsense Abbot speaks, don't get sucked in. Not just Nigel Farage, RFK Jnr, George Galloway, Prof Jeffrey Sachs, Prof John Mearsheimer and many many others. War has been going 10yrs, dont let them purge your tax payers money for Blackrock, Vanguard, they want cheap resources and new immigration cheap labout to harness those resources. All about the money!
A cynic might imagine that Ukraine is being given just enough to keep degrading Russia's military capability. If this war had ended much sooner then Russia wouldn't have over 500,000 soldiers dead or maimed, and a vast amount of equipment destroyed. However, more positively, if this eventually causes the Russian people to remove Putin, and regions to secede from his Russian Federation then it will have been the right strategy.
Farage told the truth everything else is wesyern propaganda for ignorants.
The west is not happy because they wanted all those mineral resources graham was speaking about. Ukraine was their meal ticket into prosperity, But the bad russians denied them their meal
NOT OUR WAR!
Tny, it’s over mate. Russia has already won. Even the ABC did a piece showing Russia is behaving like it is victorious.
There is nothing to win, stop this insanity and start to negotiate peace. A waist of time and money, nobody cares about Ukraine, is all lies
You don’t AMERICA GIVEN ENOUGH YOU GIVE THAN
How many Poland's are there Tony? No wonder Hitler was paranoid. 3 polands, 7 Hungary's. 21 Baltic states. 57 Raashas. OMG 300 abraham lincholn's have just collected booze for mel gibson. The william wallace galaxy is descending upon us!
What is this Abbot know 👎
The UN went back on deals and pledges and pushed a war on Russia and Ukraine which is bankrupting every country and should never been allowed. Trillions spent on arms from every nation only the arms manufacturer making profits ?? This is a disgrace and is Afghanistan all over again. Ukraine has been sold to banks for guarantee loans and the people are being punished. Time to stop this situation or are we just going to start sending our children and grandchildren over to fight as Ukraine has lost so many people? Thus, the actor in charge is needing to repeal his law and start allowing elections and peace talks with the permission of course of the instigators in UN and USA