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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who has been one of the most outspoken critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin, said during a trip to India last week that the UK could send tanks to Poland if Warsaw decides to send tanks into Ukraine.
“We are looking more at what we can do to backfill in countries such as Poland, who may want to send heavier weaponry to help defend the Ukrainians,” Johnson said, according to the Financial Times.
Johnson became the first Western leader to admit that Russia could end up winning the war with its neighbor. He said it was a “realistic possibility.”
“Putin has a huge army,” Johnson said. “He has a very difficult political position because he’s made a catastrophic blunder. The only option he now has really is to continue to try to use his appalling grinding approach led by artillery, trying to grind the Ukrainians down. He’s very close to securing a land bridge in Mariupol. The situation is, I’m afraid, unpredictable at this stage, but we’ve just got to be realistic about it.”
Western countries have tried to present Ukraine as a legitimate challenge for Putin and one “senior EU official” called Johnson’s comment “ridiculous.”
New Zealand Joins “Lethal Aid” Murderers Club
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Arden said the country was sending a “significant contribution: of “lethal aid” to Ukraine to fight the Russians.
In addition to the military armaments, Arden said New Zealand troops would also provide “logistical support and people power” in the distribution of the “enormous quantities of military support that countries are contributing” in the fight to beat Russia.
Totally ignoring all the nations that are not supplying “lethal aid” and are not critical of Russia’s invasion, Arden declared that the weapons surge was part of a “global effort to support Ukraine against Russia’s invasion
TRENDPOST: As we have been reporting since the start of the war on 24 February, Western countries have been flooding Ukraine with a record amount of weapons.
But they have also kept in mind that certain weapons could escalate the war, like tanks and fighter jets. (See “WEAPONS POURING INTO UKRAINE, NO TALK OF PEACE, JUST MORE AMMUNITION,” “WARMONGERS ON PARADE: WEST SENDS MORE WEAPONS TO UKRAINE TO KEEP THE KILLINGS GOING” and “U.S. SENDING UKRAINE $500M FOR MORE MURDER WEAPONS.”)
Western countries have recently shown more of a willingness to transfer heavier artillery to Ukraine. France will send 155mm CAESAR wheeled self-propelled howitzers and Poland may send T-72 tanks. The Drive reported that Slovenia will send M-84 tanks.
Johnson’s meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was closely watched, given New Delhi’s close relationship with Moscow. Johnson told reporters that Modi tried to intervene with Putin “several times” and asked him “what on earth he thinks he is doing, and where he thinks this is going.”
TRENDPOST: Gerald Celente, the publisher of the Trends Journal, accused the United States and NATO of prolonging the war by sending more armaments to Ukraine that will lengthen the war, lead to more deaths and destruction of the nation rather than taking ceasefire measures to negotiate for peace.
Celente has pointed out that Napoleon sent 420,000 brave young men to defeat Russia and 410,000 were killed. He also pointed to Hitler’s Operation Barbarossa campaign that resulted in the deaths of 27 million Russians, who still ended up defeating Germany.
And Mr. Celente is among the very few calling for peace, and for nations to stop sending military armaments to Ukraine and end the needless death and destruction. He has said that the U.S. and NATO cannot defeat Russia in a military conflict.