Ukraine ‘asked Britain to buy weapons for 7 years but was repeatedly refused over fears of provoking Putin’

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  1. We can’t afford to provide adequate healthcare. Because over the past 30 years, every publicly owned industry that belonged to the British people has been stolen from under our feet and sold.
    Like most countries, we maintain a skeleton army during peacetime. Can you imagine the cost of getting into a war during the pandemic? Not just in financial terms but in terms the impact on the people and the human cost.

    [This is NOT defence](https://thebulletin.org/2021/02/why-is-america-getting-a-new-100-billion-nuclear-weapon/)

  2. Why do we have to get involved? It’s not our war. I agree to help refugees. But that’s what we’ve seen other nations do and literally create an enemy army. Using remote control indiscriminate murder to batter people with more than 300,000 hellfire missiles, often based on little more than hearsay from a sworn enemy. Now they have 10 times the poppy dust they did before and a population that understandably want their turn. That poppy dust is for sale on the exact same market place as a endless supply of surplus Soviet plutonium. Coincidentally 1k poppy dust= 2k plutonium.
    What do you think will happen?
    I don’t want my kids going off to die because we can’t just concentrate on looking after our country. It’s the last thing we need now. But with the ludicrous electoral system, we have no voice.
    I visited Romania in early 1990, right after their revolution and saw for myself what an unmovable government does. They’ve stolen everything that belonged to us over the past 30 years and all that’s left is the dregs. But I will not pay with my kids lives. Did invading the middle East end hostility? No. How many dead? It’s not productive. In the eyes of the enemy, involvement and aiding the enemy is conspiracy. That’s all they need to know.
    Wading into other people’s wars has only delivered allies to Russia.

  3. Firstly, I feel Putin is a DISGUSTING and ABHORANT individual. I’m as ANTI WAR as they come.

    But Putin estimated the west wouldn’t do anything if he invaded Ukraine. He was right. He knew full well that NATO and the UN would be absolutely hopeless if it was asked to intervene against a fellow nuclear power.

    Putin has exposed this frailty, but at least we now know that without unilateral disarmament, this world is one hell of a lot more dangerous than many thought just a few short months ago.

    Fir the first time in my life I feel a nuclear war could really happen 🙁

  4. And let’s be fair, it is true. But after Putin started the war Britain delivered. And in the meantime provided military training, intelligence and light weapons. No one could have given more without escalation.

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