Watch Out, Vlad! Here Comes the British Invasion
Watch Out, Vlad! Here Comes the British Invasion
“You heard it here first”? Within less than 48 hours of publishing my previous article — aptly titled “The UK is Trying to Drag the US into World War III” — the most decisive evidence yet for the thesis conveniently emerged. This was thanks to The Times newspaper, which reported that British “boots on the ground” have been deployed to Ukraine. It’s the first time that the armed forces of any NATO member state were confirmed to be physically present inside Ukraine since the war started on February 24.
If the UK Government really does aim to position itself at the “vanguard” of an escalating military intervention, in hopes that it can cajole the US into hotter and hotter warfare — as I reported in the previous article — then this seems like a pretty plausible way of going about it. Is the US content to just sit around and let itself be one-upped by the British, who have now demonstrated their willingness to boldly send “boots on the ground” in defense of freedom and democracy? While the mighty US dithers impotently on the sidelines?
Oddly, the response to the Times revelation has been conspicuously muted. At least from my vantage point here in London. And maybe that’s by design: the article was published at 10pm local time on the Friday of Easter weekend, and as I recently discovered, Easter weekend in England a big four-day Bank Holiday bash. So maybe the article was intentionally “buried” to dampen its effect — or maybe the timing was just an innocent coincidence. Either way, there’s been a curious lack of followup or even significant discussion in the days since the news broke. Maybe some inscrutable code of omertà reigns within the UK press corps? For all the problems with US media, it’s not quite as weirdly incestuous and insular as media in the UK.
While the story was reported fairly prominently in The Times, its placement had to compete with the latest news on Meghan Markle’s misadventures — chronicled of course by Piers Morgan, who is pictured on the front page pointing and shouting. By also managing to incorporate Donald Trump into the headline, The Times truly summoned the gods of Search Engine Optimization:
Whatever curious details around the article’s publication, the information is now in the public record: the UK has deployed soldiers to Ukraine. A well-placed American person, whom I regard as highly credible, subsequently told me that this deployment had been known for some time within elements of the US military.