Putin’s ‘Soviet Union dream’ is evil and wrong | Michael Binyon

"His dream of restoring the old Soviet Union simply is not possible. It's unrealistic. It's wrong. It's evil."
Putin needs to know that his Soviet Union dream is “unacceptable” to the rest of the world, The Times’ former diplomatic editor Michael Binyon tells #TimesRadio.
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[@trentriver]

The West can no longer hesitate - we MUST provide everything we can for Ukraine to win.

[@hardtruth1071]

100%

[@PharisaerWatch]

Agreed. And before the Russian Putin fanboys state again "UK should not pay for the war" -> During the Soviet Union era, aaaaaaa lot of money needed to be spend on the army as well. Let's demilitarize Russia as quickly as possible by providing even more assistance to Ukraine. Cheaper in the long run and the right thing to do

[@zahariachirica5466]

100%

[@grendalsnap7158]

The west/nato/usa is far more evil. The USA has been invading/regime changing countries for decades. LIbya, Iraq,Syria, Afghanistan..... The western governments do not care about Ukraine. The Ukraine government was overthrown by the USA via Victoria Nuland. This is being done protect USA global dominance, to protect it's dollar(the private central banks).

[@bourbonlover7158]

But we can't give them too much or Putin has a fit!

[@crocolagerfelden6142]

That's exactly the reason why we should help Ukraine win this war now. If we don't, we will have to face him again in Poland, the Baltics or Finland, and this time around we will have no other choice but to send in our troops. The cost benefit analysis of this situation clearly indicates that we will be better off giving Ukraine everything they need to push him back than not doing so. What many (particularly in the US) still don't understand is that it's not charity, it's an effort in securing their own interests. I hope our politicians stop playing short term re-election politics and actually make an effort to explain this simple truth to their voters.

[@gettingfactsoutthere]

You war mongers will get everyone dead. If you are so keen on stopping them go fight in Ukraine.

[@DanielKolbin]

Basically what I’ve been saying

[@alexv850]

God bless all of you who suport Ukraine. Never bow to sick dictators. Slava Ukraine from Hungary. Glory to the Heroes of Ukraine.

[@ericafiore1624]

I feel sorry for you, your leader is Putin puppet.

[@user-gf4kb1jb4q]

Glory to Russia! 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺

[@ItsaRomethingeveryday]

🇺🇦 SLAVA UKRAINE 🇺🇦

[@user-gf4kb1jb4q]

@@ItsaRomethingeveryday 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺💪💪💪💪

[@97henrik041]

@@user-gf4kb1jb4q No glory in Russia since 1945 and only sick fascism since 2000.

[@benyomovod6904]

Churchill would be proud of Selensky

[@boink800]

Never surrender!

[@ab-ym3bf]

Who cares what Churchill thinks.

[@currentaf8455]

Churchill is roasting in hxll

[@jeffreyuprichard3754]

@@ab-ym3bf who cares about what you think .

[@damianmcgowan3614]

Do you have any idea how offensive your comment is?

[@alexcore697]

We fight not for glory, nor for wealth, nor honour but only and alone for freedom which no good man surrenders but with his life.

[@user-gf4kb1jb4q]

Все помрёте 😂

[@alexcore697]

@@user-gf4kb1jb4q So will you

[@user-gf4kb1jb4q]

@@alexcore697 а мы не все😉

[@HungryGhost999]

@@alexcore697 🙄

[@Ridethebomb777]

You wouldn't know what the meaning of that is. Lovely wee speech though.

[@andrewjacobson556]

As an American tax payer, and a Ukraine supporter send the planes A10's F16's and the B52's!!! 🇺🇦 🇺🇲🇬🇧!!!

[@alunevans2377]

We Brits could provide Ukraine with Spitfires and Lancaster bombers

[@andrewjacobson556]

@@alunevans2377 🤪 Na there to valuable, priceless really

[@damianmcgowan3614]

You bloody Americans started this war.

[@DeathWishMonkey]

A-10s and B-52s won't work that all that well in the theater. Any western jet fighter would be good, though something with shorter take-off would be better...

[@andrewjacobson556]

@@DeathWishMonkey Here's where I'm goona disagree a little bit A10's we're built to destroy Soviet tanks, and B52's well I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of B52 sorties, but if successful then you send in tanks and infantry to hopefully mop up.....

[@davidgallaway7012]

This is definitely a war against evil.....

[@CaptainGrimes1]

Yeah against the globalised west and its davos politicians

[@grendalsnap7158]

Yes it is. Against the evil of the banker controlled west.

[@lesterquintrell4844]

evil fighting evil if so.

[@Pemmont107]

Trying to draw moral equivalency between Ukraine and murderous Putin's regime is going to fail.

[@Harry-tb8yo]

@@lesterquintrell4844 FO Ivan

[@BurntheKremlin966]

It's not just evil it's absurd and it just show how little Russia learnt about the rest of the world since the collapse of the USSR.... Like a lazy pupils in the classroom complaining about everything....

[@dearmas9068]

It's also evil.

[@joecater894]

russia learnt a lot... but those that learnt it are dead or dying of old age... and/or far removed from power..

[@gilh3947]

In Russia today is February 8th 1789, not February 8th 2023

[@traumvonhaiti]

Why do they keep saying Soviet Union? USSR was about the economic system first and foremost. And the system no one wants to restore. So there are few lessons to be learned from that. The Soviet system fell because it wasn't sustainable without the global socialist revolution at which the early Bolsheviks aimed. The Comintern was an international organization present in the Western Europe and the USA alike. But Stalin dismissed it in 1943. No! What Putin actually wants to restore is the Russian Empire pre 1917 Why isn't it obvious? They already have the flag, the oligarchs, the raw resource exporting economy the way it was pre 1917 - the remaining part is the territory.

[@joprocter4573]

Swagger despite dying for UK Russia was isolated after the war so how you expect to learn??

[@hannekezijlmans6578]

It's quite simple what Ukraine needs: Things that go ZOOM, things that go VROOM, and things that go BOOM.

[@olebull9714]

@Ian Dalzell it is only the Russians who are afraid of Putin and the closer they are to the pinnacles of power, the more afraid they are of him. zelensky is absolutely right that putin is a nobody.... and nobody outside russia cares about him or whatever he says....... putins days are numbered, and this number is very small

[@michaelkatz275]

@iandalzell2137 Russia must be driven out of Ukraine, other wise we will see a repeat of the Second World War in Europe.

[@michaelkatz275]

Exactly!

[@MichelleBlessing]

​@Ian Dalzell Russia lost months ago.

[@JohnSmith-gu6hf]

@Ian Dalzell Who is fighting a losing battle?

[@norfolknomad]

It makes me proud as a Brit to know we are doing so much to help Ukraine in their fight against evil.

[@jaspal201]

Hang on a minute, did you say evil. Take a good look in the mirror .

[@scotttyler1880]

Another simpleton!!!

[@ItsaRomethingeveryday]

@@jaspal201 maybe you need to look in mirror as well 🪞 👀

[@Dippy7520]

@@jaspal201 why is it always the west that evil??? There isn’t a country on the planet who doesn’t have evil history. Sick and tired of west is bad and everywhere else is squeaky clean. Go do one!!

[@wacojones8062]

Good Presentation. As a retired member of the US Army, I have felt Russia needs to be crushed since I was drafted Dec 1970.

[@ShadowGamer191]

Russia has suffered more than anyone been through Stalingrad and the siege of Leningrad can’t break a people who have took that on

[@RaviRanjan-jc3eg]

Again USSR should be formed to teach West a tough lesson.

[@aceofspades5786]

'In Ukraine today, very pilot is a king'. Send the jets now 💙💛 GBUA

[@user-gf4kb1jb4q]

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[@janewilkin1984]

Sent spitfires, they worked for Churchill

[@skymaster4121]

@@janewilkin1984 yes we will send a spitfire and put YOU on it, then you tell me how it went. You have nothing to worry, right? As you said it worked for Churchill 🤣 Lets see hiw bright your idea really is

[@CZac2k12]

I agree!! Restoring the Soviet Union by force is evil. We stand with our allies in defence of their nation!! 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇺🇸🤝🇺🇦

[@traumvonhaiti]

Why do they keep saying Soviet Union? USSR was about the economic system first and foremost. And the system no one wants to restore. What Putin actually wants to restore is the Russian Empire pre 1917 Why isn't it obvious? They already have the flag, the oligarchs, the raw resource exporting economy the way it was pre 1917 - the remaining part is the territory.

[@TommyTCGT]

Ally? ROLLOCKS..Not nutto/eu or any def. agreement.

[@skymaster4121]

@@TommyTCGT Well swallow it because thats exactly how it is 🤣 🤡

[@ndwandwewasendwedwe7964]

Yeah he will really fail at restoring the USSR, but he will succeed at destroying NATO

[@juanbarus9420]

And thats true if their ex-soviet comrade call them cannibal, eat their own kin..

[@alexcore697]

Why are we still trading with China?? All trade needs to stop

[@lolikbolik4818]

Gain of function research European commission sponsored this sino-american military project 77th brigade was tasked with "vaccinating" scared sheep Cdc changed its definition for vaccine Think

[@marcussherlock6318]

Because that would collapse the economy of both nations.

[@timonsolus]

Yes, all trade with China needs to stop. But not all at once. It needs to be gradually phased out over time with gradually increasing levels of sanctions.

[@neric37]

@@timonsolusWhat if you collapse before????

[@alexcore697]

@@neric37 We wont collapse,,Western trade would give jobs to Western people and China would collapse we don t need China or Russia

[@richardsimms251]

The president of Ukraine, Mr Zelensky, is a master of politics and persuasion. I am sure persuaded by him and I believe in his cause !! Let’s personally support his country financially as I have RS. Canada

[@chrishallam75]

The reason Zelensky went to the US then the UK for jets is that we (along with US, Russia and Belarus were guarantors of their security) under the Budapest memorandum.

[@ninaotan7811]

Belarus was not a guarantor in this case. It was a party (along with Ukraine and Kazakhstan) to which the guarantees were given.

[@chrishallam75]

@@ninaotan7811 correct, Kazakhstan and Belarus were given similar assurances about security in the memorandum. I was mistaken on Belarus being a guarantor.

[@holmavik6756]

Beyond the fact that Putin does not care the slightest about human lifes, there is also a complete lack of realism. As someone said, ”there is not a single intellectual bone in Putins body”.

[@cooldudecs]

Putin actually is quite intelligent. He knows without parts Poland and Ukraine his country is finished. The best possible move for Russia trying to keep Crimea but that’s not going to happen once the leopards and m1 tanks are rumblings on the steppes

[@MichelleBlessing]

​@Thinking man Any man who rides a horse barechested is not intelligent, let alone right in the head!

[@holmavik6756]

@@cooldudecs Intelligent, yes. But that does not imply that he is intellectual. Russia is a nation of opportunities. The day they step out from the shadows of the past and starts to pay their attention to their domestic possibilities and challenges, it will be one of the most prosperous nations in the world. It´s a fine country that has been led astray by i***ts.

[@holmavik6756]

@@MichelleBlessing 😆👍🏻

[@jeffreyuprichard3754]

@cooldudecs I'd say an isolated and hated Russia is finished ..

[@stahlknecht7872]

We stand with you Ukraine 💛💙

[@user-gf4kb1jb4q]

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[@yvonnewey]

Very interesting reporting👍 Slava Ukraine🇺🇦💪🇺🇦✌️

[@user-gf4kb1jb4q]

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[@hamsunfrish7464]

🇬🇧 🇺🇦 ✊

[@user-gf4kb1jb4q]

🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺)))))

[@edbaker515]

Remember Israel is a small country that has defended it well.....with all the right defence resources and planning ..... Ukraine has proven itself worthy of free world support

[@garretttobin7451]

Remember Israel the the apartheid state that has refused to implement a two state solution base don 1967 borders an grant the Palestinian a homeland, and behaves a racist rough and criminal state on the international stage.

[@SL-sd3sg]

ruZZia and Christianity in the same sentence, the mind boggles 💙💛🇬🇧

[@stefanyford5742]

One day the imperialist thinking of certain men has to end... it is unacceptable that we are in the 21st century and that kind of thinking still exists. Russia suffers sanctions because it still has Russian imperialist leaders. Democracy cannot be considered as something political but the best system for all the peoples of the world who want prosperity and peace.

[@user-gf4kb1jb4q]

🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@FireSignKennels]

Democratic countries have bloody hands as well.

[@Mike-mm4mx]

@@FireSignKennels All political systems are flawed but democracy is the second worst

[@stc3145]

@@FireSignKennels Its a statistical fact that democracy provides the best quality of life on the planet

[@FireSignKennels]

@@stc3145 democratic countries did everything In their power to suppress and undermine any attempts at different forms of government. Then demonized them. All while exploiting less developed countries. Now all we do is speak the same brainwashed propaganda your spitting now. It's an American thing... ya know. NOT THINKING WITH YOUR OWN BRAIN. It's annoying. Everyone is a product of group think.. As a black man in America I challenge all that I'm told is just a fact. As we all should be doing.

[@tgalloway]

No NATO member would attempt to fight in a war without air support. US should sell them their retiring A10's, other countries any aircraft soon to be retired, and let them rout the oncoming horde

[@alexandergraf8855]

I'm offering 30days free trial nato membership for everyone! Those who subscribe will be protected by other premium members, neighbors maybe and in the near future, a NATO account will be more valuable than health ensurance or Amazon prime, because we will turn earth into a planet of pointmen.

[@senzosanjuro1769]

The A10 is a killer tank monster, I'd like to see the masscre.

[@user-gf4kb1jb4q]

Ukraine will die .... 😊

[@theflyingspaghettimonster6462]

I am no expert, but from what i have read, russia has a lot of ground based airdefence systems. For a plane like the A10 those need to be shut down first and those systems can be stationed inside russia.

[@joecater894]

A10 would be toast... very visible on radar.. and slow..

[@SL-sd3sg]

Proud to hear shells going off in Salisbury 💙💛🇬🇧

[@aceofspades5786]

training UA on Dartmoor, here in Okehampton Devon.💙💛

[@erikals]

Thank You Britain !

[@stevevvvv]

Its crazy in modern time that people lissen 2 Puttin🤣

[@stephenhill545]

It's cool to be different for some people, and pootin is a destroyer, which appeals to some personality types.

[@snapdragon6601]

What if NATO can provide more Mig-29's but modify them to be able to use Western BVR missiles? That would be helpful.

[@currentaf8455]

Do you not understand that the jets used in liberation will also be the first priority for procurement by an increasingly militarised Europe. Poland has made an order pf f16 jets and m1abrams tanks while ignoring german leopards. Remember 5gen jets are under research and that has to paid by someone.

[@_psv__]

NATO has sent nothing. NATO members have, up to press NATO will supply nothing unless a member state is attacked. Distinctions need to be made.

[@olivere5497]

@@currentaf8455 ... blah blah, you realise that we are fighting to save democracy in western europe?

[@olivere5497]

Since december Ukrainian migs have been using a nato air to ground missile, as avionics and wiring arent compatible, its assumed the firing mechanism uses an in cockpit tablet pc.

[@snapdragon6601]

@@_psv__ That was implied, but if you want to be technical then yes, the individual countries within NATO. 🙄

[@kralikkral5560]

I am German. But from 24.2.2022 I would rather like to be British or Czech or Estonian, as now it is a real shame to be German (I meanwhile think it is no "coincidence" that Schröder did what he did and Merkel did what she did - I meanwhile think they are KGB figures. And I think that Scholz is a coward.)

[@kralikkral5560]

@@jbouchard6458 I am a normal German, 55 years old, from Bavaria. I have nothing to do with criminals in Kremlin - but it is good that you are careful.

[@crocolagerfelden6142]

@@jbouchard6458 The comment clearly states support for a tougher stance on Putin, how is the op a ruzzian troll?

[@amandadonaghey7540]

I get what you are saying. However, I believe that your country has provided enormous amounts of necessary aid whilst having to closely examine it’s position in regards to this conflict. You have gone through / are going through, a very difficult, sensitive evolution. Germany is a great nation, please don’t be ashamed 🇺🇦🇮🇪🇺🇦

[@justonecornetto80]

Merkel is ex-Stasi and speaks Russian just as well as Putin speaks German. Schröder has accounts stuffed with Putin`s roubles and Scholz was a dedicated Marxist whilst at university in the 1980s who worked for Egon Krenz. Putin being ex-KGB probably has dirt on all of them hence why Germany is sitting on the fence.

[@justonecornetto80]

@J Bouchard Calm down Maigret! Not everything is about the EU. Some people still have morals even if France doesn`t! 🤣🤣

[@johntracey6451]

Send volunteer pilots with the fighter planes ,I am sure there will be many.

[@lolikbolik4818]

Brain< completely brain

[@timonsolus]

Only if they can speak fluent Ukrainian.

[@George.Andrews.]

The russian people have been held down and stunted by their leaders for so long I hope the young ones can change things for the better.

[@konstantins1385]

All this talk towards the end about taking Kyiv...does the guest really think this within the realm of possibility? That's just as unlikely as Ukrainian tanks in the streets of Sevastopol by the end of February. From the ISW: "ISW assessed on 28 JAN that Russian leadership may be once again planning a decisive offensive based on erroneous assumptions about Russian military capabilities & likely lacks the combat power necessary to sustain more than one major offensive operation."

[@carlhash6540]

Lol, Russia 🇷🇺 will take Kiev, no matter what

[@gruntengr4197]

I have been praying the so called free world wakes up for nearly a year, is it finally happening ??

[@myronsozanskyj5467]

It was Dr. Raphael Lemkin a human rights lawyer who in 1944 defined the term "genocide". He presented the genocide of Ukrainians perpetrated by Soviet Bolshevik communists in four stages. The Holodomor Genocide 1932 -33 (death by starvation of the Ukrainian peasantry), the extermination of the Ukrainian intelligentsia, the destruction of the Ukrainian Orthodox church its parishes and clergy and the mass deportations of ethic Ukrainians from the territory of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic to remote and extreme areas of the Soviet Union and Gulag concentration camps. With the suppression of the Ukrainian language, arts and culture Ukraine became a Russified soviet satellite republic. It was the Ukrainians who showed the greatest resistance to soviet communism demonstrated by the hundreds of peasant uprisings and dissident movements and as a consequence it was the Ukrainians who suffered the most repression during the Soviet Union's reign of terror which resulted in millions of deaths. Estimates go as high as ten million victims. This is not common knowledge in the UK for some strange reason. Not taught in British schools and not commemorated alongside other genocides of Holocaust Memorial Day. Britain in fact has refused to officially recognise the genocide of Ukrainians on several occasions.

[@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044]

It's living in the past blinds us to the present

[@TheAmateursOriginalMusic]

He really sounds like Dave Gilmour✌🏻😎

[@brettbaker3271]

Couldn't agree more thank u

[@jamesbohlman4297]

In one summer, seven-hundred-plus RAF pilots soundly put eight-hundred years worth of mounted knights in the shade.

[@Conn30Mtenor]

The idea that "Russia gets to decide what's Russian territory" is an idea that needs to be defeated. Russian exceptionalism notwithstanding.

[@thanewalton6740]

How many of the MIGs are still in Europe that could be given? All the artillery that they know how to use should be there already or the next 2 weeks!

[@paulvalor8022]

11:50 Please could you learn that "Rus" and "russia" is almost the same as "The Roman Empire" and "The Holy Roman Empire". Russia disguise it self as descedaunt of Rus, but it's not.

[@braxxian]

The Poles remember what life was like under the Soviets. Never again.

[@stephenhill545]

The Russian army can't be compared with the wehrmacht. It was an extremely professional, well-equipped, well trained, well led force, well capable of combined arms operations, everything that this russian army is not.

[@LR-jk2jk]

If this is "unacceptable to the western world", why are we still debating what weapons we should or should not supply to Ukraine? Why aren't there 2000 western tanks already in Ukraine? We say one thing and do another, not cool.

[@bjorsam6979]

Britain is doing well, especially when compared to the continental Western EU; but in no shape or form is it the "most principled backer" of Ukraine. The claim is ludicrous, vacuous and self congratulatory regardless of how you measure it. Stuff given per capita? Best and most modern stuff? Public opinion? Political capital spent? You pick your yard stick, Michael Binyon, and I get to compare with Poland and the Nordic countries, what say you?

[@stephenhill545]

Estonia has given 1% of its gdp. That would be 30 billion aid. We have given 4 billion. We could do more.

[@lesterquintrell4844]

"Britain is doing well"? have you spoken to the British public lately?

[@bjorsam6979]

@@stephenhill545 Yes! Estonia gave away all it's artillery. All of it.

[@stephenhill545]

@@bjorsam6979 Absolutely brilliant from Estonia. It shows your trust and belief in Ukraine. I wish we would give Ukraine all of our challenger 2s. We will never need them.

[@bjorsam6979]

@@stephenhill545 I've asked just about everybody I know and they all want to do more. Most settle around wanting to give Ukraine about half our air force now. So something like 50 JAS-39 Gripens along with all the necessary logistics. People here have lived with the Russian threat for so long and it seems all the half suppressed freudian baggage now spur their willingness to throw everything into the fire.

[@rhondasplace3529]

I feel the NATO countries are playing games with Ukrainian lives. They said this about long range missiles, tanks, etc. Just give them what they need to possibly bring the war to a close. This drip, drip of weapons is causing more lives to be lost.

[@borovik8714]

Correction to 9:55 - Poles sent tanks in June or July, as a first together with Czechs I belive.

[@richarddenton7724]

Good man Michael Binyon - he was a huge help many years ago when we were making the series COMRADES

[@tincoffin]

He's in better nick than the Porsche 356 you sold me. 😁

[@richarddenton7724]

@@tincoffin not sure I sold you a 356.

[@wilfhenderson1962]

Germany has provided more in financial terms than the UK it is not a race or time for exceptionalism

[@Harry-tb8yo]

@adrianocelentano3997 Guilt might not be the right term for it. Those who committed those atrocities 80 years ago, those who were involved in them, most of those people are long gone. They were guilty and it is not possible to pay off such a guilt. But those who came after them, they have the responsibility to never let such things happen again.

[@UnitedUA]

-> Modern Armor & long-Range Missiles incoming!! 😃 "Evil triumphs when Good men do nothing." #PutinWarCriminal

[@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723]

Nixon did warn us about neo Imperialism,

[@damianmcgowan3614]

Yes. We all need to fight against the America Empire.

[@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723]

@@damianmcgowan3614 Bruh,

[@ruibebiano9015]

👏👏👏

[@SanctuaryLife]

Western allies led by the US UK and Germany need to put a Peace Keeper force around Kyiv, Lviv, and the border with Belarus, basically the entire western half of the country. Doing this will ensure Ukraine's safety and free up the military to fight Russia on the Eastern side.

[@a.a.7416]

It's a dream that will turn into his nightmare, if it hasn't already :)

[@ricardomews3597]

Wake up! Give all the help Ukraine needs!

[@ragingmonk6080]

Slovakia said they would give MiG-29s if America gives the green light.

[@tekannon7803]

We must realize one thing. With all due respect for those hesitating about giving Ukraine the fighter jets it needs, we must realize that to win a war in the 21st century you must have: air superiority, tactical surprise, total shock and absolute offensive strategy. Let's quit wagging our tails and put some bite into the hide of the aggressor nations by getting this conflict off the front page of every newspaper in the world. Everyone wants the Ukraine to be successful, but for the Ukrainian military to seriously make haste in closing down this absurd and immoral war, we've got to get fighter jets to Ukraine's top pilots. If all goes to plan, Crimea will fall in August of this year, but it can be done with a lot less bloodshed if Ukraine has air superiority. No one wants to hear this, but Crimea must go back into Ukraine's hands because if the war ends and Russia holds on to Crimea, the ports of Odessa will be at the mercy of Sevastopol Russian Navy base and the coastal cities on the Sea of Azov will be in permanent jeopardy.

[@bohdanharasymiw4441]

Give them grippen not F16

[@joveylndicdican1763]

We have around 80 Challenger 2 tanks that are not being upgraded to Challenger 3 so will probably be mothballed. We should send them to Ukraine even if only as a loan. The Challenger 2 is one of the best suited for what Ukraine needs to defeat Russian position during an attack backed up by combined arms support. Slava Ukraine Glory to the Heroes.

[@stephenhill545]

Agree.

[@starmnsixty1209]

Call it an extended loan, whatever you like-- just send them!🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇲 NATO 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[@mykofreder1682]

I think the callup and fights with those troops changed the secondary direct involvement. It took 6 months total war to whatever extent they are capable of by Russia to change their minds, I think they hoped for some type of stalemate and Russia doing a Georgia withdraw.

[@simianessence]

Which speech???

[@imaginemetoo]

SLAVA UKRAINI HEROES DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM ON THE FRONTLINE 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦✌️

[@user-gf4kb1jb4q]

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[@hostlands]

Britain, the US & France have a Treaty Obligation to send in troops and all the might they have to defend Ukraine as they Guarenteed the defence of Ukraine when they all pursuaded Ukraine to give up their Nuclear Capabilities in 1994. Had Ukraine kept its Nuclear arms this would nevewr have occured.

[@marquisdemoo1792]

Not quite, USA, UK, and Russia, agreed only to respect the integrity of Ukraine ourselves and to refer any other transgressions to the UN Security Council. France and China signed lesser agreements. Furthermore I suspect such nuclear weapons had probably been fabricated in the the 1970's, which would make them 50 years old now. I doubt Russia would have released the information required to command, repurpose and maintain them, so Ukraine would literally have been starting from scratch. However we do have a moral duty to support Ukraine because it is important that international treaties mean something. I would also suggest that those countries who make such a virtue of not having nuclear weapons should be more concerned that a treaty aimed towards nuclear deproliferation has been breached. Who now will give up their nuclear weapons?

[@joprocter4573]

What dream is this man on.

[@natashalall3553]

Zelensky is right we in the EU have been slow and it is our shame!

[@carlberg7503]

Despite all the pro-democracy rhetoric, the West has always been a day late and pound short in supporting Ukraine with the arms it needs to win. US, UK, and Poland have been the most generous. France and Germany have not done their part.

[@jameswarrington9402]

It’s surprising that Britain and the US are Ukraines greatest most willing backers, since Ukraine appears to be encouraged to join the EU. Ukraine would be the largest country in the EU and would eventually be a great asset.

[@dalecrocker3213]

Yes, it is a dream. And an utterly unobtainable one, as Putin has said on many occasions.

[@Harry-tb8yo]

Might be the only occasions on which he didn't lie.

[@alanrobertson9790]

Nightmare.

[@davidaemayhew]

Is a Putin victory ever going to be acceptable? Can we afford to lose? Surely not under any circumstances.

[@socrates6870]

2 comments from my side: Russia had 50 years to convince those countries to join, it could only have them in its camp by force; so it's natural that they wanted to switch camp once they got independent also for economic reasons, Russia was lagging behind with her economy; the Russians didn't veto the expansion in the NATO-Russia council in 1999, Putin was at power in 2004 when the 2nd wave of eastward expansion occurred and pretended back then to be an ally of the West in fight against terrorism, he didn't veto it back then neither; he started to complain about the collapse of the USSR after his invasion on Georgia in 2008...2nd argument: countries like Poland and the Czech Republic has an alliance treaty with the UK and the Allies before the outbreak of WWII in April 1939 and fought alongside the Western Allies trough the entire war, signed the UN Charta in 1942. Russia occupied Central Europe in 1945 and falsified the elections not allowing those countries to choose who they want to join, so Poland's return to NATO was a natural return to the Western Alliance it was part of in between 1939 and 1945...I really don't blame Finland and Sweden...it's an another example how Russia losses allies and good neighbours and self-isolates..Ukraine struggled since 1920s to have a statehood and national identity...

[@j.osborne4914]

Ukraine should be given jets and they should be able to attack any military target inside Russia from which they are attacked.

[@TheGelatinousSnake]

More importantly, Russian Anti-Air capabilities must be dealt with before putting jets everywhere. For now, training pilots and sending drones to give tanks some aircover will have to suffice.

[@thusomaepa1852]

Try

[@alainlefebvre9860]

Yes, Russia CAN be defeated. We need to stop doubting ourselves and our resolve. Russia, like the Nazis the first couple of times around, MUST be defeated.

[@FrontLinePub]

It's sad listening to how the UK talks militarily tough, yet the UK cannot recruit soldiers to join it's Army and even the US and British Generals now admit the British military isn't even a Tier One military. It's ironic that in reality, Ukraine has a substantially stronger military than the UK right now. 14 tanks, that's a training unit. Not an offensive force that's going to drive the Russians out. It's insulting. The UK has some 350 Challenger II Tanks in it's entire inventory. They might as well hand them over to Ukraine where it can make a difference. The UK won't fight themselves, they don't have munitions for than two weeks of combat, their Army has shrunk, and they still aren't serious about this fight.

[@juanbarus9420]

Not evil, just cannibal..

[@oscartrain1151]

"His dream is to restore the old Soviet Union!" Is that true? where did you hear this? what an extrodianry idea and of course bonkers if it is true, even more bonkers if it's not.

[@frederickbowdler8169]

He has to go and then Russian people will need support with a transition to an alternative regime Bringing this wall down can be and must happen and NATO needs to do it's best work. Ukraine also has to be rebuilt lots to do.

[@AnthonyD-yy2in]

It's evil and wrong but the sad thing is... it's not impossible. So many things in this world are evil and wrong. This war will not end well.😐

[@paulneeds]

AWACS?

[@agegroot5666]

Context, it's all about in what context something's been said. If he says that things happening in Ukrain wouldn't have happened if the Soviet Union had excisted doesn't mean he want the Soviet Union back. It's a fact that it wouldn't have come that far as it has. Make Britain great again doesn't mean bringing back the old days when Britain was the biggest empire on earth. In my country the Netherlands a secretary of state had to resign a couple of years ago because he lied about a business meeting with Putin and others where Putin revealed he wanted to restore the old Russian empire but the secretary of state wasn't at the meeting. Putin talking to European foreigners about conquering EU areas is a ridiculous thought!!!!.. It was a businessmeeting with CEO's of big compagnies, former CEO of Shell van de Veer who was at the meeting debunked the story of the liar,it wasn't meant that way but Putin revealed the ambition to make Russia great again but in an economic way while they have big potential.

[@dansmith3vdhrj]

I really, honestly did not like the host's dismissal of the reporter in Ukraine, and telling her what to do, and cutting her off. Total bs! The ppl on the ground in Ukraine are the ones taking the risk, and those sirens wail all the time there. She should have listened to the reporter!

[@MosmMAli]

the dutch cabinet voted in favour of supplying F16s to ukraine so why on earth is there a hold up!!!

[@sebozz2046]

Ok

[@peetky8645]

aircraft are not the best wa¥ to stop the offensive. unless the planes are stealth, they cannot fly above 200 feet an¥where near the front. super tucano with some first generation radar absorbent paint would be a better solution. low level cas near the front while still being able to shoot down cruise missile in the rear. tucano can shoot hellfire, sidewinder, laser bombs, 50cal, sdb, and cluster munitions. you can bu¥ and run 12 tucano for the price of 1 F16. operational cost is 1/10th

[@devrerffs]

What does CAS give you that high precision artillery can't?

[@TheIndCurmudgeon]

Or you could fly something like a HARM equipped F16 and let the flight computer take out all the air defense systems on your way to the target. A couple runs like that and soon the 200 feet problem is not so big. That opens a lot of possibilities. That sounds like that could be a really good start. That my opinion for what it's worth...

[@DeathWishMonkey]

@@devrerffs Fighter jets can strike at deep troop concentratons, are less likely to be unavailable during fast troop movements that left the artillery behind, and generally put more destructive power on target. The advantage of artillery is responsiveness and less latency between missions requests and strikes. In the skies over Ukraine, you probably want high performance jets because the slow ones are more vulnerable.

[@peetky8645]

@@TheIndCurmudgeon s300 and s400 have much longer range than HARM. non-stealth plane would be smoked before it got close. jamming equipped wild weasel fighters are all f18 and those will not be let anywhere near a conflict with russia or china in fear of losing the tech. if you could launch a glsdb missile from altitude, you might gain enough range to be able to hit an s300 or s400 but launching from altitude lets the s¥stem see ¥ou.

[@joecater894]

very slow though... maybe better against militants than a professional military.

[@peetky8645]

in turnabout is fair play, the west should recognize siberia as part of china.

[@dearmas9068]

Lol... stop it...

[@simons1543]

Mariella - Cool, sexy, smart and talented as ever. What a great journalist and presenter she is

[@olivere5497]

Once he gets back the territory, will he have a state managed economy and bring back the old flag?

[@digbe9308]

Feed him to the croc 🐊👍

[@pwrofmusic]

EU is in the center of the war UK and some EU countries are far from the war in terms of land distance. So the countries closer are pushing but don't have the financial capabilities of the countries further away.

[@margarethakloots5287]

No without air protection, the tanks will be destroyed within no time!

[@ItsaRomethingeveryday]

Never been one to take much notice of conflicts/ Wars but this time I am, and I Fully support Ukraine 💯, Putin is very wrong for doing this, 🇺🇦SLAVA UKRAINE 🇺🇦

[@RobinPhillips1957]

Ukraine needs A10 Warthogs, NOT F16s. A10s are easy to fly, provide high ground support levels, high survivability from ground fire. Far more use in theatre than posh F16s.

[@buckbenelli8]

The only way humanity thrives and survives is if we all work together in harmony, sustainability and cooperation. Ain’t gonna happen.

[@DavidGetling]

Putin dreams of being another tsar. Hmm. let me see: Ivan the Terrible Catherine the Great Putin the Incontinent

[@grendalsnap7158]

Putin does not dream of being another tsar. The USA however, has 100's of bases throughout the world. Has invaded/regime changed over 60 countries. Who is the tyrant?

[@zapfanzapfan]

Putin the Poisoner...

[@rollinkendal8130]

Putin the Groin

[@grendalsnap7158]

@@zapfanzapfan It's the Ukrainians using chemical weapons. Therefore, Zalenski the Poisoner.

[@Harry-tb8yo]

Putin the Botox posterboy.

[@Unicorn-on9to]

The question why he visits London and not Berlin.....: Well, the UK is not in the EU anymore, therefore he had to do this separately. The UK, like the EU countries, is a big supporter of Ukraine, and he can't address the UK in the EU Parliament.

[@stephenhill545]

He visited the US and UK because we guarenteed ukraine's borders in 1994, so we are obliged to uphold them.

[@huntergameson9665]

When you are about to lose your job and you are hating on the new guy

[@douglasbruce4991]

??

[@funcreator1726]

Putin s latptop most searched history:- Lenin on top of me

[@ED-es2qv]

They took half the country back by having plentiful himars and artillery. It’s a little hard to understand how now we should spend the bulk of money on airplanes. I think they will shoot their own planes down if the Russians don’t. When every unit has manpads, every unit needs to know about every aircraft. The US solves this by being the only planes alive before troops are there. Not really an option when you don’t have the three largest Air Forces in the world, all working together.

[@michaellattimore876]

So why aren't the Russians in Tbilisi?

[@daviddunne4737]

Empires do not come back , sorry PUTLER .

[@blacksmith88]

Good old tyranny instead of wisdom. Actually he didn't need any wisdom because there was only one way up from the 1991 crash.