By taking positive steps forward, even small ones, we can gather the will & the momentum to tackle the challenge we face - or we face being tackled by it.
& we can start to do that by
doing what we can,
with what we have,
where we are.
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& we can start to do that by
doing what we can,
with what we have,
where we are.
🧵
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1. Seizing Russian assets
2. Long-range & massed strike
3. Arming & air-defending Ukraine
4. Defence Industrial Strategy
5. Mutual Defence Pacts w 🇺🇦
Europe needs to have a Marshall Plan for the space vacated by the Russian Empire
Exactly the right proposals
Time to act and decisive now.
We will be alone with Putin, and he will punish any softness and weakness.
It would make a very strong statement about European resolve & intent if those countries (esp UK & France) with billions of Pounds & Euros of frozen Russian assets in our jurisdiction seized them & transferred them to Ukraine.
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Especially if Ukraine used that money to invest massively in buying & producing long-range strike weapons, particularly new mass precision strike weapons with low unit cost to gain the number needed to have strategic effect
in ptrnrship w. those European countries.
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- To deter is to threaten
& Ukraine needs to be able to threaten Russia by holding key government, industry & war fighting targets at risk.
Massed precision strike would do this.
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In the meantime Europeans should transfer more of their own strike weapons to Ukraine, free of targeting restrictions.
- eg 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇸🇪🇪🇪 should deploy what troops they can in non-combat roles in western Ukraine.
& provide air defence for them & surrounding areas
Listen again …
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_tC_5ryXY7U