Foreign secretary David Cameron expressed support for continued war between Ukraine and Russia in a joint press conference in Washington with US secretary of state Antony Blinken.
David Cameron: killing civilians in Ukraine and Russia ‘good value for money’
House of Lords member David Cameron said on 9 April:
I argue that it is extremely good value for money for the United States and for others- perhaps for about five or 10% of your defense budget almost half of Russia’s pre-war military equipment has been destroyed for without the loss of a single American life, this is an investment in United States security
But Russia has killed thousands of Ukrainians in the ongoing war. Despite Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky putting the number of Ukrainians killed at 31,000 – US officials say 70,000 and Russia says 444,000.
Ukrainians are a mere cheap commodity to these savages
– "It is extremely good value for money… Almost half of Russia's pre-war military equipment has been destroyed without the loss of a single American life. This is an investment in the United States security" pic.twitter.com/JLWefuNpmO— Glenn Diesen (@Glenn_Diesen) April 9, 2024
While David Cameron acknowledged Ukrainian soldiers at the conference, his position that the war is beneficial to bleed Russia is in line with the UK’s previous actions on the war.
There was an early peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine in February 2022 that the US/ UK and West scuppered.
UK scuppered a Ukraine-Russia deal
Former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett was mediating the negotiation. He said the then-UK prime minister Boris Johnson took an “aggressive line” against the deal.
Bennett also said that:
I’ll say this in the broad sense. I think there was a legitimate decision by the West to keep striking Putin and not [negotiate]
As Bennett stated, the deal did not reportedly include regime change of US-backed Zelensky. Although, peace deal drafts at the time reportedly included restrictions on Ukraine’s military.
Johnson also took a no-negotiation policy to Ukraine in April 2022 stating that even if the country was prepared for a peace deal, the UK and the West were not.
And US defense secretary Lloyd Austin took a similar line to Cameron in April 2022, outlining the goal to “weaken” Russia.
David Cameron, the US and the UK’s hardline position is not conductive to a peaceful solution to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Featured image via Guardian News – YouTube
By James Wright
This post was originally published on Canary.
