Posted on 01/29/2023 8:01:50 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
“Ukraine: Boris Johnson says Putin threatened him with missile strike”
“Boris Johnson has said Vladimir Putin threatened him with a missile strike in an “extraordinary” phone call in the run up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The then-prime minister said Mr Putin told him it “would only take a minute”.
Mr Johnson said the comment was made after he warned the war would be an “utter catastrophe” during a “very long” call in February 2022.
Details of the exchange are revealed in a BBC documentary, examining
Mr Putin’s interactions with world leaders.
Mr Johnson warned Mr Putin that invading Ukraine would lead to Western sanctions and more Nato troops on Russia’s borders.
He also tried to deter Russian military action by telling Mr Putin that Ukraine would not join Nato “for the foreseeable future”.
But Mr Johnson said: “He threatened me at one point, and he said, ‘Boris, I don’t want to hurt you but, with a missile, it would only take a minute’ or something like that. Jolly.
“But I think from the very relaxed tone that he was taking, the sort of air of detachment that he seemed to have, he was just playing along with my attempts to get him to negotiate.”
President Putin had been “very familiar” during the “most extraordinary call”, Mr Johnson said.
It is impossible to know if Mr Putin’s threat was genuine.”
Update on Russian military operations in Ukraine for January 30, 2023:
- Russian forces continue encircling Bakhmut in the east and pushing toward Vugladar in the south;
- pro-Ukrainian Western volunteers admit the bleak situation Ukraine faces overall and specifically in Bakhmut;
- one volunteer admits that Wagner is better trained, better equipped, better organized and lead than Ukrainian forces fighting in Bakhmut;
- this volunteers admits Wagner is surrounding and may possibly cut of Bakhmut like in Mariupol;
- this volunteer admits Ukraine suffers from immense corruption and incompetence coupled with Western sponsors indifferent to their growing crisis;
- this volunteer admits that tanks are a "secret acknowledgement that things aren't going well;"
- the volunteer would like to see more Western advisors leading Ukrainian units in battle, a slippery slope toward direct NATO intervention;
- growing skepticism continues to surround pledged Western main battle tanks;
- US policy makers appear to suggest this strategy may be essentially a bluff to convince Russia it is more prepared than Moscow for a long-term conflict;
The poles and Bulgarians are the unsung hero’s of this war, while other study debate calculate and squirm. They have acted from the beginning and for good reason. Just look what the “brothers” of Ukraine do, like they did to Poland their words are lies and the Baltic states know this. Putin and his stooges can say all they want about nazis and imperialist. Much like the dims here, what they accuse others if they themselves are doing God bless the Poles, Estonians Latvians Bulgarians Fins Danes and many others who acted rather than “Studied”, but top on the list is Poland and Bulgaria
Was that not a V on the hull?
I have Kazan keeps in touch with cranked on the western front lol
Your funny
I am confident that in addition to already training on leopards and bradleys…. Ukrainian air floor e members have for some time been training multiple western airframes
Going from contested air space via ground to air to air to air will identify another lost export market for Russia
Where do you live in RuZZia?
Perun on YouTube has done several good videos on this topic what many don’t know is that if oil doesn’t flow through a pipeline esp in cold temps the pipeline will be destroyed. Well heads need to flow or they are damaged. Russia does not have the abilities to fix these and they do t have the tankers to move the product even if they had customers. If they do have customers pretty sure they are losing money on the sales with the low prices demanded discounts and shipping costs
I agree with you - and Poland in particular.
My guess is some of each, fighters and longer range missiles. Aviation overhaul facilities for fighters might be more difficult to secure on Ukrainian soil, so maybe they’ll need a component/module exchange with a neighboring nation. On long range missiles, they need to be able to hit whatever launches at them from the sea and from the other side of the border.
We’ll simply need to control our fear of being nuked, or Russia and its allies will carry out an expansionist rampage from country to country. Breakouts like that can go pretty fast within a very few years, which can lead to us having a much enlarged and more difficult problem on our hands.
What Bulgaria did at the beginning of the war saved Ukraine. Not much has been reported but weapons ammunition and fuel were key. They acted will west “studied”
“”I’ll take a 50% win for now.””
Me too, we will eventually get Sweden but Finland is the most important.
I think that “volunteer” mentioned all of your current talking points very well.
Sort of like the media always finds that “lifelong republican voter” “until this candidate”.
You and your ilk literally are the ones repeating and believing the Biden regime's narrative about the war and trying to pass it off as factual despite the fact the regime lies about everything else.
You had to call names to respond?
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