Posted on 06/21/2024 7:23:43 PM PDT by RandFan
Nigel Farage has said the West "provoked" Russia's invasion of Ukraine by expanding the European Union and Nato military alliance eastwards.
The Reform UK leader told the BBC that "of course" the war was President Vladimir Putin's fault.
But he added that the expansion of the EU and Nato gave him a "reason" to tell the Russian people "they're coming for us again".
In an interview with the BBC's Nick Robinson, Mr Farage was challenged over his judgement and past statements, including when he named Russian President Vladimir Putin as the world leader he most admired in 2014.
"I said I disliked him as a person, but admired him as a political operator because he's managed to take control of running Russia," Mr Farage said.
He was then pressed over a social media post in February 2022, external, when he claimed the Russian invasion of Ukraine was "a consequence of EU and Nato expansion".
Mr Farage said he had been arguing since the 1990s that "the ever eastward expansion" of the Nato military alliance and the EU was giving President Putin "a reason to [give to] his Russian people to say they're coming for us again and to go to war".
He added: "We provoked this war. Of course, it's [President Putin's] fault."
Responding to the interview, Conservative Home Secretary James Cleverly said, external Mr Farage was “echoing Putin’s vile justification for the brutal invasion of Ukraine".
Labour defence spokesman John Healey said Mr Farage's comments made him "unfit for any political office in our country, let alone leading a serious party in Parliament."
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The policy in Ukraine totally utterly pathetic.
$20 a month for their nonsense or you go to prison
I’d rather give it to FR (and do !)
By the way Farage wants to change that funding arrangement. No love lost there.
Trump saying the same thing.
https://x.com/rnaudbertrand/status/1804168864970010624?s=46&t=oXM3QUNDayEotvdo1W-zQA
Brilliant
They’re on the same page then.
Blessed are the peacemakers
>>>>The policy in Ukraine totally utterly pathetic.<<<<
What policy? We still don’t know Brandon’s endgame.
The safe bet is that a ruthless FSB agent will end up being Putin's successor. We won't know who because he's not going to be a well-known person. (Kinda like Putin when he was stationed in Berlin during the '80s).
With what money and whose children and grandchildren? Yours?
Farange made it a plank of his platform to defund the BBC. The long knives are out for him.
Now tell us how President Trump is stupid for saying the exact same thing about NATO expansion. I dare you.
Putin is a psycho. But Russia needed Putin in 2000.
Obviously, he’s the wrong guy in 2022.
There’s going to be a huge power vacuum after Putin.
Your argument is some weak sauce. Just how do you propose we remove Putin? The only way to do that is to invade Russia and that will be the end of Russia and the West. Only nutjobs and Bidenistas want nuclear war.
If removing the second half will kill the patient.
Explain how that is going to work.
Ukraine has zero chance of gaining any ground back and can only lose more territory by continuing the war.
The only chance Ukraine would have necessitates us getting involved an bloodbath. And, there is zero desire by the American people for us to get involved.
All we're doing is wasting American tax dollars in Ukraine and depleting our own weapon stocks.
Ukraine……St Zelensky……the End……finally. Now the collective West and the US can get busy fixing all their borders, try to figure out how to get out of bankruptcy, and find a cure for the Russian Derangement Syndrome.
Hopefully, the war cheerleaders will drop their war mongering……their preparations for yet another war with China will be nipped in the bud ( ass).
If by that you mean that he opposed allowing ex-Soviet nations to join NATO, yes, he was stupid. I dread the election, because on most domestic issues he's the only choice, but on Russian policy he's either a dupe of Putin or a moron. Once again, perhaps for the last time in my life, I'm going to have to hold my nose while voting for the Republican candidate. Depressing is what it is.
Brandon and his minions are the metastasis.
You must be young because NATO was expanded in the 1990s when it fact its should have been disbanded instead.
Correct. No love lost.
It's the war cheerleaders in Russia and China that you need to convince. Russia more than China, because their leader(s) are in the grip of an occult vision of their own greatness. The Chinese are equally corrupt, but objectively rational.
Name one war the west had fought in the past 70 years that had resulted in a safer world for everyone?
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