“The free world overall has focused too much on getting cheap oil, cheap electronics, cheap goods at the expense of our freedom and security.”
@trussliz tells Steven Swinford that the failure to prioritise defence after the Cold War was a grave mistake thetimes.co.uk/article/liz-tr…
@trussliz tells Steven Swinford that the failure to prioritise defence after the Cold War was a grave mistake thetimes.co.uk/article/liz-tr…
@trussliz In the early hours of Thursday morning Liz Truss, the foreign secretary, was standing at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire waiting with the families and loved ones of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori thetimes.co.uk/article/nazani…
@trussliz The reunion of the families was, Truss says, the most privileged moment of her near decade in government.
🗣 "Just to see particularly Gabriella and her joy and her excitement to be with her mum again, it was just beautiful" thetimes.co.uk/article/nazani…
🗣 "Just to see particularly Gabriella and her joy and her excitement to be with her mum again, it was just beautiful" thetimes.co.uk/article/nazani…
@trussliz Truss’s profile, nationally and internationally, has reached new heights. In the past fortnight she has sanctioned dozens of Russian oligarchs, including Roman Abramovich thetimes.co.uk/article/roman-…
@trussliz Last month she earned the opprobrium of the Kremlin after saying that she supported Britons going to fight in Ukraine. Russia responded by singling her out for criticism and announcing that it was going on heightened nuclear alert thetimes.co.uk/article/russia…
@trussliz Her approach to Russia is uncompromising. There is mounting optimism among some in government about peace talks. President Zelensky has spoken positively about the negotiations and asked if the West can act as a guarantor of any settlement thetimes.co.uk/article/zelens…
@trussliz Truss, however, is withering about the prospect of a successful outcome, warning that Russia is using the talks as a diversion as it attempts to revitalise its stuttering military campaign thetimes.co.uk/article/ukrain…
@trussliz 🗣 “I’m very sceptical. What we’ve seen is an attempt to create space for the Russians to regroup. Their invasion isn’t going according to plan. We don’t see any serious withdrawal of Russian troops or any serious proposals on the table”
@trussliz 🗣 “I fear the negotiation is yet another attempt to create a diversion and create a smokescreen from the appalling [atrocities] . . . I mean, if a country is serious about negotiations, it doesn’t indiscriminately bomb civilians that day” thetimes.co.uk/article/putin-…
@trussliz 🗣 “This isn’t something he’s dreamt up in the last six months. He made a speech in Munich in 2007; we saw the invasions of the Donbas in 2014. This has been a long planned strategy. We might not think it’s rational, but I’m afraid to say it’s rational on its own terms”
@trussliz The West, she argues, needs to learn the lesson of failing to do enough to curb Russia since the Cold War.
🗣 “It goes right back to the end of the Cold War, when we reduced our defence spending. The West took its eye off the ball during the Blair years and right through”
🗣 “It goes right back to the end of the Cold War, when we reduced our defence spending. The West took its eye off the ball during the Blair years and right through”
@trussliz 🗣 “There’s been too much accommodation of trade and economic growth with authoritarian regimes over the past 20 years and too much complacency, and not enough focus on security and defence.”
Read the full interview with @steven_swinford here: thetimes.co.uk/article/liz-tr…
Read the full interview with @steven_swinford here: thetimes.co.uk/article/liz-tr…
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