02/02/2022
⚡ by Maria Zakharova:
💬 The other day, British Foreign Secretary Elizabeth Truss, who made the notorious statement about the invasions of Ukraine by the Mongols and the Tatars, shifted her focus to “Russian aggression.” She said the following in a BBC interview:
“We think it’s highly likely that he [President Putin] is looking to invade Ukraine, that is why we’re doing all we can through deterrence and diplomacy to urge him to desist. That’s why we are strengthening our sanctions regime here in the United Kingdom. We’re going to be introducing new legislation so that we can hit targets, including those who are key to the Kremlin’s continuation and the continuation of the Russian regime. We’re also supplying and offering extra support into our Baltic allies across the Black Sea, as well as supplying the Ukrainians with defensive weapons.”
Ms Truss, your knowledge of geography is even worse than your knowledge of history.
I would like to point out that a better way to deliver extra support to the Baltic allies would be across the Baltic Sea. These states are known as Baltic because they are located on the Baltic, not the Black, Sea.
In addition to the above mentioned three Baltic states, NATO’s other allies on the Baltic Sea (just in case Ms Truss doesn’t know: Britain is a NATO member state and Baltic means more than just a beer brand) are Poland, Germany and Denmark.
I’m afraid to even imagine the UK Foreign Secretary changing a tank for an aircraft carrier to save the Baltic allies on the Black Sea. Will she be moving covertly across the Celtic Sea into the Mediterranean and on via the Bosporus and the Kerch Strait, trying to avoid Russia’s attention as she enters the Volga-Baltic Waterway? This will take her to the Baltic Sea – end of the line. But first she will have to stop the Kiev allies from saying that there is no Crimean bridge, because the Russians are bluffing and building it is impossible. The Crimean Bridge does exist, and I would recommend Ms Truss, recalling her tank ride in the Baltics, bend down while on the captain’s bridge of a warship moving under it. It is not a draw bridge, and she may be hurt otherwise.
Another option for British diplomats is to reach the Baltic Sea from the Black Sea via the Arctic Ocean.
A question is forming on the sand of the Black Baltic Sea. Where did Ms Truss study, and how well did she act in her previous ministerial positions with her “highly likely” education?
What we really need to do is save the world from the incompetent and poorly educated Anglo-Saxon politicians. Something must be done about the Foreign Office’s geographic ineptitude, and not because the faux pas has been made by the Foreign Secretary. It is none of our business how ministerial portfolios are distributed in developed democratic monarchies. The point is that Britain has been and remains a great maritime power.
The quotation cited from the transcript (https://downloads.bbci.co.uk/andrewmarrshow/30012201.pdf) posted on the BBC site:
Question: The Foreign Secretary Liz Truss is travelling this week to Ukraine. Before that she is joining me here this morning. Good morning. Thank you for coming on to talk to us. Are you working on the assumption that President Putin is going to invade Ukraine?
Liz Truss: We think it’s highly likely that he is looking to invade Ukraine, that is why we’re doing all we can through deterrence and diplomacy to urge him to desist. That’s why we are strengthening our sanctions regime here in the United Kingdom. We’re going to be introducing new legislation so that we can hit targets, including those who are key to the Kremlin’s continuation and the continuation of the Russian regime. We’re also supplying and offering extra support into our Baltic allies across the Black Sea, as well as supplying the Ukrainians with defensive weapons.
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