The ever so clever James Cleverly, U.K. Foreign Secretary, has told an interviewer that we all have to suffer to help Ukraine because a Russian victory would be far worse. “If we don’t stick with our support to Ukraine, if we send the signal that aggressors can prosper, then all the problems that we are currently facing: those inflationary pressures on food and on fuel, the political pressure that comes from having a conflict like this, they will just get worse,” he said in an interview with a publication called The House, that covers the Parliament.
“Which is why the U.K.’s government position is resolute. We make that point to all our international partners. This is tough and this is painful. But it will only be more tough and more painful if we falter.”
Fatigue, he admits, is “a big thing” and “something we have got to deal with.” How to address this concern? Cleverly has banned the word “fatigue” from being used in the Foreign Office.
