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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolf" data-source="post: 115395" data-attributes="member: 199">Here's the article in full. Had to use 2 posts as the 10,000 character limit kicks in.<h3></h3><h3></h3><h3>Britain goes full Orwell accusing Putin of imperialism</h3>Foreign Secretary David Lammy launched into a weird rant against Russia, accusing it of the crimes Britain has committed<a href="https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/tarik-cyril-amar/" target="_blank"><img src="https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2023.11/original/6547ab332030276c28448944.jpg" alt="Tarik Cyril Amar" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a><a href="https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/tarik-cyril-amar/" target="_blank">By Tarik Cyril Amar, a historian from Germany working at Koç University, Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory</a><a href="https://twitter.com/tarikcyrilamar" target="_blank">@tarikcyrilamar</a><a href="https://tarikcyrilamar.substack.com/" target="_blank">tarikcyrilamar.substack.com</a><a href="https://www.tarikcyrilamar.com/" target="_blank">tarikcyrilamar.com</a><img src="https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2024.09/xxs/66fa86f820302765d1103ca6.jpg" alt="Britain goes full Orwell accusing Putin of imperialism" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />David Lammy, Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom, addresses the UN Security Council session at the 79th General Debate of the UN General Assembly. ©  Michael Kappeler/Getty ImagesThere are intriguing and disappointing – though not surprising – continuities between Great Britain under the conservative Tories and the current iteration under a hardly less rightwing version of the Labour party. Crony <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/00769c5f-96b1-4c23-823a-de07900bcbca" target="_blank">corruption scandals</a> that reveal the British political elite as comically greedy and petty are already erupting again. Ordinary people still face an unforgiving search for “austerity”; indeed, given recent Labour moves on the budget, for instance on the <a href="https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1953318/Winter-fuel-payment-pensioner-fears-dying" target="_blank">winter fuel allowance</a>, affecting over ten million frequently vulnerable pensioners, the so-called “Left” <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/09/27/3-million-over-80s-hit-winter-fuel-raid/" target="_blank">is now outdoing the Right in cruelty</a> toward the common man and woman. And the fairly new prime minister, Keir Starmer, is already <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/09/27/politics-latest-news-starmer-labour-us-trump/" target="_blank">as deeply unpopular</a> as his predecessor Rishi Sunak was when he called the elections that predictably finished him off.And then there is foreign policy. There as well, it is hard to spot a difference. It is true, we have just learned that, once, former Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson was seriously considering an “aquatic raid” (say that with a Churchill growl, please) on the Netherlands, a NATO ally, to seize Covid vaccines. We have not yet heard of similarly exotic plots laid by Starmer. But otherwise, same old, same old. The UK elite remains fatally addicted to a blind loyalty toward its special relationship with the US that sometimes could make even the Germans blanch with envy. And they know a thing or two about absolute submission.London also won’t let go of its position as Europe’s hottest cheerleader for the proxy war against Russia via Ukraine, at least outside the Baltics. Officially, the British government is still promoting the idea of co-launching Western-supplied missiles from Ukraine deep into Russia. Never mind that <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crrlr87e5elo?at_link_id=220C84B4-7203-11EF-A8C8-B7E45F50C80C&at_medium=social&at_bbc_team=editorial&at_link_type=web_link&at_link_origin=BBCWorld&at_campaign=Social_Flow&at_format=link&at_campaign_type=owned&at_ptr_name=twitter" target="_blank">Moscow has made it clear</a> that it will consider such a policy as bringing all of NATO and Russia into direct military conflict – not (barely) indirect as up until now. Moreover, the Russian leadership has also put the West on notice that cut-out games won’t work. The core point about its <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/kremlin-says-changes-russias-nuclear-policy-are-signal-west-2024-09-26/" target="_blank">recent revision of Russia’s nuclear doctrine</a> is that not only the ostentatious direct attacker state but its supporters as well are fair game – as they should be – for retaliation.There may well be an element of fairly cheap theater in London’s posturing as a missile street tough. Think of a dog madly barking behind a closed gate, precisely because it knows the gate is closed and it won’t have to act on its ferocious threats. The role of the gate is played by Washington, which fails to allow the brilliant British-Ukrainian Armageddon-Come-and-Get-Us plan to go ahead, <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2024/09/27/joe-biden-preventing-ukraine-storm-shadow-missiles-russia/?msockid=14ee70ec34386f2036a3646535fe6e0d" target="_blank">as the Telegraph has just bemoaned</a>. How convenient: We’d be (insanely) brave, really, if only we didn’t have to be so obedient, too.<a href="https://www.rt.com/news/604491-israel-brutally-attacks-lebanon/" target="_blank"><img src="https://mf.b37mrtl.ru/files/2024.09/xxs/66f1452185f540528e1d398e.jpg" alt="What does Putin have to do with Israel’s attacks on Lebanon?" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a><a href="https://www.rt.com/news/604491-israel-brutally-attacks-lebanon/" target="_blank">Read more</a> <a href="https://www.rt.com/news/604491-israel-brutally-attacks-lebanon/" target="_blank">What does Putin have to do with Israel’s attacks on Lebanon?</a>Yet, at least as far as stentorian rhetoric is concerned, the UK’s government will certainly not be outdone. The problem with all the big talk, though, is that it can easily veer off into declarations so unusually hyperbolic and absurd that they backfire. Think of this current British mood as the very opposite of that fine understatement for which the island’s culture used to be famous. An example of this kind of self-defeating bombast was recently delivered by Foreign Secretary David Lammy.Trying to reach an international audience, especially in a Global South that has long given up on the West, Lammy launched into a rant – there really is no other word – about Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin. The whole thing was rather cringe, as if trying to outdo his infamous German colleague Annalena ‘360 Degrees of Anti-Diplomacy’ Baerbock in demeaning his own office. Lammy, for instance, apparently felt no shame denouncing Moscow’s “disinformation” – that, from one of the West’s worst deniers and enablers of Israel’s many crimes, including its Gaza genocide and devastation of Lebanon. Frankly Russia, at this point: just wear it with pride.But the perhaps most stunningly grotesque moment occurred when Lammy sought to make opportunistic use of the horrific history of modern slavery. “As a black man,” he stated, “whose ancestors were taken in chains from Africa, at the barrel of a gun to be enslaved, whose ancestors rose up and fought in a great rebellion of the enslaved” he had a special knack for recognizing “imperialism.” By that he meant, of course, Russian imperialism.</blockquote>

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