London Goes First: Britain Keeps Breaking the West’s Taboos on Ukraine
· 13 min
Episode London Goes First: Britain Keeps Breaking the West’s Taboos on Ukraine
Bottom Line: On August 24, 2026, Ukraine’s Independence Day, Britain allowed MBDA to share classified SCALP component data for Ukrainian assembly lines, while Washington declined to sign a UN appeal urging russia to halt attacks. London has repeatedly gone first, from NLAWs before the invasion to Challengers, Storm Shadows and shadow-fleet interdiction, absorbing the initial cost and lowering the cost of imitation. Calling the war a ‘conflict’ between ‘both sides’ erases russia’s aggression, which must be named plainly.
London Goes First: Britain Keeps Breaking the West’s Taboos on Ukraine By Giorgio Provinciali and Alla Perdei · 25 August 2026 · terykon.com
Narrated by an AI-generated voice. Text by Giorgio Provinciali and Alla Perdei (Terykon).
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