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The Independent: David Cameron responds after Marjorie Taylor Greene tells him to 'kiss my a**'
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
David Cameron has denied wanting to lecture Americans after hard-right Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene said the foreign secretary could “kiss my a**”.
Ms Greene rebuked Lord Cameron after he called for the US Congress to grant aid to Ukraine, urging modern-day politicians not to “give in to tyrants” like Russia’s Vladimir Putin as some had done during the rise of Adolf Hitler in the 1930s.
Lord Cameron angered US congressmen with an op-ed published in The Hill on Wednesday, in which he wrote: “As Congress debates and votes on this funding package for Ukraine, I am going to drop all diplomatic niceties.
“I do not want us to show the weakness displayed against Putin in 2008, when he invaded Georgia, or the uncertainty of the response in 2014, when he took Crimea and much of the Donbas – before coming back to cost us far more with his aggression in 2022.”
“I want us to show the strength displayed since 2022, as the West has helped Ukrainians liberate half the territory seized by Putin, all without the loss of any Nato service personnel.”
“I say it as someone who has a deep and abiding love of the United States – of their democracy, of their belief in freedom – [and] as someone who really believes in the importance of our alliance.”
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