Can the UK keep its promises to Ukraine? | Nicholas Williams
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- "If the UK is serious about this ... then it has to increase its defence expenditure."
Former head of NATO operations in Iraq Nicholas Williams says the UK does not have the budget and the forces to help Ukraine as Boris Johnson promised it.
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Confused man with confused talks 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I understand this man is retired, and had served the free world honorably, but this discussion albeit a thoughtful one on his part underscores the dire need for intelligent, and more youthful, energetic leadership.
Secondly, and bluntly I will add that the time for talk, and hand clasping repose is well past.
Now is a time, a moment in history where every free nation, Nato or not must mobilize every facet of their respective society in manufacturing, food production, energy production, and military industrial production.
If this means raising your budgets, then raise your budgets. In addition, and unfortunately there was a man in power recently that warned of all this, and demanded all free nations raise their defense budgets, and he was scoffed at.
That man was absolutely correct, and right on the money. He was also dead right about Russian gas. He also wanted to buy Greenland so he could pipeline American oil production right to Europe.
This no longer matters now because it's too late. Now it's panic time. Now your very survival is possibly imperiled, or could be.
I will state clearly, you advertise for business when you have lots of business, not when you run out of business, because by then it's too late.
So, enough backbiting, enough politicking, enough posturing, enough grandstanding, enough is enough.
It is well beyond time to roll up our collective, and individual sleeves, and do the actual work of defending our livelihoods.
Better get to work folks. Our adversaries are already executing their long planned actions.
Thank you,
Glory to God,
Victory for Ukraine,
Rise Free Nations!
A lot of talking in roundabouts to say very little
Should have been a politician .
We have underspent on defence for many years, it cannot be repaired easily and we need to expand our defence budget to at least 4% of GDP, more warships, more fighters, more ASW and transport, and expand the army to 120k at least. Tanks, artillery, rocket forces, anti aircraft - everything, And we have to be able to fight globally - Russia is undermining the little democracy that exists in Africa, pushing into the Arctic and north Scandinavia, It's using natural resources control to intimidate the rest of the world.
The United States contributes 8% of GDP.
Yeah. Shame we just left the worlds third largest economic group and flushed future prosperity away for generations. In 2030 we will have one division of adequately equipped troops and a dozen really great jets that will last three days. But...Our passports are not blue.
Unfortunately, please forgive me, your prime minister is a joke too.
Your opinion is irrelevant so you might as well keep it to yourself
@@eddiel7635 no hes right the faster you biscuit eating buck tooth poms get him out the better
Don't need to forgive you, mate! You're absolutely right!
@@eddiel7635 But BZ is correct and we all know it. His opinion isn't irrelevant. And nor is Vladimir Putins. Both probably share the same opinion, I'd imagine.
LOL Reporter realizing the dude knows nothing.
The ones who are allowed to talk have zero idea people like Douglas MacGregor have been blacklisted even removed off social media to try keep the narrative going
Russia started to invade Ukraine when Russia underestimated her military power while she underrated Ukraine`s defense capability. The same goes for China and Taiwan. So it`s crucial to demonstrate strong unity between Taiwan, the United States, Japan and other democratic nations in order to deter China`s military adventurism.
With Biden installed as president the party he represents has been tearing down the United States bit by bit while allowing the invasion to continue through the southern border of the United States and shutting down oil production which is the life blood of everything, the DEMOCRAT POLITICIANS PARTY have gone treasonous.
@@russell4370 the problem is more involved than you think
Taiwan is indisputable part of China.
Not so Scotland of UK.
Going head on at China is a grave error in judgement. The goal in Ukraine is not to have them win .... it's to sell them old weaponry so they can tool up for China, and bleed Ukraine dry. Ukraine is almost running on empty.
@@omidpourhossein Ukraine is losing big time.... Russia is doing good with what they are using during the operation
personally i think we have done very well so far when it comes to helping ukraine and i think we can sustain it aslong as it isnt over the top spending compared to everything else
Bojo has done more with our taxpayers money to help Ukraine then that idiot has done for his own people and Zelenskyy is still asking for more but never asked for water, food or medicine ? The media are the enemy
@Victor Bonello Ah bless, the only time you can live test weapons is in a war, weapons are worth far more then the few billion dollars worth given to stockpiling Zelenskyy
Of course we can, can we afford not to? The world needs to be safe for future generations.
England's army is weak is what he's trying to say... dam I thought Biden was slow
England doesn't have a army
@@marcphelan9883 they do actually a small 1 that consists of 70k troops
@@TheDisinformationProjectNz no england doesn't have an army ,maybe you think England Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland have an army each but they don't, its called the British army 😉
@@marcphelan9883 Samesame it's small
@@TheDisinformationProjectNz don’t be absurd.
5:48 A moment of honesty. "Britain really doesn't have the armed forces or defense budget to do this." Then lots of prevarications by the guy who did such an astounding job as Nato commander in Afghanistan, surely one of Britain's great moments of glory.
"eh, ehrm, ehrm" don't waste my time. What did the guy even say in this interview?
Too much humming and hahing
His brain has some loose connections, but he’s got it right with the point about overkill .
❤️Ukrainian 🇬🇪
His thoughts are not very clear, answers are not quite pertinent, neither is his articulation, isn't it?
Thanks!
You gotta love it! Almost all of nato except the United States has underspent their treaty commitment for years. Now the same countries that have underspent for years are now going to exceed the treaty target of 2% by going to 2.5%. So having been unable to meet 2% we are now going to install a even more unobtainable goal of 2.5% and oh by the way we're gonna reach that goal by maybe 8 years from now.
No sensible defence budget is unobtainable. And defence budgets in democratic countries are rarely enough. It's basically a matter of democratic will. Most people in most countries tend to vote for larger pensions, or better funded police, or better schools before spending money in defence. You could solve this just by changing the democratic process to something else but that might be self defeating because I think it is democracy that we are fighting for. It's worth pointing out that the USA has not got great value out of its enormous defence spending. We have had 20 years or more of badly considered, expensive and pointless wars that ultimately have left the USA about as badly prepared as everyone else for this situation now happening in Ukraine. So sure, the Americans can give more military assistance than say France. But proportionally, given the enormous size of the us population and economy, is it really as effective as it should be?
Trump should have left NATO like he said. Then Russia could have had free reign to conquer what Trumps best friend putin liked. Thats the saddest thing about the stolen election. Russia never got its dreams of a second trump term. Remember MAGA people. Vote with me in 24 and Make Commies great again.
@@tommiatkins3443 Well Putin's buddy Brandon did him a solid by removing the pipeline Sanctions almost as soon as he got in office. Brandon also did his buddy Putin a solid by stating in January of this year that there probably wouldn't be any response if Russia had a "minor" incursion into Ukraine. At this point Putin said "message received and understood good buddy" and invaded Ukrain a month later.
But orange man bad..bwahahahaha.
I caution Ukraine to keep in mind That as President Brandon's approval ratings keep plummeting due to his Abysmal failings at home and and as the DNC realizes that they're going to get slaughtered in November I'm afraid that Brandon's support for Ukraine will evaporate the instant they think it is affecting the outcome of the November election. For now Brandon is desperately grasping at everything is Putin's fault but that song is getting old.
Means nothing. If you break national and international laws with no hesitation or compunction and with impunity, what's a few broken promises here and there?
Johnson knows it's no big deal.
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"Former head of NATO operations in Iraq Nicholas Williams says the UK does not have the budget and the forces to help Ukraine as Boris Johnson promised it", which brings one to the sobering reality when one look's at Boris Johnson's very poor track record of keeping his promises.
Poor track record? Is there a promise he kept?
@@tommiatkins3443 That's why I wrote "very poor track record", note the "VERY".
Eye rolling interviewer says it all!
🤔 What?
Erm uh erm uh
Yes can see why he is retired
This guy is struggling to make sense and should stay retired
If Boris can't keep this promise; another PM will have to.
The governor of the BOE brexiteer Andrew Bailey said we would have the lowest growth economy in the world apart from Russia so 2.5% of a smaller amount is not so good. Also can’t imagine the Russian oligarchs funding Johnson would like a real increase in the defence budget. The state of the UK armed forces are pitiful.
🎽🇺🇦🎖️🏅war hero zelenski
to visit London 🇬🇧 soon...
War criminal
The United States contributes 8% of GDP.
Actually not. Numbers are 3.1 percent of GDP in 2022 and declining to 2.7 percent of GDP in 2032.
It was over 8 percent during the Vietnam war. Source: U.S. Department of Defence.
@@stafida8624 Could be that’s our overall military spending.
BoJo will keep promise and defund everyone to keep Ukraine winning.
Man is destined for historical greatness