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Boris Johnson calls on US to give Ukraine fighter planes
Boris Johnson has confronted US Republicans’ scepticism about providing more arms to Ukraine, saying it was time to give Kyiv the tools – including F16 aircrafts – to reclaim land taken by Vladimir Putin since the 24 February invasion.
He also said he now supported ending the ambiguity by allowing Ukraine to join Nato.
With support for Ukraine slipping in US opinion polls, Johnson has used a speech to the Atlantic Council thinktank, TV appearances, an article in the Washington Post and meetings with senior Republican senators to try to stiffen US resolve. His visit was understood to be a freelance operation and not on behalf of Number 10.
He said: “Give them the deep fire artillery systems, give them the tanks, give them the planes, because they have a plan. They know what they need to do.”
He dismissed claims that the Ukrainians would be unable to fly sophisticated US planes, saying Ukraine had already shown their ability to use modern Nato technology. Referring to the repeated debates inside Europe about the risk of escalation if a specific weapon was provided, he said that these debates had all ended with agreement to provide the weapons. “Let us do it now and end this delay because that is the humane thing to do.”
Admitting his thinking had changed, he said there was an inescapable logic to offering Ukraine Nato membership, saying Putin had ended the argument to keep Ukraine out of Nato by invading.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...on-calls-on-us-to-give-ukraine-fighter-planes
He's already totally fucked his own country, killed thousands of people in the Covid scandal, been caught partying while Brits were on lockdown, fined by the police , fired by his political party and is still being investigated for further lies to parliament.
What could go wrong ?