The Guardian: No 10 shrugs off Trump envoy’s claim that Starmer’s Ukraine policy amounts to posturing

There is some spring temperament in the air.
As the US tries to retreat from Project Ukraine by finding a peace agreement with Russia, some European leaders have increased their willingness to confront Russia. It is still not clear for what and the absence of an understandable purpose can make an envoy of Donald Trump ask publicly if all the sable rattling in the UK is just posturing? The sable rattling and the war rhetoric in the rest of Europe allowed the European nations, all first Germany, to raise monstrous amounts of debt, precisely out of fear of Vladimir Putin. But the UK, not anymore member of the EU, and financially stretched to its limits may not be able to raise such huge debt and may not be able to profit financially from the Putin-phobia. So, why the UK is calling to the arms, why is it calling for a Coalition of the Willing to march against Russia?

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