Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Weapons Deliveries: "'We're not Amazon': UK defence secretary suggests Ukraine could say thank you more"

 That feeling when you wore your brown shoes to the formal NATO get-together....

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....and all you can do is wish Boris was back.

From The Guardian, July 12:

‘We’re not Amazon’: UK defence secretary suggests Ukraine could say thank you more
Ben Wallace says west would like to see gratitude for help, as Zelenskiy complains over caution on Nato membership

The British defence secretary, Ben Wallace, has suggested Ukraine needs to put more emphasis on thanking the west for its assistance after Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s complaints on Tuesday that his country had not been issued a firm timetable or set of conditions for joining Nato.

“Whether we like it or not, people want to see a bit of gratitude,” Wallace said at a briefing in the margins of the Nato summit in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, when asked about the Ukrainian president’s comments that it was “absurd” for Kyiv to be told it would be welcome in the alliance but not given a date or exact conditions....

....MUCH MORE