Mr Farage has said it is time to stop opposing Vladimir Putin’s incursion into Ukraine and join forces with the Russian leader in the fight against Islamic extremists.
The Ukip leader said that Western countries must stop “playing war games in Ukraine and poking the “Russian bear with a stick” because Mr Putin is “on our side” in the war against Islamic extremism.
He courted controversy earlier this year when he said that Mr Putin, the former KGB officer, is the statesman he most admires.
In a debate at the European Parliament Mr Farage gave a speech expressing a sympathetic interpretation of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, he said European states had “directly encouraged” the uprising that “led in turn to Vladimir Putin reacting”.
Many thanks for that background info about “making friends with Putin”; given that context of “not poking the bear with a stick”, I can agree with what the ukip is saying.
Nuts.