To be alarmed at Starmers plans

[Rubytuesday77]

Anybody else worried about his ongoing plans for deeper involvement in Ukraine. In an interview yesterday he said he intends to send our troops out there. Surely this would mean we’d be at war with Russia! Anyone else very concerned.

I'm hoping that Trump will bring an end to it all.

Will this bastard Starmer send his sons to fight? Like Blair did not send his sons to Iraq? Or better still, let fat Starmer go and fight - he is all for it. I don't want our boys to die, why do we have to be involved in every conflict?

Good for him? Will you go and fight? Will your sons and daughters go? Or you want to send somebody else's children there? Good for him, my arse.

We are not going to be sending the UK's young to fight in Ukraine. Stop the ridiculous hyperbole.

You're getting awfully hot under the collar about something that is not going to happen, almost as if you were setting out to be inflammatory.

No, they are paid to protect OUR country, not to fight foreign interventions and wars.

Well the orange one is talking tough.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/22/trump-threatens-putin-with-taxes-tariffs-and-sanctions-over-ukraine-war

I'd hazard a guess that any back and forth between Trump and Putin has already been rehearsed and scheduled and pre-planned. Regarding Starmer, you have to remember that though is relatively new to the post of prime minister, the people working in the military and ministry of defence are not new, and they will be working very closely together. Better or worse than anyone else, who can say, but I'd not look to most newspapers to inform my opinion of how well Starmer is or isn't doing. We're already at war, the constant technological attacks, ships, planes, drones, the countries funding Russia, we're already well and truly in it.

Why does MN allow the site to host blatant disinformation? It is ridiculous.

And that’s sad, but surely you understand then that people want to keep their families safe? That we don’t want to put a target on our backs?

Link please? All that has been reported is UK personnel's possible role in peacekeeping.

Thanks. That's next year's Christmas presents sorted.

I often think that many of the ills of today's world are caused by people believing, without any checking, any old bollocks they read on SM.

Much as I disagreed with the war in Iraq, Blair sent the military, there was no conscription.

There is that

But a war we should never have been involved with anyway. Same old story repeating itself. The rest of Europe is probably laughing themselves silly - ‘let the UK go and sort it, they always like to flex their muscles and put themselves in the middle of everything. Idiots’

There is already a target on the UK, a country with one of the highest terrorist threat levels that never seems to go down. My children were born in the UK, British citizens. I understand what it means to want to keep your children safe, that’s why I still reside here. We have relocated family and friends from Ukraine, not under a funded scheme but from our own funds. But we have two nephews, an uncle and family friends who have already paid the price with their lives. The threats from terror groups are higher than that of Putin, you realise that the UK is constantly on high alert for terrorism? But you still go about your everyday life. Unless your children are in the military then they are unlikely to be killed by Putin, but a far higher chance of being killed by another teenager with a knife or a terrorist attack. As a British person, it is unlikely in your lifetime that you will ever know the cost of true freedom - because you have never lived under occupation or through war.

Hopefully he's successful and puts an end to it once and for all.

Not coming back to your thread with a link @Rubytuesday77

What a shock.

Much as I can't stand the man, I agree.

He has a better chance than anyone else in last two years, for the ME too

So many young men dying each day in this war, it's horrendous

What are these nuances?

He has one son. He is below military age.

Not sure l would be listening to Putin on this...

Problem is that there are not a lot of imports from Russia and you cannot impose tariffs on nonexistent trade.