The Minister of Foreign Affairs and former British Prime Minister David Cameron called on American congressmen not to repeat with Russian President Vladimir Putin the mistakes made during the policy of concessions to Hitler, and to urgently approve the decision on multibillion-dollar military aid to Ukraine, the BBC reported.
“I don’t want us to show the weakness shown to Hitler in the 1930s […] I don’t want us to show the weakness shown to Putin in 2008 when he invaded Georgia, or the uncertainty of our response in 2014 when he seized Crimea and much of the Donbas – only to carry out another act of aggression in 2022 ., which will cost us much more,” Cameron wrote in an article in the American online publication “The Hill”.
“It is difficult to imagine a more vivid example of how one country attacks another without any reason,” Cameron convinced the American congressmen.
“On one side is Putin, who hopes to expand his empire by simply overpowering the West. He thinks we’re weak. He thinks he can get away with this act of aggression, the most shocking we’ve seen in our lifetime si”, writes the head of the Foreign Office.
“And on the other side is us,” Cameron continues. “We have the resources, the economic power, the knowledge. Our economy is 25 times stronger than Russia’s. They have had to turn to Pyongyang for help. All we have to do is use our power. The question is : do we have the will?”
Cameron devoted a separate paragraph to speculation, popular for at least the first year and a half of the war, that the transfer of advanced weapons to Ukraine could lead to some kind of escalation. Cameron rejects them.
“We have proved that the danger of escalation is an illusion. Britain was the first to provide everything from anti-tank weapons to artillery, tanks and now long-range assets such as Storm Shadow missiles. Each time Putin made belligerent statements about escalation – and each time it turned out to be just rhetoric,” recalled the former British prime minister.
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