I'm a bit perplexed that there isn't more pushback on Starmer's commitment to sending our troops into a post war Ukraine.
Is it just me or isn't this a guarantee of British body bags? We would be sending our lads into an impossible situation similar to trying to keep the peace in Northern Ireland (which there was a point to because it's our own people) or Israel/Palestine post WW2 where they would become targets.
Post peace agreement there will be hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian troops coming back having lost a war into an economy that doesn't have jobs, housing nor post war welfare for them. But it will have a hell of a lot of weapons. It's a powder keg that's quickly going to result into internal strife and we are sending our people into that to attempt to force a peace.
There would be only one way to avoid a civil war and that would be massive....and I'm talking Marshall plan levels of investment into Ukraine to avoid this. People call Trump stupid but this is one of the reasons he's pulled out of paying for Ukraine. Instead those costs would fall on Europe.
It's a hiding to nothing....I've said it many times and it's a feature of this war. It's a policy that gets us zero gain but costs us significantly.....Somewhat a recurring outcome of British governments post 2000.
There should be protests about a military involvement in Ukraine post peace agreement....before we do it....because it's not hard predicting that those protests begin once those body bags start arriving.
Don't send our lads over there to be sitting ducks.
