[Breaking] London Step Ahead Mitigate-and-Prepare Biden Lose Election: Meeting David Cameron - Trump, about Ukraine and Gaza
American choice in 2024 is between a man who Democratic insiders have assured on the record doesn't care about Palestinian lives versus a man who calls immigrants vermin and animals.
Mar-a-Lago, 0.21am
UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron is holding talks with Donald Trump in Florida amid a push to shore up support for Ukraine and advance a new package of aid that is held up in Congress. For more context, in last 7 weeks, David Cameron apparently has a ‘tough’ - critical and cynical about Israel operation in Gaza, rather than his counterpart in US [Blinken]. David Cameron has a [ancestry] German Jewish, and same Jewish like Blinken.
In a statement on Monday, a Foreign Office spokesperson said: “Ahead of his visit to Washington, the foreign secretary will meet former President Trump in Florida today. It is standard practice for ministers to meet with opposition candidates as part of their routine international engagement.”
Cameron’s discussion with the presumptive Republican presidential candidate, believed to be the first such meeting by a senior UK minister with Trump since he left office, covered Ukraine, the war in Gaza and dynamic situation in ICJ [The Hague], and the future of NATO. Starvation is a war crime under the Rome Statute and may also legally be considered a crime against humanity and/or part of an act of genocide.
Personally, I don't think that Trump would be *better* on Israel/Palestine than Biden but I do think that Trump understands instinctually how bad the current situation looks in a way that Biden does not. And this has everything to do with Biden's ideological commitments and Trump's lack of ideological commitments beyond what looks good on TV.
17 million views of tweet [don’t know total click], via CBS, JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, as reportedly try to run primary candidate from Democratic party, [Jamie] says he worries geopolitical events and U.S. political polarization "may very well be creating risks that could eclipse anything since World War II."
Daily Mail, UK. Same UK like David Cameron and PM Rishi Sunak.
Trump has repeatedly voiced misgivings about aid to Ukraine and questioned America’s commitment to NATO, the international alliance which the US has committed to defending when necessary. Trump has repeatedly [too] voiced misgivings about new weapon package for Israel, and or, will end immediately war in Gaza.
On his visit to Washington, Cameron will warn that success for Kyiv in defeating Russia is “vital for American and European security” as he urges lawmakers across to approve “urgent” further assistance for the country.
He will hold talks with his US counterpart, Antony Blinken, the national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, and the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, and is hoping to meet the House speaker, Mike Johnson, whose colleagues are preventing the vote on an extra $60bn (£47bn) of Ukraine aid. He is not scheduled to meet US president Joe Biden.
Lord Cameron will push for Ukraine to be given the resources needed to “go on the offensive” in 2025 and will urge congressional leaders to “change the narrative” on support for Kyiv, the Foreign Office said.
He was expected to tell Johnson to stop his colleagues from continuing to block the support amid opposition from hardliners aligned with Trump.
It’s the latest of several interventions made by Cameron over additional funding for Ukraine. Earlier this year, he warned Congress not to show “the weakness displayed against Hitler” in the 1930s.
Reminder again about Washington Post Isabelle Khurshudyan, Bureau Chief for Ukraine - Russia coverage.
A longform-in depth investigation by The Washington Post, by Isabelle Khurshudyan Dec 29, 2022 (12 days after Kissinger’s Op-ed), Christmas week, still appears and not yet removed by The WaPo.
(*if anyone facing gate / paywalled to read WAPO - The Washington Post investigation, you can read here)
European Finally Push Ukraine to Peace Talk with Russia, But Not Yet Same Enthusiasm in the White House
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I rewrite again what Isabelle Khurshudyan write in her in-depth investigation (again, until this minute, her in-depth investigation still appears, not removed immediately by editorial team of WaPo):
Maj. Gen. Andriy Kovalchuk, the initial commander of the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the Kherson region. (Ukrainian Operative Commandment South) set out to bisect the Russian-occupied area on the west side of the Dnieper and trap the Russian forces. “My task was not only to liberate the territory,” he said. “My task from the start was to occlude and destroy the force. That is, to not let them leave or exist.”
“There were moments when we turned off their supply lines completely, and they still managed to build crossings,” Kovalchuk said. “They managed to replenish ammunition. … It was very difficult.”
Kovalchuk considered flooding the river. The Ukrainians, he said, even conducted a test strike with a HIMARS launcher on one of the floodgates at the Nova Kakhovka dam, making three holes in the metal to see if the Dnieper’s water could be raised enough to stymie Russian crossings but not flood nearby villages.
The test was a success, Kovalchuk said, but the step remained a last resort. He held off.
I just show what hypocrisy if today we accuse Russia for (the destruction of) the Nova Kakhovka Dam, if 6 months ago via The Washington Post, Ukraine high-ranking military even say (for counteroffensive) “we must destroy this Dam to weaken Russia.”
Back again David Cameron - Donal Trump.
His [Cameron] previous comments drew the ire of rightwing congresswoman and staunch Trump ally Marjorie Taylor Greene, who told him to “kiss my ass” and “worry about his own country”.
Cameron will say that nothing can match the pace and scale of US support, which remains “the keystone in the arch” in the fight for democracy, the department said.
“Success for Ukraine and failure for [Vladimir] Putin are vital for American and European security,” Cameron said before his trip. “This will show that borders matter, that aggression doesn’t pay and that countries like Ukraine are free to choose their own future.
“The alternative would only encourage Putin in further attempts to redraw European borders by force, and would be heard clearly in Beijing, Tehran and North Korea.”
The UK announced another £2.5bn in aid earlier this year to help Ukraine fight the Russian invasion and the EU has pledged another £43bn.
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has said his country would lose the war unless Congress passes the military assistance package. “If Ukraine loses the war, other states will be attacked,” he said.
Talks will also focus on the Middle East, with the foreign secretary expected to set out the UK’s reasoning for continuing to export arms to Israel on Tuesday as ministers face ongoing pressure to disclose the official legal advice on the trade.
Downing Street said it had no plans to publish the legal advice but that it wanted to be transparent about its decision to continue exporting arms during the Gaza conflict.