Starmer’s Russian missile gambit shows that Washington is still calling the tune of the Ukraine war
Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) looks on during a meeting with US President Joe Biden (second left) Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (right) and Foreign Secretary David Lammy (second right) in the Blue Room at the White House in Washington DC, September 13, 2024
“HE’S bluffing until he isn’t.”
Those were the scarcely reassuring words of the former British ambassador to Washington, Kim Darroch, discussing the dangers of Russian President Putin’s possible response to British missiles being fired into Russian territory.
Yet doing just that is still the preference of the Keir Starmer government and the purpose of the Prime Minister’s visit to Washington to confer with President Joe Biden last week.
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