David Cameron says he is not lecturing US on Ukraine aid after Trump ally tells him to ‘kiss my a**’

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David Cameron denied wanting to lecture Americans after hard-right Republican congresswoman Majorie Taylor Greene mentioned the international secretary might “kiss my a**”.

Her rebuke got here following his requests that the US Congress grant aid to Ukraine, urging politicians not to “give in to tyrants” as some politicians had achieved within the wake of the rise of Adolf Hitler.

Ms Greene informed Sky News “If that’s the kind of language he wants to use, I really have nothing to say to him” after Lord Cameron urged American leaders not to show weak spot to Russia as Europe did to Hitler within the Thirties.

Lord Cameron despatched tempers flaring amongst US congressmen following an op-ed revealed in The Hill on Wednesday, the place Lord Cameron implored allies to vote by way of a funding package deal for Ukraine.

The international secretary wrote: “As Congress debates and votes on this funding package for Ukraine, I am going to drop all diplomatic niceties. I urge Congress to pass it.”

“I believe our joint history shows the folly of giving in to tyrants in Europe who believe in redrawing boundaries by force,” he added.

“I do not want us to show the weakness displayed against Hitler in the 1930s. He came back for more, costing us far more lives to stop his aggression.

“I do not want us to show the weakness displayed against Putin in 2008, when he invaded Georgia, or the uncertainty of the response in 2014, when he took Crimea and much of the Donbas — before coming back to cost us far more with his aggression in 2022,” Lord Cameron, a former UK prime minister, argued. “I want us to show the strength displayed since 2022, as the West has helped Ukrainians liberate half the territory seized by Putin, all without the loss of any NATO service personnel.”

Ms Greene was requested if is she was “an appeaser for Putin”, pointing to the international secertary’s comparability between those that do not again additional Ukraine funding and Europe’s appeasement of Hitler within the Thirties.

Ms Greene replied: “I think that I really don’t care what David Cameron has to say. I think that’s rude name-calling, and I don’t appreciate that type of language. And David Cameron needs to worry about his own country, and frankly, he can kiss my a***.”

The congresswoman is an in depth ally to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, and has beforehand mentioned her identify is “on a list” of attainable vice-president picks for a Trump presidency.

During his go to to Poland, the Foreign Secretary has now mentioned that he is not somebody who desires “to lecture American friends, or tell American friends what to do”, however “we really do want to see Congress pass that money to support Ukraine economically, but crucially militarily in the months ahead.”

Speaking at a press convention, Lord Cameron mentioned: “We have to do everything we can to make that Ukraine can succeed in this year and beyond.

“We must not let Putin think he can out-wait us or last us out, and that’s why this vote in Congress is so crucial.

He added: “And I say this as someone who is not wanting in any way to lecture American friends, or tell American friends what to do.

“I say it as someone who has a deep and abiding love of the United States – of their democracy, of their belief in freedom – but as someone who really believes in the importance of our alliance.”