British Labour defence minister visits Ukraine to support escalation of war
Within 24 hours of taking office, British Defence Secretary John Healey made sure his first foreign visit was to Ukraine, to convince the Zelensky regime that the new Labour government supported a war against Russia.
Healey was accompanied by the British Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Admiral Sir Tony Radakin. Healey and Radakin travelled to Ukraine before Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, Healey and Foreign Secretary David Lammy flew to Washington on Tuesday to attend a three-day NATO summit to prepare for a war escalation.
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The Ministry of Defence issued a statement on Sunday, coinciding with Healey’s trip, about a “new aid package for the country, which includes more artillery guns, a quarter of a million rounds of ammunition and almost 100 Brimstone precision missiles”. Also included are “50 small military boats to support river and coastal operations”, “61 bulldozers to build defensive positions” and “support for previously gifted AS-90s, including 32 new barrels and key spare parts that will help Ukraine fire an additional 60,000 155mm shells”.
The statement outlines how a government of conservative warmongers was seamlessly replaced. Healey has “instructed officials to ensure that the military aid package promised in April is expedited and delivered in full to Ukraine within the next 100 days.”
The support agreed by Rishi Sunak’s government in April is the “largest military aid package for Ukraine ever. It includes 400 vehicles, 1,600 attack and air defence missiles, including additional Storm Shadow long-range precision guided missiles, four million rounds of ammunition and 60 boats, including offshore capture boats.”
The Ministry of Defence said: “Since the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, the UK has provided more than £7.6 billion in military support. It will continue to work with allies and partners to provide Ukraine with the equipment and weapons it needs to win the war.”
After hundreds of thousands of people died in Ukraine, NATO is planning how to make amends for the catastrophic military setbacks that have shaken Zelensky’s government.
Even while Healey was meeting with Defense Minister Rustem Umerov, they had to flee to the basement and “seek shelter in a bomb shelter” … “a Soviet-era building that served as Mr. Umerov’s temporary headquarters” because Russian missiles were hitting nearby.
Labour was able to gain power with the support of a ruling elite that sees itself as the “party of NATO” and fully supports the war against Russia and Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians.
Starmer won the support of the Financial TimesThis is the first time the newspaper has supported the Labour Party in a general election in 19 years. In 2005, it supported Tony Blair after he supported the US-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Starmer was also supported by the Murdoch dynasty The sun And The timesThey both call for an intensified war against Russia and austerity measures to finance the drastically increased military budget.
The trip to Kiev was coordinated with the Sun who accompanied Healey on board a Royal Air Force-chartered flight immediately after leaving Starmer’s first Cabinet meeting on Saturday, during which he gave an exclusive interview to the newspaper’s political editor, Harry Cole.
This was published under the headline “FIGHTING TALKS: Britain will stand by Ukraine ‘for as long as it takes’, new defence secretary says in direct warning to Putin.”
It said: “He (Healey) stressed that the new government was ‘fully committed’ to raising British defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP, but ‘Britain’s defence begins in Ukraine’.” Healey boasted: “Less than 24 hours after my appointment I am on my way to Ukraine” because it was time to “deepen” Britain’s “special leadership role” towards Kyiv.
Healey told the newspaper: “We will supply … an extra quarter of a million heavy ammunition for the machine guns they use to shoot down Iranian drones.” The “extra 90 Brimstone missiles” are “the most lethal device they use to take out Russian tanks and armored vehicles.” The 50 boats have been “provided to the Ukrainian Navy. These are the marines we have trained. So they will use them for attacks in the Black Sea, they will use them for raids across the Dnipro River.”
The newspaper shown The Sun‘s Cole meets Zelensky and is in the room while Healey discusses with the Ukrainian defense minister. The sun This was followed by an editorial which said: “From the first day of the Russian invasion, our last Tory government stood firmly behind President Zelensky and the Ukrainian people. It is very pleasing that the new Defence Secretary, John Healey, in one of the Labour Party’s first acts in office, travelled to Odessa to pledge that Britain’s position would remain unwavering.”
The sun welcomed “the new foreign minister’s commitment to spend 2.5 percent of GDP on defense, even if details are sparse.”
The Just Then came the demand for more. An article on Tuesday with the headline “Starmer under pressure to increase defence spending” reported that former army chief General Sir Patrick Sanders had “warned that the British armed forces are so exhausted they could only fight a small war for a month at most…”
“Sanders said even 2.5 percent of GDP was too little and called for an increase in spending to ‘closer to 3 percent.'”
The general complained that defence spending and security were “conspicuously absent” from the election campaign. “Currently, the political debate in Britain is trying to shield the public from the reality of the world we are in.”
Sanders warned: “There is the potential for a conflict that, while not going to look like World War II, could spread like a cancer, be global, and be fought with varying degrees of intensity across all operational areas.”
The kind of war Sanders is planning became clear when he relativized the worst crimes of the Nazis in the 20th century. He referred to Russia, China and Iran as “the new Axis powers,” with the Just Sanders added that they posed an even deadlier challenge than the Nazi alliance in 1939 because they were “more interdependent and more aligned than the original Axis powers.”
This message was underlined by Lord West, a pro-Labour peer, former First Sea Lord and former chairman of the National Security Forum. He complained to the Just on the Labour Party’s position: “I think we should say when we reach 2.5 percent. ‘When the situation allows’ is not really good enough – Putin will not wait until our situation is good enough before he attacks.”
Looking ahead to the US elections in November, West said that if Labour set a date for reaching the 2.5 percent mark, “that would be a very good signal to the American people, not least to Donald Trump.”
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