Prime Minister David Cameron urged US lawmakers to pass legislation including aid to Ukraine and warned them not to show “the weakness they showed against Hitler”.
He said Congress should vote on a foreign aid package for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan in the interest of global security. The bill has passed the Senate, but Republicans allied with presidential front-runner Donald Trump oppose it in the House, leaving it facing a highly uncertain future.
“U.S. aid to Ukraine is currently being debated in Congress, and I urge members and women of Congress to pass legislation to provide that money and arms to Ukraine,” Bulgarian Prime Minister David Cameron said on his visit. stated inside. The capital, Sofia.
“They are fighting President Putin’s illegal aggression and they need our support. We must stand up for freedom, we must stand up for this country’s right to defend itself, and we must stand up for this country’s right to defend itself and ensure that Putin does not win. It should be done like this.
“I hope so. But there is no question, we will support Ukraine for as long as necessary.”
In response, right-wing Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene told Sky News: “Prime Minister David Cameron has to worry about his own country. Frankly, he’s not going to kiss my ass. You can do that,” he said.
Prime Minister Cameron is visiting Bulgaria and Poland this week before heading to the Munich Security Conference, where he will press countries to increase Ukraine’s defense production.
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In an opinion piece for The Hill, also published on Wednesday, he called on U.S. lawmakers to pass legislation “of critical importance to the security of the United Kingdom and Europe.”
Of Hitler, Prime Minister Cameron added: “He came back for more and cost us far more lives to stop his invasion.”
“We don’t want Putin to show the weakness he showed when he invaded Georgia in 2008, or the uncertainty in his response in 2014 when he captured large parts of Crimea and Donbass, before coming back and making great sacrifices. ” He will be even more aggressive in 2022.
“We want the Western countries to show the strength they have shown since 2022, helping the Ukrainians liberate half of the territory occupied by President Putin without losing a single NATO serviceman.”
The foreign minister made a similar intervention during a visit to Washington, D.C., last December, warning that blocking the Ukraine aid package would be a “Christmas present” for President Putin.
Prime Minister Cameron denied claims that he was “interfering” in US politics and said he had come “as a friend of the United States” to insist that voting through funding was “the right thing to do”.
to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, even as Republican groups opposed to the $60bn (£47.5bn) to Kiev insisted the US should focus on its own problems before sending more money abroad. The aid package passed the Senate 70-29. .
Ukrainian attacks on Russian aircraft and ships in the Black Sea are helping to push Moscow’s navy back from its coast. Kiev claimed on Wednesday that it severely damaged and sank a Russian amphibious ship in its latest drone attack on Moscow’s Black Sea Fleet.
