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Why Lazy Reporters Will Never Grasp Europe's Coalition of the Willing

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Shankar Narayan
Mar 16, 2025
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​On March 15, 2025, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer gathered leaders from 25 nations—including France, Italy, Canada, Australia, and Ukraine—alongside NATO and EU representatives. The goal: intensify pressure on Vladimir Putin and force him to accept a 30-day unconditional ceasefire in Ukraine.

As the summit unfolded, a British journalist from a famous British website confidently declared that Starmer’s newly formed "Coalition of the Willing" was already doomed—barely two weeks in. Four hours later, he doubled down: it wouldn’t take off. Then came the historical detour—Kursk, a comparison curiously aligned with talking points straight from Trump and Putin. No effort to verify battlefield realities, no engagement with open-source intelligence, and a complete disregard for Ukraine’s outright dismissal of Kremlin-spun narratives.

But thankfully, that agenda-driven, lazy reporting set me on a different path—one of documenting what UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has done, what he is doing now, and how his actions will shape the global response to Russian aggression and Trump’s push to turn America inward.

From March 1 to March 15, 2025, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and European leaders held a series of high-stakes meetings to bolster support for Ukraine and counter Russian aggression. Does this look like a leader wasting time—or a coalition gaining momentum?

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