Britain has led the way… but we could still do so much more to help Ukraine as Volodymyr Zelensky appeals for fighter aircraft
Britain has led the way… but we could still do so much more to help Ukraine as Volodymyr Zelensky appeals for fighter aircraft
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Not sure of the general consensus here but (without wanting to seem insensitive to the plight of Ukraine) it’s getting a bit tiresome to hear of Ukraine and how we’re apparently the damn champions of helping them… …while there’s an ongoing cost of living / heating / strike action / lack of affordable housing (etc) crisis ongoing in the UK.
The so-called schemes to alleviate pressure from the heating crisis are a temporary band-aid solution at best. They’re just hoping warmer weather will have people no longer *needing* heating and so they won’t notice the cost of it anymore (until autumn 2023 at least).
It’s plenty virtuous to help others around the world, but it’d be nice to see that same effort made at home.
>Britain has led the way
Daily Heil is making up shit again.
Where is the talk of peace? Who is being hurt by the sanctions because it is definitely not the Russians? The hypocrisy STINKS… Meanwhile Zelensky arrests officials for corruption and bans political opposition and religious groups. Hey, let’s all clap like performing seals.
Makes me sick.
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. . . . This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
The Chance for Peace speech, also known as the Cross of Iron speech, was an address given by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower on April 16, 1953, shortly after the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
We have worthy fighter aircraft ? Isn’t the last time aircrafts had action was during Falklands war ? Or even earlier than that ?
https://www.occrp.org/en/the-pandora-papers/pandora-papers-reveal-offshore-holdings-of-ukrainian-president-and-his-inner-circle