British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will replace Boris Johnson as the British prime minister after the UK’s Conservative Party voted to make her the leader of the government. She beat out former Finance Minister Rishi Sunak and is expected to be formally named prime minister by the Queen on Tuesday.
As the British foreign secretary, Truss has delivered some of the most hawkish rhetoric against Russia in NATO’s response to the invasion of Ukraine. When the war first broke out, Truss said that she supported individuals from the UK who wanted to fight in Ukraine.
While campaigning to become the prime minister, Truss said if she took the position, she would follow in Johnson’s footsteps and be Ukraine’s “greatest friend” to ensure that Russian President Vladimir Putin “fails in Ukraine and suffers a strategic defeat.”
According to a report from The Financial Times, Truss and her team have been frustrated that the US hasn’t taken a “harder line” on Russia even as Washington has pledged over $13 billion in weapons for Ukraine, dwarfing the $2.8 billion in military aid London has committed.
While the UK isn’t contributing nearly as much money as the US, Britain is one of the leading NATO supporters of Ukraine. The British are currently training thousands of Ukrainian soldiers inside the UK, with the goal of training 10,000 within 120 days. According to reports from The Times and The New York Times, British special operations forces are on the ground in Ukraine.
Truss has also voiced her opposition to negotiations with Russia, saying talks could only happen after Moscow is “defeated.” Johnson frequently discouraged negotiations and reportedly played an integral role in the failure of earlier peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, a pattern that will likely continue under a Truss premiership.
Truss has also been hawkish in her rhetoric against China and has called for a “global NATO” that’s capable of defending Taiwan and the broader Asia Pacific region. She is expected to be confrontational with Beijing and will reportedly classify China as a “threat” to British national security for the first time.
During a recent town hall, Truss was asked by host John Pienaar how she would “feel” if she had to order a nuclear strike, which Pienaar recognized would likely mean global annihilation. Truss said, “I think it’s an important duty of the prime minister and I’m ready to do that.”
When asked again how ordering a nuclear strike would make her feel, Truss simply responded, “I’m ready to do that.”
Oh boy, Boris without a penis.
😆
And yet somehow even more of a dick.
Har! 😁
Her reputation is that she’ll say or do anything to please her sponsors and further her career. That’s how she’s reached the top. Like Johnson, absolutely no inflexible beliefs and no principles not up for sale.
Colonialism is thriving and very dangerously so in Britain. (Also in US.) Shocking that a white actually very privileged woman is advocating war to further her own career. Not one whit of compassion for those who are dying now and who will apparently continue to die for her pathetic personal aspirations for — oh, maybe 20 years?
And actually this is a kind of instance of a very bad sort of regime change. A bad head of state being turned out for — an even worse one.
It serms that Western countries are facing a car crash if an economy, and no intelligent person wants to step out into politics. Only pathetic, ruthless and unintellugent are wanted to take the blame at the end.
Look at Europe as a whole. The parade of arrogant — the species promoted each other into high positions, a negative selection, a joke in the end.
Right Bianca.
I’ve always maintained that politicians are people ( I use that term loosely) who can’t get real jobs.
Tough talk from a nation that has 112,000 soldiers, including their reserve forces. At most twenty percent of them are actual combat troops. Is there any wonder they immediately jump to the question about nukes?
I suppose she could join with Washington for an attack like they did in Iraq but boots on the ground withing 200 miles of the Russian border is a very different kind of fight.Russia has already killed more Ukrainian soldiers than the UK has for a standing army.
I lover her as the pm of uk. If it was us I would be afraid as this power-hungry person without substance could do great damage to the world as a leader of a superpower but uk is a joke and her leadership will only weaken Britain.
Still, she can make a whole bunch of lives either miserable or gone.
True but they can’t do anything without the say so of us. Their latest power projection is an aircraft carrier without aircraft and it went back to dock right after it was launched because of technical difficulties.
Just. Plain. Great. Sounds like Liz is actively pushing for Amerikkkan forces in Ukrainazia, since it appears to her that the US isn’t “doing enough”.
What I find extremely disheartening is the presumption that in order to be a woman in a position of great power, she needs to be a psycho bitch. There may be some nation somewhere with a female leader who is rational and empathetic, but if so, I’m not aware of her/them.
Golda Meir, Margaret Thatcher, Hillary Clinton; now this one. They give women a very bad name. The defining trait of a woman, IMO, should be kindness.
Do not forget Madeleine Albreight, Madam “it was worth it” killing Iraqi childrenn.
And Vickie Nuland…
And ursala von der lying, and Baerbock (“my voters don’t matter).
And Theresa Mayfly.
Nz pm is a great example of a caring leader
Good to know AZ 😉
I like Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand. She strongly condemned the Australian Terrorist that shot Muslims in New Zealand.
But actually I think gender has little to do with it. Looked at objectively she’s just another sack-o-shit bourgeois politician with a nose for the truffles.
Let’s just face it, democracy + nuclear weapons = we’re fckd.
Hi Ted
We’re f*cked any way you look at it. If climate change doesn’t get us, nuclear annihilation will.
Live it up while you still can!
I can just move north and inland for climate change.
Ted, I live in Michigan, famous for its lack of reliable sunshine, and we’re in a drought.
The Great Lakes are right there, and presumably rising. I suppose nuclear winter will stop global warming but it will be cold comfort. So to speak.
Well yes, we’re surrounded by fresh water and will never run out. It’s the lack of rainfall that’s hurting farmers; no one irrigates here.
My orchard suffered greatly this summer, not even enough apples to bother making cider. And I’m so tired of hand-watering the vegetable gardens I could throw myself off a cliff 😭
Last year was the complete opposite. We received so many rainfalls of four-plus inches overnight that the pond was constantly blowing out its banks and becoming part of our front yard. This year it’s three to four feet low and deer are braving the horse fencing to drink from it.
Can I just say two words here? Drip irrigation.
Good if you’ve just got a small area to irrigate, Ted. But it would have to be very, very extensive here and not worth the expense.
In this case, it’s not so much the “hawk” to worry about as it’s the idiot … she is just plain too dumb for this role. Nothing better illustrates Britain’s complete irrelevance than this selection.
And they still worship Churchill, a drunken racist!
Liz has the same problem Boris had. The cost of food and energy has risen so high that if nothing is done, there will be a political upheaval. It should be interesting to see how she deals with that now that she no longer reports to BoJo.
“Ultra-Hawk Liz Truss to Be Next British Prime Minister”
Ugly frog face Truss will be the last English PM. The witch will likely be in London when it becomes a smoking hole.
Of course Brits don’t let a person with Indian background to become a PM…!
That means if I had experience in British Politics, I would not become PM. They would say I’m another Jeremy Corbyn since I agree with him on foreign policy.
Sounds like our owners are replacing anyone that doesn’t want to go to war in World War III. I won’t fight for you, and I’ll work against you.
Farewell britain! RIP! It’s over.
“liz” promises to be even worse the clown boris, if that were possible.
Each one is worse than the predecessor.
Ah, context. All the NY times newsletter had to say about her was ‘conservative’, and I think ‘hawk’. It would be biased to report the facts like antiwar.com has I guess. Let’s just stay in the dark America, the truth about our friends is not flattering.
Our friends can do no wrong and our “enemies” can do nothing good. Such is the black and white world we live in.
Just add Ron DeSantis and voila! Instant Ozymandias.
Every western leader now makes Vladimir Putin l.that, as western nations, lose power and influence, they will act more and more desperately. That’s the only explanation I have for the current insanity.
Liz Truss vs Graham Phillips and the Donbass Truth! The persecution of Graham Phillips by the UK government with its illegal sanctions is a disgrace.
Graham’s “crime” is that he dared to disagree with the official narrative, as Julian Assange did. He dared to call the Kiev Junta “Nazis”. He is on the ground in Donbass reporting and showing the crimes of the Western powers.
In total, 290 airplanes and 152 helicopters, 1,889 unmanned aerial vehicles, 373 air defence missile systems, 4,845 tanks and other armoured combat vehicles, 825 combat vehicles equipped with MRLS, 3,369 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 5,343 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.
Recent attacks include; Fighter aviation of Russian Aerospace Forces and air defence means have shot down 3 Su-25 airplanes of Ukrainian Air Force. 1 Su-25 has been shot down near Snigiryovka and 2 Su-25 have been shot down near Mirnoye (Nikolayev region).
A total of 12 tanks, 11 infantry combat vehicles and 8 other armoured vehicles, 6 pick-ups with large-calibre machine guns and over 210 servicemen at Nikolayev-Krivoy Rog direction were neutralised.
High-precision air-based armament has neutralised the provisional bases of the units from 54th and 93rd mechanised brigades of the AFU near Artyomovsk (Donetsk People’s Republic). Up to 250 servicemen and over 10 motor and armoured vehicles have been eliminated.
High-precision attacks of Russian Aerospace Forces launched at the provisional bases of 1st Battalion from 65th Mechanised Brigade of the AFU have resulted in the elimination of up to 100 servicemen and 15 units of military equipment near Veselyanka (Zaporozhye region).
1 launching ramp of Buk-M1 Ukrainian air defence system has been destroyed near Grigorovka (Donetsk People’s Republic).
Air defence means have shot down 12 unmanned aerial vehicles near Yakovenkovo, Kapitolovka, Liptsy (Kharkov region), Kirillovka, Sladkoye, Valeryanovka, Novoandreyevka (Donetsk People’s Republic), Skadovsk (Kherson region) and Kherson.
1 Tochka-U ballistic missile has been intercepted near Popasnaya (Lugansk People’s Republic) and 11 projectiles launched by U.S.-manufactured HIMARS multiple rocket-launching system have been intercepted near Kakhovka hydroelectric power plant.
3 AFU command posts, including one of 14th Mechanised Brigade near Kamennaya Yaruga (Kharkov region), a command and observation post of a battalion from 102nd Territorial Defence Brigade near Poltavka (Zaporozhye region), as well as 52 artillery units and 161 AFU manpower and military equipment concentration areas.