The UK prime minister, Rishi Sunak, is visiting Ukraine on Friday to meet his counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, as the UK announced it would provide further military aid to the country over the coming year.
The UK has been one of Kyiv’s staunchest supporters since Russia’s invasion and Sunak said Britain would boost its support in the next financial year to £2.5bn, an increase of £200m on the previous two years.
Meanwhile Republicans holding aid hostage for petty domestic points.
Election year over here. Sunak wants to look like a dynamic world leader, rather than a lily-livered frightened little rich boy.
It’s election year here too. It’s just that one of our parties has decided any coppers with the other or compromise on literally anything or even just governing at all means the president gets re-elected and that they’d rather burn the world down than allow that to happen. Also they’re pro Putin
Yikes.
This is a parliamentary democracy Vs your style democracy thing. To become prime minister you have to have a majority of representatives be elected to your party. If the house was blocking him and voting down things he’d basically be forced to call an election right away.
And Democrats are damned if they do and damned if they don’t because they know Europe will step up to the plate if America stops funding Ukraine out of sheer desperation. And Republicans want to harm our relations with the EU, so they’re all for that.