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[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Same. I started thinking “why, that stupid shit-for-brains…” and had to reel that in with the last few words.

::confused slow clap::

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

My instinctive hostility towards anything he does or says

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

When it came to the Ukraine situation, he has, in general, not missed a beat.

The UK has given an impressive amount of gear to the Ukrainians given the size of the UK military, whilst everyone else was dithering and wondering what to give and how much to ensure they still had some stuff at home, the UK attitude was "give them all the things and we'll worry about it later".

Obviously countries like Poland had to be more cautious.

A lot of training and intelligence has been given to Ukraine as well. The UK continues to host Ukrainian troops for training.

The UK even made binding "boots on the ground" support agreements to Norway and Sweden in case Russia tried anything during their NATO membership process.

UK gave a bunch of Challenger 2 tanks with "do what you like with them" terms, not just "pwease don't shooty shoot on Wussian tewwitory" nonsense. This was a token gesture as actually Ukraine really wanted the German stuff but it opened the door a bit to basically embarrass Germany into getting it's act together.

As much as I don't like the man, Johnson did well when it came to supporting Ukraine, and credit should be given where it is due.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, I think we can all be thankful that all of the major British political parties were united on the need to support Ukraine. As my Ukrainian friends will always point out - Don't think of it as Europe "helping" Ukraine - instead think of it as Ukraine taking the brunt of Russian aggression to save Europe.