Hamish de Bretton-Gordon

Jan 15, 2025 | telegraph.co.uk | Hamish de Bretton-Gordon

As Donald Trump’s march to the White House nears its culminating point, it seems clear that he is going to try and change the dynamics in the Ukraine war by enforcing a ceasefire on Russia. Hitherto, Putin may have believed that Trump would be his saviour after his disastrous Special Military Operation, which has cost nearly a million casualties for Russia thus far, is going rapidly “south”.

Jan 13, 2025 | telegraph.co.uk | Venetia Rainey |Hamish de Bretton-Gordon |Jotam Confino

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Jan 11, 2025 | telegraph.co.uk | Hamish de Bretton-Gordon

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Jan 11, 2025 | yahoo.com | Hamish de Bretton-Gordon

Following my trip to Syria this week, I am even more convinced that parliament’s decision in September 2013 not to strike and oust Bashar al-Assad after the Obama Redline disappeared and the Syrian regime’s killing of 1500 people in a massive chemical attack on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta was a dreadful strategic and humanitarian error. The Syria of 2013 was not like Iraq in 2003 (I was there) as Ed Miliband and many of the then Labour Party believed.

Dec 8, 2024 | independent.ie | Hamish de Bretton-Gordon

Today, anybody who knows anything about the real Syria is rejoicing at the news that President Assad can no longer torture, murder and gas the people of that ancient land. His evil lieutenants are gone, the malign influence and airstrikes of Vladimir Putin have all but gone, and the mullahs in Tehran can no longer spread their evil gospel across this beautiful country. Today we rejoice: tomorrow, the hard work of transition must begin.