U.S. President Joe Biden has been publicly pressuring House Republicans for months to pass a Ukraine aid package. Johnson, however, leads a fractious GOP caucus that has so far rebuffed efforts to get fresh funding to Ukraine.
Cameron, who has previously traveled to the U.S. to give Ukraine aid the hard sell, painted a gloomy possible outcome for Europe — one in which Ukraine does not prevail, and Europe is divided.
Despite wishing Kyiv to win, Cameron said “there [is] another future where Ukraine gets knocked back, and where there’s cheering in Moscow, Beijing, Tehran, Pyongyang.”
“And NATO and Europe face a future of insecurity, of questioning each other about whether we really stand up for our allies.”
Two percent plea
Cameron also urged Europe to redouble its efforts to reach the level of spending of 2 percent of GDP on defense — a key agenda of Republican ex-president Donald Trump as he bids once again for the White House.
“We need — particularly those who are short on two percent — need to see their prime ministers and presidents and push them to get those budgets,” he said.
The British foreign secretary, a former prime minister who was brought back into government last year, also urged other NATO countries to accelerate work to send weapons nearing expiry dates to Ukraine. “Those weapons should be given to Ukraine — not costly, decommissioned in our own countries,” he said.
Finally, Cameron called on Western allies to “press” their finance ministries to use Russian frozen assets — “whether through syndicated loans or whether through bonds or whatever means necessary to help in Ukraine.”