British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, The same one that took the United Kingdom out of the European Union against all odds by slamming the door on Brussels, has put itself at the head of the group of countries that leads the defense of Europe against Russian aggression. It is true that France and Germany are supplying arms to Kyiv, but London is certainly leading the way, and Johnson seems to have become the leading activist for the Ukrainian causeeven more than the president of the USA Joe Biden.
With his starring role in the Ukraine crisis, the British “premier” has not only succeeded in overshadowing the leaders of France and Germany but has also removed the intense and annoying spotlight that mars his image due to the scandal of the “partygate”, giving a breath of fresh air to his battered popularity among the British.
Johnson has twice visited Ukraine since the war began, while Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz They did it last week for the first time. British military and political support for the Ukrainian president Volomidyr Zelensky is unbreakable, and his determined bet so that Sweden and Finland can join NATO as soon as possible has been more resounding than that of any other country.
The United Kingdom has also been one of the fastest countries to reinforce NATO’s eastern flank after the outbreak of war by sending soldiers and ships. Also, has said it will deliver more than €1.6 billion worth of advanced weapons to Ukraine.
London has announced the donation to Ukraine of M270 multiple launch rockets with M31A1 precision munitions. It has shipped more than 5,000 next-generation light anti-tank weapons. They are called nlaws, designed to destroy tanks at close range with a single shot. Another of the key pieces supplied to kyiv are “hundreds” of Brimstone missilesin addition to 120 armored vehicles, including Mastiff patrol vehicles. The British defense secretary also reported the shipment of “dozens” heavy-lift drones and five air defense systems, including missiles. Starstreak.
UK leads the Joint Expeditionary Force, a joint military force outside the EU heavily involved in the defense of Ukraine, in which, in addition to the United Kingdom, countries such as Norway, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Netherlands participate. For some, it is the real European army that the EU seems incapable of launching.
The big but that from Ukraine they put to London’s action in this war is its deficient immigration policy, which has left many Ukrainian refugees unable to enter the UKnothing to do with the agility and generosity shown by the European Union.
Meanwhile, Johnson focuses on his role as spokesman, warning European leaders that the war will be long and that Western countries must accept that Ukraine will need support for years to remain a viable state. Ukraine, Johnson said this weekend, must “receive weapons, equipment, ammunition and training faster than the invader,” explained the prime minister, who on Friday announced a training program with the capacity to train up to 10,000 soldiers each 120 days.
As he writes in The Guardian Simon Tisdall, “Recent events have certainly reminded hard-core Brexiteers that Europe is the UK’s home turf, the inescapable neighbor where the main national interests lie” of the British. For Tim Oliverprofessor of British politics and public policy at the University of Manchester, the leading role in the Ukrainian crisis “It reaffirms the great power role that the UK has been seeking since the end of the Second World War.”
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