Burnham dances right on cue as warmonger puppet PM

By Finian Cunningham

Britain is being run by a puppet regime whose purpose is to sell war.

One week after becoming prime minister, Andy Burnham delivered on his assigned role to ramp up Britain’s militarism and support for Ukraine in the NATO proxy war against Russia.

Burnham hosted Ukrainian so-called president, Vladimir Zelensky, at Britain’s top naval base in Portsmouth on board the aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth.

“It’s no accident that we meet here,” Burnham told Zelensky with British and Ukrainian troops in the background. He went on to say that Britain has Ukraine’s back “one hundred per cent” and that the meeting was a signal to Russia that London was “not backing down” in its support for the Kiev regime.

In those words, “it’s no accident”, Burnham let it slip. This was indeed a calculated show of deeper British military involvement in the four-year proxy NATO war against Russia. Note that Zelensky was not received at Downing Street, which would have been strange enough. No, he was welcomed on board Britain’s flagship aircraft carrier.

Zelensky is the first foreign leader to be hosted by Burnham since he took over at 10 Downing Street on July 20. That speaks volumes about Burnham’s assigned priorities. Forget about domestic issues and dealing with the cost-of-living crisis for Britons that Burnham has appeared to be concerned about. The top priority is militarizing the British economy and sticking it to Russia.

In their meeting in Portsmouth, Burnham said he discussed increasing supplies of anti-ballistic missiles to Ukraine and scaling up Ukraine’s manufacturing capability of drones. In a provocative step, Burnham said that London was providing Ukraine with greater access to Britain’s electronic warfare system, Stone Cloak, which is aimed at intensifying drone strikes deep in Russia. British and NATO-supplied drone technology and targeting logistics have already enabled Ukraine to increase deadly strikes on Russia in recent months, with hundreds of civilians killed. Burnham is giving notice that Britain is aiming to increase the lethality of these weapons by enabling them to evade Russian air defenses.

Also on the agenda in Portsmouth was British navy training for Ukrainian troops to step up attacks in the Black Sea against Russian ships, including civilian cargo vessels carrying grain exports. Of course, this is couched in the language of “defense” and “counter-measures”.

For his part, Zelensky said that he was looking forward to setting up a “big, big factory” in Britain for manufacturing drones for Ukraine. If that goes ahead, Burnham is putting a target on Britain for Russian retaliation.

~ Finian Cunningham is a former editor and writer for major news media organizations. He has written extensively on international affairs, with articles published in several languages.