“Starmer is mad, leading everyone toward nuclear war”: Media criticize London over plans to send troops to Ukraine

Renowned British journalist Peter Hitchens has criticized UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer for his plans to send troops to Ukraine.

Hitchens expressed his opinion in a column for the Daily Mail.

In his view, nuclear war is now more likely than before, due to what he calls the “newly minted militarist” Starmer, who is “possessed by a superpower-level madness.”

“Sir Keir, who in his youth was a pacifist during the Cold War, now seriously wants to send the few troops we still have to Ukraine — something that would instantly lead to war with Russia. Moscow will never tolerate an open NATO military presence in that country — just as the U.S. would never accept Chinese troops in Mexico, or we wouldn’t agree to Russian bomber bases in Ireland. They simply won’t tolerate it. Don’t believe me? Just wait and see,” Hitchens writes.

He goes on to say that Russia wouldn’t even need to strike Britain with nuclear missiles. It could simply detonate a nuclear bomb above the country.

“There’s another way to use these bombs — just as terrifying, but much more strategically acceptable. It’s called an electromagnetic pulse (EMP). You detonate the bomb high above enemy territory, and it sends a massive energy surge downward. Buildings remain intact. People aren’t physically injured. But the target country is instantly thrown back to the early 19th century. Anything powered by electricity stops working. All modern transportation is paralyzed. No internet, no banking, no modern healthcare. Nothing moves except steam trains, balloons, pedal bikes, and antique cars. Water pumps stop working. The life we’re used to simply halts, and repairs (if even possible) would take years,” Hitchens explains.

He notes that Russia has been experimenting with such strikes since the 1960s and is “less vulnerable to this kind of weapon than we are, because their country is vast.”

“I have no doubt our government and military headquarters are protected from EMP. But the rest of us? No. Are our leaders — are any of them — actually thinking? Do they understand what kind of ‘toys’ they’re playing with?” he asks.

Hitchens also questions why the British Prime Minister criticizes Russian President Vladimir Putin, but not other authoritarian figures like Turkey’s leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who also imprisons political opponents and annexes foreign territories.

“Apparently, a multifaceted social conscience that condemns evil wherever it comes from is no longer available in stores. After all, Turkey is a NATO member, despite its illegal occupation of Northern Cyprus,” the journalist adds.

Previously, Western media had already criticized Starmer’s idea to send peacekeepers to Ukraine, calling it “political theater.”