UK military not among the 'willing' for PM's idea

 Hot Air:

The UK military appears to be revolting. 

Not revolting as in gross, nor are they picking up their guns and storming No 10. But apparently, if The Telegraph is to be believed, military leaders are trashing Keir Starmer's tough talk and vague plans for putting boots on the ground in Ukraine should Trump's efforts to end the war succeed. 

Sir Keir Starmer’s plans for a “coalition of the willing” to keep the peace in Ukraine have been dismissed as “political theatre”.

The Prime Minister proposed the peacekeeping initiative earlier this month, insisting several countries were prepared to enforce any peace deal.

But few concrete details of what troops and equipment would be sent have emerged.

On Sunday, senior military sources dismissed the plans, telling The Telegraph that Sir Keir had “got ahead of himself”.

Earlier this weekend, Donald Trump’s special envoy dismissed the plans as “a posture and a pose”. Steve Witkoff said the idea was based on a “simplistic” notion of the Prime Minister and other European leaders thinking “we have all got to be like Winston Churchill”.

Sounds like some things I have said in recent weeks, although I am far too lazy to go back through my posts to find out if I have been that elegant in my dismissals of Starmer here or merely laughed at the prig while discussing his attempts to appear Churchillian. 

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Starmer has always come across to me as an intellectual lightweight, and this idea supports that thesis.  Such a move would lead to a much wider war at a time when Russia is failing in its attempt to take all of Ukraine.  Right now, Russia is suffering under the sanctions that have already been put in place.  They should give them more time for Putin to realize he has made a mistake.

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