Posted on 02/09/2024 7:23:07 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson responded to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s allegations from his interview with Tucker Carlson.
During the interview posted to X on Thursday night, Putin claimed that Johnson “dissuaded” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky from coming to an agreement with Russia and avoiding a war entirely. According to Putin, an agreement had already been outlined in a document.
“He put his signature and then he himself said, ‘We were ready to sign it, and the war would have been over long ago. However, Prime Minister Johnson came to talk us [Ukraine] out of it, and we’ve missed that chance,’” Putin said via a translator.
Johnson wrote an op-ed in the Daily Mail on Friday and also issued a video response the outlet posted on X. The former prime minister joined in a chorus of political leaders that condemned Carlson to agree to an interview but was among the few mentioned by name by Putin.
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A Brit, telling us who is and is not an American Patriot. They don’t even have free speech rights in the UK.
Laughable.
Boris wants to shoot the messenger. No denial of the charges? He probably can’t.
FOAD Boris.
“In his editorial, Johnson denied what he called the “ludicrous suggestion” that the U.K. government convinced Ukraine to “fight on.””
Note that Johnson doesn’t bother to say just why he went to Kiev, AFTER the agreement was signed. AND THEN, right after Johnson left, Ukraine walked away from the agreement they had just signed.
One doesn’t have to be as smart as me to know what happened then.
I’ve never been more disappointed in a politician than I was with Boris, I had high hopes for him when he became PM.
Yep, Johnson has a lot of blood on his incompetent hands.
Isn’t there a garden party you have to go to Boris? Pompous arse.
This POS is one of the Western oligarchs responsible for the additional 250,000 dead Uke boys suffered since they torpedoed the peace. Despicable.
Boris is an “Ottoman grandson”.
One should never have "high hopes" -- or any hopes, as far as that goes -- for any Brit. Theirs is a dead culture. All that we see nowadays is the rotting corpse.
Oh please poor Vladimir Putin he just wants peace and love.
And that evil Boris Johnson forces poor Vlad to keep the entire Russian army in Ukraine for more than two years now because....
Oh yeah Ukraine isn’t supporting Russian language classes and we all know that and Boris Johnson force Russia to kill hundreds of thousands.
BTW Boris Johnson is an idiot, but responsible for the Ukraine war he is not.
Says the Hillary Clinton AI chatbot.
Why the hell does that limey bastard think he can pass judgement on a US Citizen ?
I am pretty sure we fought a war with them over that kinda thing once.
gee- i’ll bet tucker is just all broke up over that boris!
“Yep, Johnson has a lot of blood on his incompetent hands.”
Absolutely. My understanding is that the Neocons figured it was a simple land-grab by Russia, so when Zelensky asked us whether he could negotiate a deal, the Neocons figured that Zelensky would never be offered anything he could accept, as Russia would insist on taking at least the two Donbass Republics, plus holding Crimea.
BUT, Putin didn’t want those Republics, he preferred they stay in Ukraine, as long as Ukraine agreed to stop terrorizing the residents - so Ukraine could keep all of Donbass (one part of the agreement). Crimea wasn’t even mentioned, just pushed down the road. The only other provision was keeping Ukraine out of NATO, which was also ok with Zelensky...so he signed.
...and then FULL SCALE PANIC in the West, and so Johnson had to run out there and stop the deal. So now 500,000+ dead...so yeah, if I were closing in on giving Hitler a run for his money when it came to needless deaths, I’d be defensive about it too.
petulance
I would enjoy a video of a carload of guys busting the teeth out of BoJo’s lying face, then curbstomping the poofter.
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