'Liz Truss is playing with fire and it is the Ukrainian people who will get burnt... A ceasefire and peace talks are the urgent need, not fueling a conflict that will see thousands more Ukrainian people killed.' STWuk
Aggressive rhetoric from both the U.K. and U.S. in recent days amounts to"a demand for endless war," warned one critic.Anti-war campaigners warned that British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss' aggressive rhetoric at an event in London Wednesday could dangerously provoke Russian President Vladimir Putin, who warned the same day that further intervention by NATO countries in the war in Ukraine will be met with"lightning-fast" retaliation.
"A ceasefire and peace talks are the urgent need, not fueling a conflict that will see thousands more Ukrainian people killed and will risk escalation into an all out NATO-Russia war." In light of Putin's invasion, the NATO target calling for 2% of national spending to be used for defense should be seen as a"floor, not a ceiling," Truss added.that countries will face dire consequences if they"intervene in the ongoing events from the outside and create strategic threats for Russia that are unacceptable to us.
Truss is not the only Western leader whose recent comments have concerned anti-war groups and international experts. In Kiev this week, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin
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