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Grant Shapps to send UK troops to Ukraine
(www.telegraph.co.uk)
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Even though this is an extension of the training it does make me uneasy.
Even the USA has shied away from having official troops or support personnel on the ground
It abject stupidity. There is no benefit for them being in Ukraine. They can train them in the UK. This is putting a target on the backs of servicemen in a points scoring exercise. It just shows how little these scum think regarding the well being of people who serve the UK.
Yeah, NATO countries are right on the border, training in Poland would work fine.
If the US (and other NATO allies but especially the US) disagree with this I'm imagining they wouldn't have let it happen. The US isn't shy of calling out the UK they've done that plenty of times in this Biden administration. If the UK (or any othe NATO ally) are now operating closer or inside Ukraine the US would have to have signed off on this and are comfortable with it.
If not we'll see a pretty rapid retraction of these plans and a public admonishment from Biden.