October 11, 2024
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Putin has two trump cards. The first is he will send wave after wave of Russian citizens to their deaths knowing he is insulated from domestic rebellion. The second is he doesn’t really believe we mean it when we say “he must fail and Ukraine must be victorious”.

Netanyahu shows us how to win in Ukraine – hit your enemy ruthlessly

The UK should now send troops to support Kyiv. Putin can, and must, be defeated

Whether you agree or don’t agree with the Israeli prime minister’s methods (I don’t), Israel is showing the world that UN talk and asking people nicely doesn’t work.

Benjamin Netanyahu is showing that if you want to see your plans through nothing beats determination and unilaterally sticking to national interest come what may. He knows that to achieve your aims you sometimes have to risk international popularity and not hide in the niceties of the diplomatic cocktail circuits.

Netanyahu knows many people and nations just want the current crisis to go away. I was always struck as defence secretary how many people would ask me, “When will it all be over?” – as if these conflicts were interrupting them watching their favourite soap opera.

I dislike Netanyahu for many reasons but the diplomatic blob seems to forget that in his eyes he is fighting for every dead concert goer, every hostage and every part of the Jewish community. He himself was once injured in Lebanon freeing hostages and his brother was killed on the Entebbe raid in 1976.

The Israeli prime minister means what he is doing and he knows the international community will take so long to actually do anything that he must just get on with it. For if he doesn’t, no one else will help protect Israel.

Our dear Foreign Office is perplexed why he hasn’t listened to calls for restraint from us and others. Bless them. They really haven’t a clue. So obsessed has the FCDO become on chairing sub committees at the UN that it can’t recognise the real world when it sees it.

One of the most important parts of a military plan is “the maintenance of the aim”. Stick to it. Drive it. Mean it.

It is why I have said in these pages before that Britain’s soft power must always be backed up by hard power. Ready, deployable and lethal.

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See Also:

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European defense manufacturer KNDS opens office in Ukraine

They’re Still There: Kremlin Misses Putin’s Hard Deadline to Kick Ukrainians Out of Russia

New NATO Chief Takes Office, Declares Ukraine a Priority, Can Work With Trump

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