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Former U.K. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, who became the country’s prime minister last week, has pledged to continue to keep ramping up the Ukraine War and fight for Russia’s defeat with the same energy as her scandal-plagued predecessor Boris Johnson.
The Conservative Party said Truss defeated her top challenger, Rishi Sunak, the former Treasury head, with about 57 percent of the vote.
Truss, 47, has been a vocal supporter of Ukraine. She used her first foreign call to ring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and accepted an invitation to visit Ukraine. The U.K. has been a major weapons provider to Kyiv and has sent almost 7,000 anti-tank weapons and hundreds of missiles.
No Peace, Only War
Totally silent on peace negotiations, Truss, like Johnson, has done nothing but flame the fire in Ukraine and raise tension with Russian President Vladimir Putin. The former foreign secretary pushed the world to the brink of nuclear Armageddon in February when Moscow blamed her rhetoric for placing its nuclear forces on high alert.
The invasion was just a few days old when Truss told a British news outlet, “If we don’t stop Putin in Ukraine, we are going to see others under threat: the Baltics, Poland, Moldova, and it could end up in a conflict with NATO. We do not want to go there.”
Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, said the remarks about a NATO clash with Russia was “unacceptable.”
Truss, a Tory, also raised eyebrows recently when she said would be willing to launch nuclear weapons, even if it meant the end of life on Earth.
TRENDPOST: American war hawk, John Bolton, the former national security adviser under President Trump, wrote a column in The Wall Street Journal about Truss’s rise to the top of British politics. He noted that Johnson, in his farewell to Parliament, advised his colleagues that they should “stay close to the Americans.” (See “STOLTENBERG WANTS TO KEEP FIGHTING WAR,” “WEAPONS POURING INTO UKRAINE, NO TALK OF PEACE, JUST MORE AMMUNITION” and “UK’S JOHNSON PROMISES MORE WEAPONS OF DEATH TO KEEP BLOODYING THE UKRAINIAN KILLING FIELDS.”)
Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson was one of the West’s top supporters of Ukraine since the conflict began and “positioned himself” as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s “man in the West.”
Bolton said these words “are strange to American ears because we seldom hear them, even from our closest friends. Mr. Johnson meant it, and there is no doubt Ms. Truss agrees.”
The U.S. State Department congratulated Truss and said in a statement that it looks forward to continuing its close cooperation “on a range of important priorities, including continued support to Ukraine in the face of Russia’s war.”
In May, Truss said the war in Ukraine could last up to 10 years. Ignoring the fact that by keeping the war going more people will be killed and cities destroyed, Truss said the West cannot allow Putin to succeed because a Russian victory would lead to “untold further misery across Europe and terrible consequences across the globe.”
Putin Calls Truss’s Win ‘Undemocratic’
Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized the process in which Truss was named the new British prime minister.
“In the UK, the procedure for electing the head of state is far from democratic,” he told the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok. “It takes place within the framework of the party that won the previous parliamentary election. The UK people do not participate in the change of government in this case.”
Truss was asked if she will end up calling for a general election any time soon and she said, “We are facing very serious issues as a country, partly as a result of the aftermath of Covid, partly as a result of Putin’s war in Ukraine. What the British public want is they want a Government that is going to sort it out. That is what I’m determined to do as Prime Minister, sort out the energy crisis, get our economy going, make sure people can get doctors’ appointments, that’s what I’m focused on.”
TRENDPOST: Judge Andrew Napolitano noted during OccupyPeace.com’s ‘Peace & Freedom Rally’ held in July in Kingston, N.Y. (WATCH), that governments use wars to increase their power over the public. We watched the same thing happen during the COVID-19 War when these politicians were locking down our way of life.
Truss’s solution to fight the energy crisis in the U.K. is to throw money at it. CNBC reported that 170,000 people in the U.K. are planning to stop paying their energy bills on 1 October because they can no longer afford to pay them.
The End Fuel Poverty Coalition said about 12 million households in Britain will be unable to adequately heat their homes this winter. The report noted that the precise amount has not been released but could be up to 100 billion euros worth of support.
Truss plans on freezing the cost of gas and electricity rates for two years.
“This is a moment to be bold,” Truss said to the House of Commons, according to The New York Times. “We are facing a global energy crisis, and there are no cost-free options.”