This morning Ukrainian President @ZelenskyyUa updated us on Russia’s attacks on Ukraine.
We admire his leadership and the Ukrainian people’s resilience.
The G7 has shown remarkable unity.
We agreed that we will stand with 🇺🇦 for as long as it takes. pic.twitter.com/vfFBfXAuZJ
— Ursula von der Leyen (@vonderleyen) June 27, 2022
Judging by all of your faces, that’s a highly enjoyable war
— Radiateur LeChat (@LeChattyChat) June 27, 2022
They are committing generations of Americans, Germans, and British to work like slaves for all eternity, barely able to eat or warm their homes, in service of the Ukrainian form of democracy.
The Ukrainian form of democracy is more brutal than even the American or German forms of Democracy. Ukrainian Democracy is like death.
The Group of Seven club of wealthy nations on Monday vowed to stand with Ukraine “for as long as it takes”, promising to tighten the squeeze on Russia’s finances with new sanctions that include a proposal to cap the price of Russian oil.
The announcement came after Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, addressing G7 leaders at their summit in the Bavarian Alps via a video link, asked for weapons and air defences to gain the upper hand in the war against Russia within months.
The G7 statement aimed to signal that its members were ready to back Ukraine for the long haul, at a time when soaring inflation and energy shortages – fuelled by Russia’s invasion – have tested the West’s sanctions resolve.
“We will continue to provide financial, humanitarian, military and diplomatic support and stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes,” the statement said.
After missiles rained down on Kyiv on Sunday, U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said the United States was readying a new weapons package for Ukraine that included long-range air defences and ammunition.
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The G7 countries said they had also pledged or were ready to grant up to $29.5 billion for Ukraine.
Who is making these decisions?
There is no democracy process here.
Western nations on Monday pledged unwavering support for Ukraine in the war with Russia, including more sanctions on Moscow and air-defence systems, as Russian forces closed in on the last big city still held by Ukrainian troops in eastern Luhansk province.
Leaders of the Group of Seven major democracies, meeting at a summit at an alpine resort in Germany, said they would keep sanctions on Moscow for as long as necessary and would intensify international economic and political pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government and its ally Belarus.
“Imagine if we allowed Putin to get away with the violent acquisition of huge chunks of another country, sovereign, independent territory,” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the BBC when asked about the possibility the war might drag on for years.
“The lessons for that would be absolutely chilling. The point I would make to people is I think that sometimes the price of freedom is worth paying.”
The United States said it was finalising a weapons package for Ukraine that would include long-range air-defence systems – arms that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy specifically requested when he addressed the leaders by video link from Kyiv on Monday.
Is Ursula now effectively a kind of Palpatine emperor?