During a debate on Ukraine, Sir Iain said: “The idea that just meeting Putin’s demand for territory – that he may have got or not – at the moment somehow will appease him and will satisfy his requirements is, I think, a completely wrong judgement.
He also said Ukraine is important to America “in a way sometimes I don’t think they fully understand” and urged the Prime Minister to tell Donald Trump that “if we fail on this then it opens the world again to the rule of totalitarian states who will come again and again”.
Russian president Vladimir Putin wants sovereignty not territory, a Conservative former leader has said, as he argued Donald Trump is making a “completely wrong judgement” if he thinks otherwise.
The Prime Minister should tell the US president that if they “fail” on Ukraine, the world will be vulnerable to totalitarian states, Sir Iain Duncan Smith told the Commons.
Sir Iain later said that the “road to Taiwan runs through Ukraine”, adding: “In that area around Taiwan, 72% of everything produced today in the world, is made there.
