Dan Hannan MEP on the rights and wrongs of Ukraine
Dan Hannan MEP has put out another "Ici Londres" Youtube video making the argument on why we should support self-determination for the people of the Ukraine.
A surprising number of people in the West are all too ready to put all the blame on NATO and/or the EU for the problems in Ukraine. In one of today's papers there is a reference to the West "poking the Russian Bear" as if it was us sending B52 or Vulcan bombers to probe Russian airspace, rather than Putin sending Bear bombers over Cornwall and risking the safety of civilian aircraft. Or as if it had been a Russian airliner, rather than a Malaysian one with largely Westerners on board, shot down with the loss of three hundred innocent civilians including eighty children.
I did for about two seconds consider giving this post the title "Hell has officially frozen over yet again" because a person who was thinking about this in a lazy way, or trying to twist it, might suggest that Dan was defending the EU, which would have been most unusual.
I didn't use that title because if you watch and listen to the video below carefully, Dan isn't defending the EU. He's defending the right of the people of the Ukraine to settle their own destiny and applying exactly the same criteria that he often uses to criticise Brussels and the EU in an objective manner to Moscow and what the Russians regard as their empire.
Watch it and see what you think.
A surprising number of people in the West are all too ready to put all the blame on NATO and/or the EU for the problems in Ukraine. In one of today's papers there is a reference to the West "poking the Russian Bear" as if it was us sending B52 or Vulcan bombers to probe Russian airspace, rather than Putin sending Bear bombers over Cornwall and risking the safety of civilian aircraft. Or as if it had been a Russian airliner, rather than a Malaysian one with largely Westerners on board, shot down with the loss of three hundred innocent civilians including eighty children.
I did for about two seconds consider giving this post the title "Hell has officially frozen over yet again" because a person who was thinking about this in a lazy way, or trying to twist it, might suggest that Dan was defending the EU, which would have been most unusual.
I didn't use that title because if you watch and listen to the video below carefully, Dan isn't defending the EU. He's defending the right of the people of the Ukraine to settle their own destiny and applying exactly the same criteria that he often uses to criticise Brussels and the EU in an objective manner to Moscow and what the Russians regard as their empire.
Watch it and see what you think.
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