{"id":1971034,"date":"2023-07-12T16:36:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T20:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/were-not-amazon-u-k-defense-chief-suggests-ukraine-should-be-more-grateful-for-aid\/"},"modified":"2023-07-12T16:37:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T20:37:45","slug":"were-not-amazon-u-k-defense-chief-suggests-ukraine-should-be-more-grateful-for-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/were-not-amazon-u-k-defense-chief-suggests-ukraine-should-be-more-grateful-for-aid\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Defense Chief: Ukraine Should Show More Gratitude for Aid, Unlike Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwere-not-amazon-u-k-defense-chief-suggests-ukraine-should-be-more-grateful-for-aid%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1971034&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>A Call for Gratitude: UK Official Urges Ukraine to Appreciate International Aid<\/h2>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fed-found-economy-is-recovering-much-faster-than-officials-expected\/\" title=\"Fed Found Economy Is Recovering Much Faster Than Officials Expected\">top official<\/a> from the United Kingdom had some advice for Ukraine this week, telling the country to show more gratitude for the billions of dollars in international aid it has received from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Wallace, Secretary of State for Defence of the United Kingdom, made the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/uk-not-an-amazon-delivery-service-for-weapons-to-ukraine-says-defence-secretary-ben-wallace-12919765\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">comments<\/a> Wednesday at the NATO summit in Lithuania when he was asked to comment on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky\u2019s frustration with the timeline of becoming a member-state.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere is a slight word of caution here, which is that whether we like it or not people want to see gratitude,\u201d Wallace told journalists during a briefing. \u201cMy counsel to the Ukrainians is sometimes you\u2019re persuading countries to give up their own stocks [of weapons] and yes the war is a noble war and yes we see it as you doing a war for \u2014 not just yourself \u2014 but our freedoms.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Wallace added that he sometimes hears \u201cgrumbles\u201d from politicians in the United States \u2013 which has given the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">largest amount<\/a> of aid to Ukraine by far \u2013 regarding a lack of gratitude from the country, to which American political leaders have said \u201cWe\u2019re not Amazon\u201d according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-top-pentagon-official-blasts-biden-his-comments-about-chinas-genocide-are-outrageous\/\" title=\"Former Top Pentagon Official Blasts Biden: His Comments About China\u2019s Genocide Are \u2018Outrageous\u2019\">defense chief<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace said he has expressed the same sentiment as many in Washington, \u201cI said to the Ukrainians last year, when I drove 11 hours to [Kyiv to] be given a list \u2014 I said, I am not Amazon.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Expressing Frustration: Ukraine&#8217;s Quest for NATO Membership<\/h3>\n<p>Earlier in the NATO summit, Zelensky expressed his frustration over the timeline of Ukraine becoming a member state, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/07\/11\/zelensky-slams-weakness-of-absurd-biden-stance-on-nato\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">calling it<\/a> \u201cunprecedented\u201d and \u201cabsurd.\u201d A summit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/ukraine-show-gratitude-west-support-ben-wallace-nato\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announcement<\/a> issued Tuesday stated that NATO would be \u201cin a position\u201d to invite Ukraine to join the alliance only \u201cwhen Allies agree and conditions are met.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Gratitude and Support: A Shared Perspective<\/h3>\n<p>White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan expressed a similar sentiment as the U.K. defense chief, saying the American people deserve gratitude for the extent to which the country has supported Ukrainian war efforts through taxpayer dollars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the American people do deserve a degree of gratitude from the United States government for their willingness to step up and from the rest of the world as well,\u201d Sullivan said at the summit, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/were-not-amazon-u-k-defense-chief-suggests-ukraine-should-be-more-grateful-for-aid\/\" title=\"UK Defense Chief: Ukraine Should Show More Gratitude for Aid, Unlike Amazon\">avoiding directly addressing<\/a> the Ukrainians.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1688831213092000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1PLjNvPE9xhE43TkDJzri8\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Despite Wallace\u2019s statement, U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said that Zelensky had already \u201cexpressed his gratitude for what we\u2019ve done on a number of occasions,\u201d and offered to \u201ccontinue to give him the support he needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since the war began, the United States Congress has allocated roughly $113 billion in aid to Ukraine; no other country has come close to what the U.S. has sent. And last week, the White House announced that cluster bombs would be included in an $800 million weapons package to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden has previously pledged to support Ukraine for \u201cas long as it takes,\u201d despite some Republicans in Congress expressing their reservations on continued support and roughly 44% of Republican and Republican-leaning independent voters believing the country is sending too much, according to a Gallup poll.<\/p>\n<p>In early May, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) wrote to a New York Times reporter in an email, \u201cI just got back from meeting with the Ukrainian Parliament in Poland, where they demanded F-35s and thought it was an obligation for every American to pay $10 a month to fund their war.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK official advises Ukraine to express more gratitude for international aid. 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