Not surprisingly, the charge for throwing caution (if there really is any) to the wind regarding Ukraine using Western-supplied long range missiles against Russia comes from London. Leading that charge is British psywar expert Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, a retired officer who ran the British Army’s chemical weapons programs for 20 years and was a promoter of both the Syria and Skripal chemical weapons hoaxes. The headline of his latest op-ed in The Telegraph says it all: “Ignore Putin’s bluffing. Storm Shadow could change the course of war.” In short, de Bretton-Gordon argues that there’s no reason to fear that Putin will use nuclear weapons and that the Storm Shadow missile is the Wunderwaffe that will inevitably lead to Ukraine’s victory over Russia.
“President Zelenskyy has relied on Britain to lead the charge of the Allies, holding off the illegal Russian invasion and thence to preventing the destruction of schools and hospitals,” de Bretton-Gordon writes at the outset. “It’s a dark portent of Labour’s leadership that he now has now indicated concerns over wavering support.”
He complains that David Lammy, the Foreign Secretary, is getting bad advice. “For the want of a Storm Shadow or two, the Ukrainian population are at a point of potential Russian subjugation. Missiles, glide bombs and long-range drones have been hammering into hospitals, schools and the power grid for months,” he claims. “This chaos could have been brought to an abrupt halt, if the UK unshackled Ukraine and allowed them to strike these threats from the Russian airfields from whence they came.”