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Originally Posted by Bluegrassplayer
Yeah I'm sure about the bold.
A lot of the west disagrees with the policy, but so far that is the policy. They tried to retract this statement but were not able to.
Hopefully the policy changes, but so far it has not.
David Cameron didn't quite say what has been claimed, but obviously the UK (and French) Storm Shadow air-launched cruise missile is long-range, and has already been used against targets in Russian-occupied Crimea including the Russian Black Sea Fleet. Russian threats to retaliate against British military bases in Ukraine are a bit odd, as we don't have any. The Russians have previously, and weirdly, threatened to detonate some imaginary nuclear weapon in the English Channel that would supposedly flood the whole of Great Britain. All dictators, like Putin, tend to exhibit the mentality of a toddler, throwing idiotic tantrums when defied.
President Macron has actually suggested putting NATO boots on the ground in Ukraine, which is rather more radical than anything Cameron said, but the Russians have a weird fixation on GB and aren't particularly bothered about France.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c163kp93l6po