Former Chair & now Distinguished Fellow @rusi_org. President @conseurope, UK chair #Königswinter & #AuroraForum Ex Cabinet & MP [email protected]
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David Lidington retweeted
Nikki Haley: “There are certain decisions that will go down as history-defining moments. This is one of them. It's a terrible misjudgment of Putin, who has made it clear he wants to destroy the West. We shouldn't help him do it.”
Mitt Romney: “Do we prize liberty or do we prize power and purse? No more clear test than the choice between Ukraine and Russia. Abandon Ukraine and we abandon liberty. Eventually even our own.”
Thom Tillis: “Beyond irresponsible. What part of enforcing a law passed 86-11 by the Senate does the President and his advisors not understand? It’s unconscionable that this administration is capitulating to a Russian dictator who illegally invaded Ukraine and butchers innocent civilians every single day. If the President wants to actually bring down energy prices, he can do it by solving the Iran problem, not by doing a solid for Vladimir Putin.”
Laura Loomer: “Putin’s goal is to take Ukraine. Then he will take Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, and he will make his way through all of Europe. People obsess over personalities too much. You could have an election in Ukraine tomorrow and Putin would still find a reason to be at war. Russia INVADED Ukraine. Not the other way around. Zelenskyy’s removal from office won’t stop Russian imperialism. It’s not about Zelenskyy. It’s about Putin. It’s always been about Putin.”
John Cornyn: “Helping Putin in Ukraine is reckless. He would not stop with Ukraine and our NATO allies would be next. Putin is fanatically committed to restoring Russia’s glory days, calling the collapse of the Soviet Union ‘the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century’ and claiming Russia was ‘robbed’ in the breakup. . . Congress Must Investigate Trump’s Aid and Comfort to Putin.”
David Lidington retweeted
It’s taken me a while to share this, but I was genuinely touched by @Jamie4North’s kind words.
Politics can be challenging, so recognition from someone in another party means a lot.
Thank you, Jamie, for your kindness.
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Much punchier accusations from Sir Malcolm Rifkind - a former defence and foreign secretary:
"I choose my words very carefully. I think this week Donald Trump has shown himself as a person to be repulsive; as a President of the United States to be a disgrace to his own people as well as to his international responsibilities.
"We all know his actual reasons for this are a grubby attempt to win a few more votes in the midterms by trying to get oil prices down.
"In order to achieve that, he has not only betrayed Ukraine in the middle of a war, fighting for its very existence, but he is also directly - not indirectly - directly responsible for the deaths of many Ukrainians who will not now be protected by the attempts that have been successfully made using intelligence provided indirectly by the United States."
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RT @sikorskiradek: Tell that, Mr @SecWar, to the families of Polish soldiers who died securing the tough Ghazni province.
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Apparently, it's not Iran that caused a shortage of US ammunition, but what Biden gave to Ukraine. The Pinocchio version of history
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Totally spot on by @CharlesHMoore
"On Friday, Dominic Lawson exposed the long-term consistency of Donald Trump’s hostility to Ukraine and the baseness of his motives. In his tenderness towards Putin, Trump is indeed the worst Western leader. His attempted humiliation of Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office last year remains the most disgusting public behaviour by the leader of one democracy towards another seen in my lifetime.
As a result, Russia was able to kill more people in Ukraine this week because Trump’s America withdrew the protection it had previously provided. In a weird complicity between Trump and Elon Musk, Starlink slowed its speeds so that Ukraine did not get the signals of Russian attacks in time. No new US Patriot missiles are arriving. Pablo Picasso’s famous Bombing of Guernica could be painted today, relocated to Kyiv. The leader of the free world is in league with the man who wants to unfree it: that is a truly shocking thing.
... Some sceptics will question the comparison with the 1930s. It is true that all such things are inexact. But the grievance politics, pseudo-historical ethno-nationalist justifications and the imperative of ever greater war do have strong resemblances. So do the hesitant reactions of Western leaders, often too complacent, rich, electorally insecure and, in a minority of cases, directly corrupted, to resist. Nero fiddled while Rome burnt. In modern Britain, we let people fiddle the welfare, at the cost of our defence.
The case can also be made that Putin is cleverer than Hitler, because more patient. He has been in office more than twice as long as the Führer. Until Ukraine went wrong because his aggression was so blatant, he had been accumulating his gains slowly enough to disarm vigilance, as happened when he occupied Crimea in 2014. His beliefs might be fanatical, but his understanding of how Europe, including Britain, defaults to quietism if it possibly can, is acute. So, again aided by Trump, is his skill in normalising atrocity – the deliberate bombing of civilians, medical centres and railway trains; the abduction and brainwashing of children; the torture of prisoners of war; the deaths of hundreds of thousands of soldiers. More than four years in, such things rarely make the main headlines.
Although the human cost of war in Ukraine is justification enough for Western intervention, it is not an argument which persuades states. The right argument is that if we do not stop Putin, our whole continent, including these offshore islands, will lose. At present, most Western European leaders know this in their heads, but still do not want to believe it in their hearts. As in 1939 and 1940, they are without America. Unlike at that time, no major European power seems determined, all the same, to resist."
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Max Hastings on fire. "The US has fallen into the hands of the most dishonest and venal leader in its history."
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Poland’s Foreign Minister Sikorski:
“The USA haven’t spent a single cent on Ukraine since January 2025, so more than 1.5 years. We in Europe are doing it.”
David Lidington retweeted
There are certain decisions that will go down as history-defining moments. This is one of them. It's a terrible misjudgment of Putin, who has made it clear he wants to destroy the West. We shouldn't help him do it.
Trump waives many Russian sanctions, tariffs under new law backed by Lindsey Graham foxbusiness.com/politics/tru…
David Lidington retweeted
“we will pay any price….to assure the success and survival of liberty.” Is this still true? Do we prize liberty or do we prize power and purse? No more clear test than the choice between Ukraine and Russia. Abandon Ukraine and we abandon liberty. Eventually even our own.
David Lidington retweeted
Russia has never stopped attacking Ukrainian energy and power plants, despite Trump's "ceasefire"
Yesterday, the Russians carried out one of their largest attacks on Ukraine’s energy sector – more than 15 critical power generation and transmission facilities were targeted across different regions of Ukraine. Restoration work is ongoing, with all necessary services and all available resources of Ukrainian energy companies involved. I thank everyone working practically nonstop to restore power.
The most difficult situation was in Lutsk, Rivne, Zhytomyr, Vinnytsia, Shepetivka, Slavuta, and Netishyn. Energy facilities in the Kharkiv, Kyiv, Dnipro, and other regions were also hit. The Russians have scaled up their anti-energy operation and are trying to stretch our reserves and repair capabilities as thin as possible. Between 7 p.m. yesterday and 7 a.m. today alone, more than 320 jet-powered and gasoline-powered “shaheds,” along with loitering munitions, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles, were used against our energy sector, our cities, and our communities. And although our warriors are shooting down a significant number of them, the sheer scale and unrelenting pace of Russia’s strikes, specifically against our energy sector, are unfortunately having severe consequences.
It is important that our European partners have already prepared new support packages for Ukraine. I am grateful to them for this. And it is important that everyone in America also sees what is really happening. At a time when the Russians have carried out such a massive attack on our energy sector, a decision was unfortunately made in America to completely disregard the Lindsey Graham Act, which was supposed to impose truly effective pressure on Russia to bring this war to an end. This Act could have helped enormously – and still can! But it needs to actually work, and every voice in support of it matters.
Russia is trying to cause a blackout in Ukraine – right before winter. Russia is trying to leave millions of our people without electricity and heating. Pressure is needed to stop this. A U.S. sanctions blackout, easing pressure on the aggressor, financial rewards for Putin – all of this only encourages him to keep attacking. We must not give up ground. We must keep trying to end the war. To end it, not give Putin every reason to continue it indefinitely. I thank everyone who is truly fighting for peace and helping Ukraine!
David Lidington retweeted
Beyond irresponsible. What part of enforcing a law passed 86-11 by the Senate does the President and his advisors not understand? It’s unconscionable that this administration is capitulating to a Russian dictator who illegally invaded Ukraine and butchers innocent civilians every single day. If the President wants to actually bring down energy prices, he can do it by solving the Iran problem, not by doing a solid for Vladimir Putin.
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David Lidington retweeted
Everyone needs to watch this clip of Zelenskyy. Europe needs to step up. The bigger risk now is not Trump - that's a distraction. It's the creeping fatigue in European support for Ukraine, despite the warm words and diplomatic handshakes
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Putin doesn’t want peace. Putin wants Ukraine. Enough is enough.
President Trump should rescind the diesel deal with Russia and use the Lindsey Graham Sanctioning Russia Act to impose harsh sanctions on nations purchasing Russian energy, work with our allies to ensure Ukraine has the military support it needs to repel and defeat this Russian invasion once and for all. Slava Ukraini🇺🇸🇺🇦
David Lidington retweeted
Sikorski: There are rumors that some people expect frozen Russian assets to be released back to Russia.
I don't think I'm speaking just for myself in saying: “Over our dead bodies.” 1/
David Lidington retweeted
I’m in Edinburgh and being asked a lot of questions about ITV’s Reform expose.
The reported comments show yet again why we’re not doing deals with Reform. We want Reform voters back, not Reform politicians.
Reform voters are being let down by the people who claim to represent them. Many of these people were the ones who let them down in the Conservative Party. We are now under new management.
These people caused a lot of problems and is why I say Nigel Farage has been doing my spring cleaning.
These problems will keep coming for Reform. Just as Farage is being investigated, so is Robert Jenrick, and so is Richard Tice. These problems will never end because of the kind of people they are - they don’t care about high standards of conduct.
That is why I am showing those voters who want to defeat Labour but left the Conservative Party that it’s time to come home. We are under new management, and you deserve better than this.
David Lidington retweeted
Le Royaume Uni n'a jamais changé de position : que le Premier ministre soit travailliste ou conservateur, ce pays a toujours fermement soutenu l'Ukraine.
C'est le même pays qui a sauvé l'Europe en 1940.
Rule Britannia. 🙂
David Lidington retweeted
Imagine seeing this daily horror and saying that the one who "needs to go" is the leader of the victim country and not the aggressor country. What moral idiocy. What cowardice.
