The UK appoints a failed PM as its new foreign secretary — RT World News

Within hours of being appointed Britain’s new foreign secretary, former Prime Minister David Cameron landed in Kiev.

Cameron had already decked out his LinkedIn and X (previously Twitter) profile pictures within the brilliant yellow and blue colours of the Ukrainian flag which, in his new position, was like having a web-based courting profile only for Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky – an open invitation to return take a spin on Santa Cameron’s knee along with his want checklist simply in time for Christmas. And Zelensky didn’t waste any time, both.

As the 2 loved their first date, Cameron repeated cribbed pickup traces from the Western speaking level playbook, saying that Britain will give Zelensky “the military support that you need, not just this year and next year but for as long as it takes.”

It positive didn’t take Cameron lengthy to rise up to hurry on the total Western agenda for Ukraine, as he was arguably considered one of its early pioneers. “I think the process started under my premiership of sending more troops to frontline states in NATO; to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, let’s turn some of those into permanent bases,” Cameron mentioned in 2022, proudly advocating in favor of permanency for the sort of anti-Russian encroachment by NATO that contributed to the present battle. In 2015, he had already despatched British troops to coach Ukrainians harassing Russophones in Donbass – the identical 12 months that the UK’s Canadian allies have been warned about neo-Nazis inside Ukrainian ranks, as the Ottawa Citizen has reported. Cameron was one of many earliest proponents of anti-Russian cancel tradition, having led the cost for Moscow to be kicked out of the G8 in 2014.

Cameron had mercifully dropped off the political radar since leaving workplace in 2016. As president of Alzheimer’s Research UK, he had been busy devoting himself to the noble explanation for combating towards individuals’s lack of ability to recall his tenure.

But then present Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was left with an empty chair aboard the Titanic after tossing Home Secretary Suella Braverman overboard for saying that asylum seekers have been hoping to up their possibilities by pretending to be homosexual. That was shortly earlier than calling pro-Palestinian protests a “hate march.” Sunak shuffled the present foreign secretary into Braverman’s chair, however then wanted to search out another person among the many nation’s 67 million residents to fill the job of being Britain’s face to the world.

So he reached into the bin of current UK political historical past and determined to recycle David Cameron. It’s price recalling how Cameron ended up in that bin within the first place. In a uncommon second of lucidity, he put himself there.

Clearly assured that the entire concept of Brexiting from the EU would have marginal help, as he instructed Brits that they’d be catering to Russian President Vladimir Putin and to Islamic State in the event that they dared to go there in a referendum on the topic, he ended up staking his profession on it. And dropping. Taking himself out with the post-Brexit mop-up.

Who wants the specter of Russia or every other foreign adversary to divide Britain when Cameron himself was capable of single-handedly create shockwaves all through British society that brought about dust-ups between relations over Sunday roast, between colleagues on the water cooler, and between mates down the native pub? Regardless of the place one stands on the Brexit challenge, it’s important to admit it’s fairly a spectacular feat for any chief to spark such unrest that he finally regime-changed himself.

It’s not like Cameron didn’t have a lot of prior apply with regime change. He insisted on using shotgun alongside French President Nicolas Sarkozy on regime-changing former Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi. In one other feat of self-owning, a fee that Cameron himself chaired, on ‘State Fragility, Growth and Development’, discovered that Cameron and Sarkozy had made the mistaken name. “Variants of the strategy exemplified in Iraq have been implemented again and again. Colonel Gaddafi in Libya, President Mubarak in Egypt, President Mobutu in Zaire and oppressive rule over South Sudan and the Taliban in Afghanistan: the ousting of all these regimes have been followed by ‘pop-up democracy’. Yet none of these societies duly became flourishing democracies. Instead each disintegrated into varied degrees of disorder,” it concluded.

Former US President Barack Obama used to brag on the time that Washington was capable of obtain its strategic goals in Libya with out placing American boots on the bottom. Well yeah, as a result of technically the US had outsourced the majority of that specific fiasco to Cameron, and to Sarkozy who now faces an anticipated trial in 2025 over allegations that he took money from Gaddafi to finance his 2007 election marketing campaign.

So whereas Sarkozy could or could not have had an curiosity in tying up unfastened ends, what was Cameron’s excuse? It’s not like he was even capable of accept a pat on the pinnacle from Obama for his efforts, as the previous Oval Office occupant reportedly circled and privately blamed Cameron for the truth that Libya had grow to be a “s**tshow.” As a results of the mess, Britain is now grappling with an inflow of African migrants and controversy over having them floating out on a barge off the UK shore. Gaddafi himself warned France 24 TV previous to the invasion that France and Italy can be flooded with migrants. Clearly the UK has been, too. And has Cameron to thank.

But since Cameron apparently felt that he was on such a roll, he determined to assist upend Syria, too. Initially, in 2013, he couldn’t get sufficient help in British Parliament for a direct assault on President Bashar Assad, however that didn’t cease him from shaking free sufficient change from the wallets of UK taxpayers, even in a time of presidency austerity, to assist fund Western-backed Syrian rebels to do the soiled work on making an attempt to regime-change Assad extra covertly. Cameron additionally tried browbeating Obama and different Western leaders to get extra aggressive with Assad.

This all sounds just like the sort of confirmed observe file and levelheaded competence that Britain wants proper now in its foreign affairs.

About the one factor lacking now’s former British Prime Minster Tony Blair’s Iraq War ‘success.’ And what are you aware… Blair has additionally just lately mentioned that he’s standing by and able to assist out with the humanitarian scenario in Gaza, in response to the Financial Times. It all feels like such a Dream Team for world peace. Too unhealthy that every one the opposite choices, like as a substitute hiring the following 5 guys who descend from a random bus cease in London, have apparently been dominated out.