“The age of engagement with Russia is over,” UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss declared during a Wednesday night speech at a dinner in Brussels, wherein she urged her counterparts in the US-led military alliance to adopt “a new approach to security in Europe based on resilience, defense and deterrence.”
She went on to assert that Russia’s military offensive in Ukraine had rendered the NATO-Russia Founding Act of 1997 to be “dead,” telling envoys of the US-led military alliance to spurn “false comfort” and prepare for more friction with Moscow.
Her speech followed the imposition of yet more UK sanctions on Russia, leveled amid a widespread outcry over alleged atrocities against civilians in the town of Bucha, near Kiev. Ukraine and the Western media, together with intelligence agencies, have blamed Russian forces, but Moscow denies any involvement and says Ukraine is manipulating evidence to provoke greater intervention from the West.
READ MORE: Russia accuses US of ‘flooding’ Ukraine with weapons
Thursday’s expulsion of Russia from the UN Human Rights Council and Washington’s authorization of the Lend-Lease Act, a law removing procedural hurdles to the US arming Ukraine to an unprecedented degree, relied heavily on references to the events in Bucha.
© 2022, paradox. All rights reserved.
The German ambassador to the Palestinian Authority has been hounded by an angry mob and…
The Biden administration is considering a ban on enriched uranium from Russia using the president’s…
State troopers used pepper spray and stun grenades as they arrested dozens of pro-Palestine protesters…
The number and frequency of Ukrainian soldiers receiving training in US bases in Western Europe has dropped…
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has insisted that member states don’t want their citizens…
Resistance to the continued military draft in Ukraine has taken some extreme forms, a soldier…