Liz Truss

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Let's call out Russia's attacks on Liz Truss for what they are (The Independent)

Who should we hold responsible for the Kremlin's decision to raise the prospect of nuclear war? Any reasonable person might conclude President Vladimir ...

Perhaps Truss will use this propaganda to her advantage as opposed to nervously pouring herself a glass of wine and wondering if her fate has always been to destroy civilisation as we know it. For some, the name Liz Truss is an open invitation to fraternise with the enemy. Worryingly, some are more than willing to swallow and regurgitate this blatant propaganda as it mirrors not only their Brexit related neuroses but their sexism, too. Firstly, a tense exchange with Russia’s ambassador to the UK in which she reportedly told him that he should be “ashamed of himself” before kicking him out of the foreign office. Are we to believe that Truss is an apocalyptic-level danger? Who should we hold responsible for the Kremlin’s decision to raise the prospect of nuclear war?

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Liz Truss's biggest challenge is keeping her Russia rhetoric in line ... (iNews)

When Margaret Thatcher was first called an iron lady, it wasn't meant as a compliment. In 1976, a Soviet propaganda outfit published an article condemning ...

Yet the Government is adamant that it cannot go as far as measures such as a no-fly zone without risking world war three. The view of Truss is that Putin pushes until he encounters steel. On the first evening in the job, the UK announced Aukus – a new security agreement between the US, UK and Australia to contain Chinese ambitions in the Indo-Pacific. It landed badly, with European allies caught off guard by the secret arrangement. While Truss has won plaudits from MPs in recent weeks, there are also signs that she can still be a live wire. Just as Thatcher embraced the insults thrown at her as a badge of honour, so is Truss, who suggested to reporters that she doesn’t mind what insults the Putin regime throw at her. Thatcher responded: “Yes I am an iron lady – after all it wasn’t a bad thing to be an iron duke.

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