Can You Never Get Atlantic Mercy Again
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On Th, Britain Foreign Secretary Liz Truss joined the Atlantic Council for the 2022 Christopher J. Makins Lecture to accost the global ramifications of Russia'south invasion of Ukraine and the West's response to Russian President Vladimir Putin's aggression. Below, edited for length and clarity, are her opening remarks and conversation with Frederick Kempe, president and chief executive officer of the Atlantic Council.
- Why Russia's invasion of Ukraine has brought an end to the world'southward "era of complacency"
- Why Putin'south assault "is a prototype shift on the scale of ix/11"
- How to ramp up sanctions pressure on Russian federation so that "their merchandise can't menstruation, their ships tin't dock, and their planes tin't state"
- Why "Putin must lose"
- Why the sanctions endgame is to "debilitate the Russian economy"
- What to expect from the "next phase" of the West's information offensive
- Why China should avoid "the company that Russia is in"
- What other countries tin learn from Germany "rethinking its free energy policy, its security policy within the space of about a calendar week"
The foreign secretarial assistant's lecture
In the tardily 1990s, I worked for Trounce. And one of my first roles was [at a] send refurbishment project in Norfolk, Virginia, just south of here, and I was overseeing two LNG vessels that had been mothballed due to lack of demand. Back then in the oil manufacture, we were modeling oil prices at ten dollars a barrel. Today, it is heading towards two hundred dollars a barrel. Information technology feels like a different earth.
We thought the energy crises, expansionism, and geopolitical strife were backside the states. We thought that peace and stability were inevitable, not something that we had to work [on] and invest in. Now those illusions have been shattered and we are paying the price for those years of complacency.
Russia congenital its capabilities in plain sight, violating its commitments and acting with dispensation in Georgia, in Crimea, and beyond. We knew what Putin was doing. We had the intelligence and Putin announced his designs on Ukraine in public. He set his intentions downwardly in black and white, and put them upwardly on the Kremlin website.
But information technology was difficult for any of us to believe. Well, nosotros believe information technology now. The earth has woken up and the era of complacency is over. We must rise to this moment. Nosotros must pledge that never once more volition we permit such assailment to go unchecked. This ways acting now. It means being tough because nosotros know the costs will rising if nosotros don't.
The public empathize the gravity of this moment. They run into the terrible suffering caused past this barbaric and illegal invasion against a European democracy and they recognize that the earth has changed. Putin has launched a full-frontal set on not just on the Ukrainian people but also on the very foundation of our societies and the rules by which nosotros coexist—sovereignty, democracy, the United nations Charter. He has shaken the architecture of global security.
The invasion of Ukraine is a epitome shift on the scale of 9/11, and how we respond today will set the pattern for this new era. If nosotros let Putin's expansionism go unchallenged, information technology would ship a dangerous bulletin to would-exist aggressors and authoritarians around the world, and nosotros simply can't let that to happen. Nosotros have to starting time with the principle that the just thing aggressors understand is strength. We must work together to ensure that Putin loses in Ukraine.
Putin thought that his tanks would ringlet into Kyiv at will. Instead, he has faced violent, organized, and tenacious resistance. At Hostomel Drome, in Kharkiv, and in Mariupol, and beyond, new chapters have been written in the history of valor. I pay tribute to the bravery of the Ukrainian people and to President Zelenskyy'southward remarkable leadership.
Putin also expected the earth to be wearisome and to be divided. Instead, he's been met with a resurgence of political unity and forcefulness. In the UN General Associates, a hundred and xl-one countries voted to condemn Russia's actions. Putin's only supporters were Syria, Eritrea, Belarus, and North Korea.
Never did we think that the great nation of Russia would exist reduced to this. Aside from Eritrea, its only allies are at present a vassal state, a rogue country, and a war criminal. Putin is shunned and isolated. He has fabricated his state a global pariah.
Every bit things go tougher in Ukraine we volition continue to increment our back up. The UK was the commencement European state to send lethal war machine assistance to Ukraine and nosotros're a top humanitarian donor. The United states of america, Frg, Sweden, Finland, Poland, the Eu, and others accept also stepped up. Our coordinated sanctions were unprecedented and they were overwhelming, cutting off funding for Putin's armed forces and putting him under growing pressure at domicile.
The fact is that the Uk, the US, EU, Japan, and Canada moved in unison [and] gave this action incredible scale. It has been, truly, global. Even Switzerland has put aside its historic neutrality. Singapore has imposed bilateral sanctions for the first fourth dimension since the 1970s, and in the United Kingdom, we put in place the toughest packet of sanctions in our history, hitting over ii hundred individuals, entities, and subsidiaries, including Putin himself.
Nosotros've hit £300 billion worth of Russian bank avails, more than any other nation, and this week, we changed the law in the Great britain to allow united states of america to take even tougher action against oligarchs and others around Putin. Today, we have sanctioned Roman Abramovich and other major oligarchs, showing that nosotros will act without fear and without favor.
This effort has been phenomenal, and it's been united, and we've done a huge corporeality. But let me be clear. We are still not doing plenty. We must double down and we have to ramp upward the global pressure on Putin. We have to get further on sanctions to tighten the vice, including a full SWIFT ban, freezing all Russian bank assets, and encouraging more countries to join the attempt. We want a situation where they tin't access their funds, they tin't clear their payments, their trade can't flow, their ships tin can't dock, and their planes can't land. And nosotros must work together to ensure justice is done at the ICC, and Putin is held to business relationship for his appalling actions. And we must practice more to evangelize defensive weapons and respond to the growing humanitarian emergency. We will practise all of this and nosotros will shape this new global era for global security.
If we are to persuade Putin and future Putins that we are serious, we need to do things differently.
If we are to persuade Putin and futurity Putins that we are serious, we demand to practise things differently.
UK FOREIGN SECRETARY LIZ TRUSS
Beginning of all, we must end the strategic dependence which puts our economies and security at the risk and mercy of malign actors. Europe remains deeply reliant on Russian energy. This provides a vital source of revenue for Putin, and it must end. Together with the The states, we announced that we will phase out Russian oil imports and I welcome the Eu'southward plan to cut its imports of Russian gas by two-thirds this year. We're working with our G7 partners to cut this dependence once and for all, to put a ceiling on the percent of Russian energy imports, and [to commit] to bring it down over time. And we need to look at how we can assistance those countries that are particularly dependent on Russian free energy and how we can increment supplies elsewhere. This will crave shared commitment over time and it will crave greater free energy, investment in new infrastructure, and for producers to exist willing to export more. I applaud President Biden's commitment to release xxx one thousand thousand barrels from the U.s. reserve, but we must also look at other areas of dependence. Whether it'southward minerals or rare world metals, we should work to prevent future problems before they sally.
Secondly, we need to strengthen our deterrence. In the UK, we significantly increased our defense spending final year, set for this more competitive age, recognizing Russia as the nearly acute threat. We are NATO's biggest contributor in Europe and we're doubling the number of UK troops in Estonia and Poland. The United States continues to pb the way on spending in NATO and others are stepping up. Nosotros're seeing a real unity of purpose. I applaud Germany'south historic decision to upward its military spending, but the fact is we all need to become further. Many countries still aren't coming together their target of spending ii percent of Gross domestic product on defense. And let's exist articulate: That is a minimum. In the Cold War, we were spending far more, upwardly of v percent. We should be set up to do whatever it takes to respond to the challenges of today and tomorrow, and nosotros must redouble our efforts to strengthen NATO's eastern flank. We accept to support not-NATO countries that could be the adjacent target of Putin's aggressions, similar our friends in the Caucasus and the Western Balkans. And we must deepen our partnerships in other areas similar AUKUS, our trilateral partnership with Australia, or our work with Canada and others to boost security in the Arctic Circle.
The NATO Strategic Concept and the US National Security Strategy volition exist vital in pointing the mode forrard. We demand to ensure that our global security architecture is fit for the new era and nosotros must lead a new global consensus where the rules are weakest: in technology, in infinite, and in cyberspace. And we have to reinforce and globalize our arms command government. We don't know where the next threats may arise and nosotros know that conflict anywhere threatens security everywhere. Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific security are indivisible. China looms large over this debate. Beijing is increasing its assertiveness and expanding its armed forces at breakneck speed. They claim a policy of not-interference. They claim to respect sovereignty and have refused to support Russia'southward aggression at the UN. We want to come across them follow through on those claims.
Thirdly, we need to develop stronger alliances around the world. The Great britain is deepening our global economic, diplomatic, and security ties, and we need to meet the entire costless world reach out. We're rallying those 141 countries that voted to condemn Russia'southward actions at the UN and we're persuading those that abstained to toughen their resolve. We need to draw more countries into the orbit of those who are prepared to stand upwardly for sovereignty.
In the past, we've neglected the strategic importance of some of these countries, including partners in the Indo-Pacific, Africa, and the Gulf. They want alternatives to working with authoritarian regimes [that] load their balance sheets with debt. And so we accept to provide an alternative through British international investment, America's initiative Build Dorsum Better Earth, and other initiatives from similar-minded partners. And we shouldn't permit anything detract from our unity.
That's why we must fix the issues of the Northern Ireland Protocol. All of the signatories of the Belfast Good Fri Agreement share a delivery to peace and stability in Northern Ireland. The UK is firmly opposed to a difficult border. The Belfast Good Friday Understanding protects e-due west ties too as n-south ties. At present, however, the protocol is creating an imbalance between communities. The UK has put forrard proposals to enable free trade to flow inside the UK at the same time every bit protecting the Eu unmarried marketplace.
Our objective is that the protocol can enjoy the back up of all communities and ensure the autonomous institutions of Northern Ireland can function. And nosotros'll need increased political will on all sides to make that happen, and pragmatism from the Eu. I desire us all to work together to resolve our differences and to be focused on the threats that we face, the firsthand threats to European stability and security. Our ultimate aim, working with all our allies, is to make the world safe for freedom and democracy.
The transatlantic human relationship is vital here. United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland and America have always been at the middle of European and global security, at the heart of a strong G7 with our friends in the EU, Canada, and Japan. We stand together to confront down aggression around the world, from the South Prc Sea to Eastern Europe. President Biden and Prime Minister Johnson are seized of this task. That'due south why in Cornwall last twelvemonth they signed the New Atlantic Lease. They promised to renew the compages of international cooperation for the twenty-get-go century, and they pledged to stand up for democracy, sovereignty, and territorial integrity. Putin should take note.
We will not rest until he fails in Ukraine and the state'due south sovereignty is restored. Putin must lose because the consequences if he doesn't are huge. So nosotros will keep strengthening our response, replacing dubiety with decision, and complacency with conviction. We must never allow our guard down once more. We will exist tough, non because we want disharmonize but because we want to prevent it. Be tough, get peace. In this new era for global security, let that be our rallying call. Thank you.
We will not balance until [Putin] fails in Ukraine and the country'due south sovereignty is restored. Putin must lose because the consequences if he doesn't are huge.
Great britain Foreign SECRETARY LIZ TRUSS
The strange secretarial assistant in conversation
FREDERICK KEMPE: As y'all run across the horrors of Ukraine, what comes next? What exercise you recall actually addresses this in a way that Putin looks at or the people around Putin await at and they say, well, this needs to cease?
LIZ TRUSS: The effects our sanctions are having are already extremely severe on the Russian economic system. I mean, we've seen, for instance, the sanctions we put on the cardinal bank have prevented the spending of foreign reserve currency. That is extremely difficult. The everyday life in Russia has completely inverse back to more what it was similar during the Soviet era. People are no longer able to utilize Apple Pay or the credit cards that they were using. Western companies like McDonald's are no longer at that place. So we have seen a dramatic impact of the sanctions, much more dramatic than Putin was expecting.
And I think one of the bug here, and why I talk about the historic period of complacency, is we didn't respond strongly enough to what happened in Crimea and the Donbas, and he got a message that we weren't serious when nosotros said at that place would exist astringent sanctions. But there is withal more we tin exercise.
The fundamental commuter of the Russian economy is oil and gas, and the accented fundamental has to be reducing dependency on oil and gas. And I recognize many European countries are very dependent. Some take equally much as eighty, 90, 100 percent dependence on Russia. We accept to help them become off that dependence. We have to find alternatives. In the longer term, that's about nuclear and renewables. In the short term, it's about finding alternative sources.
Of course, the United states can be helpful with respect to LNG, the industry that I started my career in. The Japanese take also offered to transport cargoes. We need to practice more than with the Centre E. Merely we demand to act more than now because the sooner we get more sanctions on, the tougher information technology'south going to get for Putin, [and] the harder information technology is for him to fund his armed services. And the sanctions, together with supplying lethal aid to Ukraine, are absolutely key to enabling us to ensure that Putin loses in Ukraine.
Sanctions, together with supplying lethal help to Ukraine, are absolutely fundamental to enabling united states of america to ensure that Putin loses in Ukraine.
UK Strange SECRETARY LIZ TRUSS
And you lot've asked me how quickly. Well, the G7'southward already working together on a parcel of new sanctions. Nosotros're working closely with all of our allies. As I've said, nosotros need to encourage not just usa to become deeper, merely we demand to encourage broader adoption of those sanctions. At that place [are] 141 countries that voted against Russia at the UN. We're encouraging all of those to adopt similar sanctions.
FREDERICK KEMPE: And it is remarkable, the notion of the G7 sanctioning and freezing the central banking concern assets of a G20 state. It'southward unheard of. Is the logic that Putin himself says, this is unbearable, I'll back off? Where do you remember he goes? Is the logic that it's his own internal circle says, this is enough, we've lost our yachts, we're losing our adventure to become to Western schools? How does that piece of work? Or is it an uprising in Russia? What is the endgame for the sanctions? What do you lot think Putin's endgame is? And how practise they coincide?
LIZ TRUSS: Well, the primary objective of the sanctions is to debilitate the Russian economic system to end the funding of the weaponry that is being used to destroy Ukraine. That is the fundamental objective. That'due south why financial services are then important. That'due south why oil and gas [are] so important.
And we're also sending a bulletin to Russia itself and the Russian people. Nosotros know that Putin has control of the state media. We know that other sources of information are existence cut off. Of course, the UK has fix a new information unit. We're working with allies to communicate [with] the Russian people. But nevertheless, information technology's hard to go messages through. However, people tin can run into what's happening when they take to queue at the bank or they can't go onto the Moscow metro because they can't utilize their payment mechanism. And then information technology's also a mode of communicating with the broader population exactly what is happening.
So I recall those factors are both extremely important. But it is the ability to degrade the Russian economy that is crucial to the sanctions.
FREDERICK KEMPE: How important is it right now, as we see more than atrocities coming out of Ukraine, to take farther armed forces action or war machine support… on behalf of allies, on behalf of the Britain, on behalf of the U.s.? And what specifically ought that exist?
LIZ TRUSS: Well, nosotros need to do every bit much every bit possible as early on as possible to help Ukraine in its cocky-defense. The Great britain has been supplying anti-tank weapons for some time. We're now supplying anti-aircraft weapons. Nosotros call up that's the most constructive way of dealing with the Russian aerial threat.
Nosotros are helping Ukraine on the basis of their right to self-defence force under the Un Lease, and within that framework, we need to practice as much as we can equally early equally we tin can. The Great britain has hosted a donor conference with twenty-5 other countries. Nosotros are helping logistics of getting that equipment into Ukraine.
Just that is absolutely crucial. Alongside the economic sanctions, that's the other main way nosotros accept of influencing this conflict and seeking to end this conflict every bit early on as possible.
I am very fearful that we are looking at a very long-term conflict. But what nosotros are seeing—and I remember this has exceeded expectations, specially of Putin—is nosotros're seeing very, very stiff Ukrainian resistance. We're seeing incredible bravery from President Zelenskyy and right the way through Ukrainian society, and we are seeing them resist the Russian invasion.
"Nosotros're seeing very, very strong Ukrainian resistance… We need to do all we tin can to aid that.
United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland Foreign SECRETARY LIZ TRUSS
We demand to do all we can to help that. In whatever crunch, countries always wish they'd washed more before. That's always the lesson of crises and the lesson of the build-upwardly over the terminal twenty years.
And Putin made it very clear what his intentions were at the Munich Security Briefing in 2007 but not plenty attention was paid at that time. We were besides complacent. We admittedly can't exist complacent now, and equally the United Kingdom, we are doing all we tin. We encourage all of our allies to practise all they tin.
You know, some countries have different equipment, tin can operate in a dissimilar fashion. Some countries are more dependent on Russian oil and gas than everybody, but it is a collective endeavour. I recall we take shown huge unity across the G7 and across, and nosotros need to proceed to do that.
FREDERICK KEMPE: And during your address, y'all made articulate that the sanctions weren't nonetheless sufficient and more needed to be washed. Do yous feel the aforementioned style on the military side?
LIZ TRUSS: Well, we are stepping upwardly our efforts, and aye, more needs to be done. There is continual demand and, of course, those weapons are being used. And so nosotros continue to supply more and the Ukrainians continue to need more.
FREDERICK KEMPE: Russian information operations—this is an area where your country has been a leader—they've been constant and they've included—and equally yous said, nosotros haven't responded early on enough—efforts to undermine elections, deny the assassination endeavour of Sergei Skripal on British soil, [and] and then much else.
Now Russia has used this tactic to falsely justify the invasion of Ukraine. This time, we got alee of a lot of the information. We've done a lot improve. What is the challenge now? Having been such a leader globally on countering Russian disinformation, how does it change now that nosotros're involved in a hot war?
LIZ TRUSS: In that location was a lot of attempt to preempt the Russian invasion and to call out the playbook in accelerate of the invasion. We released intelligence showing that in that location was an intention to create a puppet regime in Kyiv. Nosotros've released information virtually Russian cyberattacks.
We've used intelligence to expose what Putin was planning, the fact that he is planning a imitation flag operation to endeavour and justify the invasion, and I think that exposing [Putin's] plans and his techniques have helped us convince countries that Putin has been lying. I mean, right until the invasion, he and his colleagues were making public statements saying they had no intention to invade Ukraine.
At that place are nevertheless public statements coming from Russia that they are not fighting a war, and this simply beggars belief. I haven't spoken to a single counterpart who, in all conscience, can say the Russians are telling the truth.
And one thing, I think, that happened at the finish of the Cold State of war, the United kingdom, certainly, disbanded its information unit of measurement. We assumed that it was over, that nosotros were moving into a new era of peace and prosperity. Those information units were not disbanded in Moscow, and I call back for a number of years we were outpaced in disinformation.
We've at present created a new information unit across our regime. We are working to communicate in various ways with the Russian population and with the wider world. And we're working with our allies across the G7 to do that. And I think that's incredibly important because, too as being a traditional boxing, if you like, on the battlefield, this is also about data and perception. And we are being proactive.
And yous've asked nigh the side by side phase, what we're doing now. Well, we're calling out, you know, these false claims about humanitarian corridors that just lead to Russia, or that have mines forth the route and aren't 18-carat humanitarian corridors. We're calling out their action of bombing the maternity hospital. We're calling out what the Putin regime is doing and how they're using a similar playbook to the playbook they used in Syria. And then we are constantly working with our allies to be absolutely articulate about what the truth is. And, y'all know, I pay tribute to the brave journalists in Ukraine who are helping us expose the absolutely appalling deportment of the Russian government.
FREDERICK KEMPE: And you spoke to the ICC. Would you go so far as to say there are war crimes?…
LIZ TRUSS: Well, we are very clear that in that location is potent evidence that we are seeing war crimes taking place. And nosotros need to take that testify and recall that prove. We're working with our allies to do that. Thirty-eight countries referred the example to the ICC. We are working to collate the bear witness on the ground of what is happening, to make sure that Putin and his assembly are held to account for these appalling deportment.
FREDERICK KEMPE: You chosen out Communist china. Watching Prc right now, the 5,300-word statement on the eve of the Olympics between Putin and Xi said it was a relationship without limits. Obviously, President Xi must be looking at that differently, but on the other hand, what signs do you see? Yous said Cathay should do more. What specifically would you lot call upon China to practice? And then far, equally y'all're watching China, practice yous see them moving off of their support for Russia in any of import manner?
LIZ TRUSS: Well, information technology was meaning that Mainland china didn't vote with Russia at the UN Security Quango. And judging from the statement we saw prior to the Olympic Games, I would question whether the whole truth was told to Red china near what was planned. And equally opposed to Russia, who have said that Ukraine doesn't be, China has confirmed Ukraine's sovereignty. And what we are proverb to China is, as a country [that claims] that they believe in Ukraine's sovereignty, they need to stand with the international community in opposition to what Russia is doing. I mean, I talked in my spoken communication most the company that Russia is in, including Due north Korea and Syrian arab republic. Does China desire to be in that visitor?
As a country [that claims] that they believe in Ukraine'south sovereignty, [Red china needs] to stand up with the international customs in opposition to what Russia is doing.
Uk FOREIGN SECRETARY LIZ TRUSS
FREDERICK KEMPE: And are you seeing evidence that China is helping to support Russia annul sanctions, for example? And what message would you accept for Prc on that? Because that could exist a crucial part of what we're trying to accomplish.
LIZ TRUSS: Well, my message to Red china is they should not be aiding and abetting this bloodcurdling invasion of a sovereign nation. Do they desire the international reputation for doing that?
FREDERICK KEMPE: Putin has spoken. He's washed some nuclear saber-rattling. He's talked about chemical weapons. He'due south talked about how sanctions are an act of war. Are you concerned? Do y'all think at that place's bluff to this? Are y'all concerned that he might broaden beyond the borders of Ukraine, not kinetically, merely with cyberattacks, with other sorts of attacks? And how prepared should we be for that potential?
LIZ TRUSS: What is absolutely clear is that Putin's invasion is not going according to plan. He thought it would be much more straightforward, he didn't retrieve the Ukrainians would mountain the defense force of their nation that they had. And as a result of his program not working, he is resorting to rhetoric, to escalatory measures, [and] to, I fear, using more and more barbaric techniques, and we volition call him out for that. But nosotros must be absolutely resolute in not taking our foot off the pedal at this stage simply, instead, remaining strong, considering equally I said in my speech, that is what he understands. We must be stronger. We've been stiff in our sanctions, just we must be stronger, and we must be potent in supplying Ukraine with the weapons they need to defend their country.
We've been stiff in our sanctions, but nosotros must be stronger, and we must be strong in supplying Ukraine with the weapons they need to defend their state.
United kingdom FOREIGN Secretary LIZ TRUSS
FREDERICK KEMPE: And nuclear threat—you lot take seriously, don't take seriously?
LIZ TRUSS: Well, as I've said, he is using this rhetoric equally a distraction from the fact that his invasion is not going according to plan and he has tried to movement us off the focus on the appalling invasion that he's undertaken. I don't think we should argue on his terms.
FREDERICK KEMPE: Y'all talked about this equally a paradigm shift. We, the Atlantic Council, have used the language of inflection indicate, prototype shift, [or] historic moment, perhaps as important as the finish of World War I, World War II. That then calls upon u.s.a. to not just await at Ukraine as Ukraine but something—and considering you're talking about the end of self-approbation, it besides suggests we've been complacent. What exercise nosotros need to practice beyond this, every bit NATO; every bit the U.k., Eu, US; [and] as global allies? Do you take any specific ideas—that we're going to be working on this in the weeks and months ahead, because every bit terrible every bit this crisis is, it's not the end of what we're facing—and that'southward what you lot so powerfully underscored in your speech. Practice you have some ideas of how we should apply this moment to build on this message of [a] image shift to use it as a paradigm shift for how we likewise cooperate with each other, work with each other?
LIZ TRUSS: Well, I completely agree and nosotros demand to rethink some of our assumptions about the way we've been operating considering I talked about defense spending, I talked about deterrence, I talked virtually the global security architecture [and] about arms command; these are all central areas [in which] nosotros need to be thinking nigh what we exercise differently. And and so the other surface area I'd bespeak out is economic dependence. Yous know, nosotros've been through an era of globalization [in which] we treated all the counterparties we're dealing with as equal, but information technology's very different existence function of a trade human relationship or an investment relationship with a like-minded ally that believes in sovereignty, territorial integrity, liberty, and commonwealth from being dependent on an disciplinarian regime. So I call up in terms of our economic relationships, we need to be much clearer about the values the countries we're dealing with have, and that era of values-free merchandise, of underspending on defense I call back [is] very, very clearly over and we are in a new era. If you expect at what Germany has done in completely rethinking its free energy policy, its security policy within the space of near a week… That is the rethinking we all demand to be doing now.
We need to be much clearer about the values the countries nosotros're dealing with have.
U.k. Strange Secretarial assistant LIZ TRUSS
FREDERICK KEMPE: And is this as well a petri dish for the new Uk-European union relationship? How accept you been navigating this situation at this time with sanctions playing such a crucial function?
LIZ TRUSS: We're working very closely with our Eu allies, with our NATO allies, and as well, more than broadly, with countries like Japan, Southward Korea, Australia, and others. And this is really about a network, a coalition of countries that believe in territorial integrity and sovereignty, and in playing by the rules. I recall that'due south fundamentally important as well. And final calendar week I attended the Eu Foreign Affairs Council with [US] Secretary of State Antony Blinken; with Mélanie Joly, the foreign minister of Canada; and we are all working extremely closely together considering this has been a huge stupor for Europe. Nosotros face a threat. Nosotros never idea we would see this type of war taking place in a European country. We thought those days were over, that we moved on, and I'm afraid we oasis't moved on. And this doesn't merely apply to the politicians in the country; this is what our public feel like, too. We feel a different level of business organisation about security than anything we've felt like for the past—well, for my lifetime.
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Image: UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss speaks with the Atlantic Quango at the 2022 Christopher J. Makins Lecture on March ten, 2022. Photograph via Elman Studio.
Source: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/uk-foreign-minister-putins-invasion-of-ukraine-is-a-paradigm-shift-on-the-scale-of-9-11/
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