Cameron to US: Don’t let Putin become a new Hitler
DAVID Cameron has raised the spectre of Britain’s appeasement of Hitler as he urged American lawmakers to approve billions more dollars in funding to Ukraine.
The Foreign Secretary admitted he was dropping ‘diplomatic niceties’ as he warned that history showed the ‘folly of giving in to tyrants’ and the necessity to rein in Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
Lord Cameron, on the Washington DC website The Hill, wrote: ‘I do not want us to show the weakness displayed against Hitler in the 1930s. He came back for more, costing us far more lives to stop his aggression.
‘I do not want us to show the weakness displayed against Putin in 2008, when he invaded Georgia, or
‘Folly of giving in to tyrants’
the uncertainty of the response in 2014, when he took Crimea and much of the Donbas – before coming back to cost us far more with his aggression in 2022.’
His remarks did not go down well Stateside with some people.
Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene dismissed the comments, saying: ‘That’s rude name- calling. Cameron needs to worry about his own country – and frankly he can kiss my a**.’
Lord Cameron had set out what he saw as a stark, saying: ‘On the one side is Putin, hoping to enlarge his empire simply by outlasting the West. He believes we are weak.
‘On the other side are all of us. We have the resources, the economic might, the expertise. Our economic
strength outweighs Russia’s by a factor of around 25 to one. All we need to do is make our strength pay. The question is: Do we have the will?’
His plea came after the US Senate, the upper house of Congress, approved the £75billion national security bill that included another £48billion of military aid for Ukraine.
US President Joe Biden warned that Ukrainian soldiers are running out of artillery shells. He added that passing the law would send a message that ‘America can be trusted’.
But the bill must still get through the lower chamber, the Republicancontrolled House of Representatives, where it faces opposition.