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How Britain replaced the US as Russia’s villain of choice
The Guardian ^ | Sun 16 Nov 2025 01.00 EST | Pjotr Sauer and Shaun Walker

Posted on 11/16/2025 8:23:35 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Keir Starmer and Volodymyr Zelenskyy walk together. Photograph: Marco M Mantovani/PA

London and Moscow’s rivalry stretches back to the imperial era, but the Ukraine war has brought relations to a new low

In recent years, Britain has become the villain of choice in Moscow’s eyes. It has been accused of plotting drone strikes on Russian airfields, blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline, directing “terrorist” raids inside Russia, and even abetting last year’s gruesome Islamic State concert attack in Moscow.

This week, a new charge was added to the pile: Russian authorities claimed that British intelligence had tried and failed to lure Russian pilots into defecting to the west.

“The FSB [Russia’s Federal Security Service] exposed all this in great detail,” Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, told reporters in Moscow, describing what he called a British-backed plot to lure a Russian pilot flying a Kinzhal missile-equipped jet to Romania, where, he claimed, it would be shot down by Nato forces.

“I do not know how the British will wash themselves clean of it, although their ability to play the role of goose coming out of the shower is well known,” Lavrov added, using a Russian idiom that cast Britain as somehow always emerging spotless, despite its actions.

London denies involvement in all these plots.

As Moscow looks to rebuild ties with the Donald Trump administration, Britain has assumed the role once reserved for the US – the Kremlin’s chief adversary and favoured bogeyman in its propaganda war.

“Russia regards itself as on a par with the United States,” said Capt John Foreman, the UK’s former defence attaché to Moscow. “Now they can’t criticise Trump directly, so who do you blame for your woes – for the losses in Ukraine, for a million casualties? You blame the closest thing, the British. It’s...”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: bojotheclown; perfidiousalbion; ukhatesfreepeople

1 posted on 11/16/2025 8:23:35 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Because Boris was the real reason the 2022 peace plan fell through


2 posted on 11/16/2025 8:49:04 PM PST by struggle
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Smiley vs Karla.


3 posted on 11/16/2025 8:50:53 PM PST by irishjuggler
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

UK foreign policy for the last 400 years has been to oppose whoever became strong in continental Europe, and align the others against them - whether Spain, France, or Germany. The have those tied closely, so now its against Russia.

They have managed to rope in much of Atlanticist Washington DC into their schemes.


4 posted on 11/16/2025 9:19:44 PM PST by PGR88
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’ve said it numerous times. Socialists don’t really like other socialists.


5 posted on 11/16/2025 9:43:35 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: PGR88

If Britain and Germany were allies when Germany was united in 1871, the world would have been much better off.


6 posted on 11/16/2025 9:51:15 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: PGR88
The only reason that I tend to support Russia, is that it is NOT part of the GLOBALIST Trilateral Commission/Bilderberg Committee/WEF/ChiCom gang of Technocrats that CONTROL both the UK and Canaduh, and are bringing in 'digital ID', 'CBDC', and 'fifteen minute cities PRISONS'!

In the UK, Two-tier announced last month, that you will be unable to work in the UK, if you don't have a 'digital ID'. Here in Canaduh, on September 27, 2025, Crime Minister 'Circus' Carney told reporters that 'we' (the government), ‘Don’t have current plans’ for digital ID. Yet in the budget tabled on November 4, 2025, there are PLANS TO REQUIRE 'DIGITAL ID' for recipients of (un)Employment Insurance and Old Age Security, to receive their payments.

Being 64¾ today, I am DEEPLY CONCERNED about this! Especially after seeing this video exposé of these creeps! https://youtu.be/ZFHHOBiUrkg?si=nzggp3Bktf1woGCR. In case link doesn't work, search 'The Agenda: Their Vision - Your Future (2025)' by Oracle Films.

The depth of evil in these creatures, in their desire to control EVERY ASPECT of our lives is absolutely appalling! It is no wonder that PDJT is not attacking Russia, the way these Technocrats in London, d'Ottawa, Paris, Brussels, etc. are. Surprisingly, Trump AND Putin are on the RIGHT SIDE of this issue. What these WEF/ChiCom operatives want, is so far beyond anything most people can imagine, yet it is true! Truly satanic!

7 posted on 11/17/2025 12:16:33 AM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (All we need is 177k signatures to get a referendum on freedom in Alberta!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The Brits have had a passionate hatred of Russia for around 200 years. They hated the Czar and invaded Crimea in the 1850s, hated them up till the Bolsheviks took over. Refused to let the czar and his family flee to England. Hated them all through the USSR. When the USSR imploded and they repudiated communism and started their republic, the Brits kept agitating, helped their currency collapse happen. The Brits pushed this idiotic NATO expansion and Ukraine war.

No matter the type of government, the UK is stuck in the empire mentality and thinks the great game is still on and they must control Eurasia.


8 posted on 11/17/2025 1:32:57 AM PST by DesertRhino (When men on the chessboard, get up and tell you where to go…)
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To: dfwgator

That is absolutely true. Britain should have aligned with Wilhelmine Germany rather than with France.


9 posted on 11/17/2025 2:44:15 AM PST by FLT-bird
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To: DesertRhino

You are entirely spot on. The MI6 of the UK are even more destructive than the CIA or MOSAD. They have their slimy hands on every leftwing organization throughout the world. They pretty much controlled Puppet Biden (especially in regards to Ukraine).

When Russia finally drops a big smelly radioactive poop on London, I will rejoice. The leftwing cretins in the UK deserve everything that’s coming.


10 posted on 11/17/2025 3:43:33 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Perfidious Albion...


11 posted on 11/17/2025 3:56:18 AM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: kiryandil

The ancient enemy.


12 posted on 11/17/2025 4:40:09 AM PST by MrBambaLaMamba (אני עומד לצד ישראל. The only good commie is one that's dead - Country Joe McDonald)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Mother Russia is poorly. she is a threat to herself

The Paki mayor of London is the greater treat.

Political analysis


13 posted on 11/17/2025 4:46:47 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) QuidQuid Nominatur Fabricatur)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

Think WEXIT

The future is east of Suez. Europe isn’t


14 posted on 11/17/2025 4:48:31 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) QuidQuid Nominatur Fabricatur)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

FYI, I’m told there are presently in excess of 250 k Albertan signatures.


15 posted on 11/17/2025 4:50:14 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) QuidQuid Nominatur Fabricatur)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The UK has a Deep State, too.

And it hates our republic as much as our Deep State does.


16 posted on 11/17/2025 4:53:18 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I see Starmer as a bigger threat to us than Putin. Sniffy is merely incidental.


17 posted on 11/17/2025 5:05:51 AM PST by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: A Formerly Proud Canadian

Carney’s resume, his character, and the way he came to power, have 100% convinced me he is a puppet of others in the UK.

It would make sense - why would they willingly give up control of their colonies?


18 posted on 11/17/2025 7:09:49 AM PST by PGR88
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