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Dr Liam Fox MP - The Times - 'Ukraine spent seven years begging three PMs for weapons — and no one listened'

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Monday, 25 April, 2022

Writing in The Times on Monday 25th April 2022, The Rt Hon Dr Liam Fox MP said:

From the early days the refusal to sell arms to Kyiv was a controversial position that was criticised by MPs from both sides of the Commons and likened to the policy of appeasement against Nazi Germany in the 1930s. In a debate in February 2015 about assisting Kyiv’s armed struggle, the Conservative former defence secretary Liam Fox was one of a number of politicians to challenge the government’s decision not to sell Kyiv anti-tank weapons.

“The Ukrainians need the ability to defend their homeland against a much more powerful aggressor,” Fox said. He asked the house whether the failure to “give defensive equipment to a country under threat because it might provoke a further reaction from Russia” was “simply a bully’s charter that is already discredited by history?”

By the time of that debate, Fox recalls, it was already “very clear what [Putin’s] pattern of behaviour was and it was very clear that Ukraine would be next”. He added: “There was no logic whatsoever in saying, ‘Well, we can’t give the Ukrainians the ability to defend themselves in case of provoking Putin’ . . . it was a policy that was based on hope, not experience.”

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ukraine-spent-seven-years-begging-three-pms-for-weapons-and-no-one-listened-58t5m9kkq

 

The Rt Hon Dr Liam Fox MP is former Defence and International Trade Secretary. He was the UK’s Nominee to be Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2020.

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