British Prime Minister Boris Johnson met with Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson in Sweden on Wednesday and agreed that relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin should never be normalized.
“The leaders agreed that the aftershocks of Putin’s abhorrent invasion of Ukraine had fundamentally changed international security architecture,” a spokesman for Johnson said following the meeting. “They underlined that relations with Putin could never be normalized.”
The statement is the latest example of Western leaders suggesting they want to see Putin removed from office. On Tuesday, Lithuania’s foreign minister explicitly called for regime change in Moscow, claiming it was the only way for regional countries to be safe from Russia.
During his visit to Sweden, Johnson signed a military pact that vowed Britain would come to Sweden’s defense if it was attacked. “Whether it’s in the event of a disaster or a military attack, what we’re saying today is that upon request from the other party, we would come to the other parties’ assistance,” Johnson said at a press conference with Andersson.
The new pact comes as Sweden and Finland are considering applying to join NATO. Johnson also visited Finland on Wednesday and made a similar pledge to defend the country if it is attacked.
Sweden and Finland are expected to make a decision on joining NATO sometime this week and are seeking security guarantees from alliance members during a potential application period. Moscow has warned against the two nations joining NATO, and Russian officials have said Russia will have to reinforce the over 800-mile border with Finland.
People this stupid shouldn’t be allowed to play with sharp objects, forget about nations.
It’s just so precious: Britain pledges they will come to Sweden’s aid, and vice-versa too! I assume this applies to potential attacks by outer space aliens as well as Putins, right?
Shoulda coulda woulda..
Who can trust a rabid dog?
Hopefully Russia’s new leadership after Putin will be a good one and they can rebuild their relations and reputation.
Same goes for “after Biden and after Boris”
Be careful what you wish for. And, what say you about the U.S. of A. ?
Russia hasn’t attacked a fellow European country since WW2, so I don’t think it can be much worse.
The US, for all its faults, is still a democracy.
A democracy whose foreign interventions have killed about 30 million people since the end of WW2.
No, Russia isn’t a democracy, I agree on the 30 million though.
I was referring to the United States.
Then you got it wrong, comrade.
Right, it was between 20 and 30 million.
https://www.countercurrents.org/lucas240407.htm
Any links proving Russia is responsible for the same?
You silly, silly sheep.
First line of your so called calculations:
“The U.S. is responsible for between 1 and 1.8 million deaths during the war between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan, by luring the Soviet Union into invading that nation.”
Sure, then the USSR is responsible for the +50 million that died during WW2 because of the pact they entered into with Hitler.
You are not a serious person, sorry, I mean child.
Even if your analogy were true, the 20 to 30 million were SINCE WW2.
“The CIA spent 5 to 6 billion dollars on its operation in Afghanistan in order to bleed the Soviet Union. (1,2,3) When that 10-year war ended over a million people were dead and Afghan heroin had captured 60% of the U.S. market.”
Not even counting the deaths and devastation to lives the heroin market produced. Thanks for bringing that up piglet.
Silence sheep, you have forfeited your rights to put forth any arguments by showing what kind of crap you are basing your assumptions on.
Hopefully you are still in school, if so study hard and pay extra attention to when they teach you about critically evaluating your sources. That will help you avoid pitfalls like that in real life.
No assumptions. Facts. You can’t refute them, so you just do your usual trolling bullsh*t. Has the US killed anyone since WW2? And tell me Piglet, for a swine who say he’s not wallowing in mud in the US, you certainly defend them at every step.
Sheep, the site you referenced was so full of bullsh!t I don’t know where to begin.
Hence I strongly suspect you haven’t finished any higher form of education, they typically require you to write a thesis.
And when you write a thesis you need to have a healthy relationship to the sources you use.
And that, comrade, is something you know absolutely nothing about.
Piglet, I’m not writing a thesis, I’m just conversing with a moron on a comment section. But here’s a few more. Let me know if you need someone to read them to you..
https://popularresistance.org/us-has-killed-more-than-20-million-in-37-nations-since-wwii/
https://www.transcend.org/tms/2018/03/u-s-regime-has-killed-20-30-million-people-since-world-war-ii/
https://prokarm.home.blog/2022/03/07/prokarm-home-blog/
https://nworeport.me/2017/06/25/us-has-killed-more-than-20-million-people-in-37-victim-nations-since-world-war-ii-2/
Oh it is? Then why do the Dimwits not want to return the abortion decisions back to the States?
Ukraine was a democracy too, until we planned, funded, and helped the violent overthrow of the last, legal DEMOCRATICALLY elected government of Ukraine.
“until we planned, funded, and helped the violent overthrow of the last, legal DEMOCRATICALLY elected government of Ukraine.”
The Kremlin must be really incompetent if they can’t pull off something similiar IN THEIR OWN BACKYARD. But as I said previously, Putin is a clown.
They were still in “appeasement mode” with the hope that we would uphold our promises.
With all that incompetence you impute to him, why don’t go look for other monsters to destroy around the world, Herr Dummkopf
Mein Kamerad, think about the revolution and rejoice.
Putin has plenty of time. He can normalize the relations with UK and Sweden when those two countries are ready for the normalization.
Johnson acting like a big shot again.
“During his visit to Sweden, Johnson signed a military pact that vowed Britain would come to Sweden’s defense if it was attacked”. What we are seeing is a less than NATO, a backup, if Sweden politicans do not combine with NATO.
“The leaders agreed that the aftershocks of Putin’s abhorrent invasion of Ukraine had fundamentally changed international security architecture,” a spokesman for Johnson said following the meeting. “They underlined that relations with Putin could never be normalized.”
However, they don’t have a problem with kissing the a$$ of the country that destroyed Iraq, killed 500,000 of their women and children with sanctions and then destroyed whatever what was left of it again. The same country that is enabling the starvation of hundreds of thousands of children in Yemen and sanctions countries into economic misery without an afterthought. And those are just the highlights. Johnson, especially, should be aware of all the US’ “abhorrent” invasions since they were willing participants in those invasions.
The hypocrisy is striking.
It’s easy to be a peanut gallery fella but what’s your solution, smart guy?
You should be running for congress or something.
Right. Since I can’t change anything, I’m not allowed to opine. I’ll remember that the next time you give one of your well thought out comments. And yes, that is sarcasm in case your too dense to pick up on that. But Red answered for me so read his comment since it’s pretty much what I’ve been saying all along.
Beat me to it….. again!
Boris is just another one of those Brit Poodles like Blair was Bush’s.
Before parroting the English, the swedish globalist regime should take a close look at England’s spectacular failure at the snake Island.
Them being the “brains” behind the senseless failed PR stunt on the victory day and ukranian loss of some 60+ paratroopers and marines, 10 helicopters (piloted by some of their remaining best pilots and English S.A.S forces), 3 jets, 50 drones and at least one boat…..
/update: unconfirmed reports US Marine lieutenant colonel + English major from the “Royal” Marines commando brigade were with Ukr troops that landed on SnakeIsland.
The 2nd suicidal landing attempt was to rescue them.
Their fate is unknown
Ship of fools Sweden needs to think about making themselves a target.
UK is target Number One if the final exchange happens. Oh well, no great lost. An old bag and her inbreed royal pain in the A$$ family of drones would never be missed just as dinosaurs are really not missed.
In fact, a world without the UK and their royal A$$es would be nice.
ship of fools, exactly!!
the whole Western world is the Titanic heading right into that iceberg
Sweden, on the verge of a Civil War, has been invaded by criminal gangs, Muslim fanatics and other terrorists from the Middle East and North Africa, in fact they were and still is invited by the globalist regime, a NATO membership won’t make any difference since the country is disintegrating from within.
Finland is totally another matter and something Russia is going to have to deal with immediately. Finland is small, have no army to speak of and is a Nazi ally both from WW2 and now as far as Russia is concerned so Moscow is not going to tip toe in like they did the ukraine, they’ll brutally flatten it if they have to. Nato will never threaten Russia from there and that’s that.
Finland accession to NATO would be the end of its sovereignty as Russia will invade it in a few days and then EU has no Gas whatsoever…!
You are missing the point. Finland doesn’t need a standing army. When they sell their souls to the NATO devils, they get complimentary demon army for free.
Putin: UK and Sweden were never Relatable to Russia…!
Despite Russia’s success in encircling Kharkiv in the initial stages of the conflict, it has reportedly withdrawn units from the region to reorganise and replenish its forces following heavy losses.
The withdrawal of Russian forces from the Kharkiv Oblast is a tacit recognition of Russia’s inability to capture key Ukrainian cities where they expected limited resistance from the population.
Nah, Russia never encircled Kharkov, they just flanked it to fix Ukrainian forces in place and occupied the border areas north of Kharkov. Now that they moved on to Phase2 of the operation they’ve withdrawn their forces south of Kharkov perhaps because they have no real need for it at the moment. Once they’ve de-militarised Ukraine, they should be able to just walk back in.
“Once they’ve de-militarised Ukraine, they should be able to just walk back in”
You do realize how silly that sounds, don’t you?
It’s like building half of a house, then wait a decade until you finish it.
Why “just walk back in” again if you can stay to begin with?
Good luck with the de-militarization of Ukraine when Russian troops are so eager to retreat.
Send them back to Syria, that will boost their self-confidence.
Things are clear. Russia was past the point of being vulnerable, so no need to act nice any more.
So, with Russia and China consolidating Eurasian continent and spreading influence into Middle East, Africa and Latin America, US has made a decision to control Europe. Ukrainian crisis was deliberately provoked by both Nazi memory lane, prosecution of Russian speakers, and a pronounced, showy presence at Donbas border, giving no illusions of what is next. Having created a situation where Russia and China had to demonstrate status of their understanding.
With that being clarified, US is aware of the fact that it is facing major headwinds in India, Thailand and Vietnam. In Indonesia and Phillipines. In Middle East. It cannot change trajectory of Saudi-Iran rapproachment. Ethiopian gambit did not work out. Sudan or Libya neither. The most that can be done is cause few hiccups and delays but not affect the outcome in its
favor.
Africa and Latin America fronts are opening.
Old allies like Japan are at the financial breakung point. Yen cannot slide any further. Europe is devastated judging by the catastrophic fall of Euro and Swiss Frank.
The fate of Europe hangs on Germany — not Finland and Sweden. Should Germany manage to maintain its economic independence, remain undustrialized and connected to Eurasian technological boom — it would escape stagnation and militarization.
The transparent goal of using Europe, that is Germany as a bullwark against Russia may be convenient tool provided that no other crisis erupts demanding emotional hysteria. There can be only one hysteria at a time, and this one is spent on Ukraine. Russia really.
So if another crisis errupts requiring emotional hysteria buildup — it may be impossible keep the same high .
Finland and Sweden joining Nato shows just how terribly Vladimir Putin has miscalculated
Russia’s ‘strategic genius’ in Europe set to evaporate as Ukraine war pushes Nordic states closer to the West
Vladimir Putin likes to portray Russia’s existence as an ongoing struggle against a malevolent and expansionist Nato.
Part of the Russian president’s justification for the latest assault on Ukraine was to push Nato further from Russia’s borders.
He has badly miscalculated.
That he convinced himself Western nations would not come to Ukraine’s aid for the simple reason it does not enjoy the protections of Article 5 shows the Alice in Wonderland nature of his perception of geopolitical reality.
Far from abandoning Ukraine or allowing healthy differences of opinion to become fractures between partner nations, the West – and Nato – has stuck by a friend in need.
If that has frustrated Putin, wait until he sees the anticipated next big shift in Europe’s security architecture – courtesy of Sweden and Finland’s likely application for Nato membership.
Should Finland and Sweden become Nato members, it will mark the most significant geopolitical realignment in the Nordics for a generation.
“Politically, it’s huge,” Pekka Toveri, former chief of intelligence for the Finnish defence forces, said.
“The Baltic sea will become an inner lake of Nato, where the Russian navy has no ability to operate, except underwater.
“I think some in the Kremlin will wonder what the hell is happening.
Russia had a geostrategic situation in central eastern Europe that was very beneficial. They had Belarus in their pocket, a part of Ukraine in their pocket.
“Then this ‘strategic genius’ turns the tables and they’ve lost northern Europe entirely.
“Now there’s no way in hell they can protect Kola and St Petersburg if there is a war with Nato.”
The Kola Peninsula, in Russia’s extreme north-west, is home to the Northern Fleet.
Submarines and surface vessels attempting to break out into the Atlantic will be extremely vulnerable in the event of hostilities with Nato should Sweden and Finland join the alliance.
Their proposed bids looked unlikely just weeks prior to the outbreak of war on Feb 24.
“Polls since the late 90s have been remarkably consistent [with] 60
to 70 per cent of people against Nato membership, even after Russia’s
illegal annexation of Crimea,” said Charly Salonius-Pasternak, lead
researcher at the Finnish Institute of International Affairs.
“Now around 65 per cent of people support it.”
Putin has done what NATO itself never could achieve, convincing Finland and Sweden to join the alliance. What a clown, or is he maybe a western agent?
Asked on Wednesday if Finland would provoke Russia by joining NATO, Niinisto (Finnish president) said: “My response would be that you caused this. Look at the mirror.”
Source? as you like to flap your gums about. When you have a clear-cut copy and paste like that, at least give credit where you yanked it from. Obviously it wasn’t authored by you. Probably the Brit warmongering tabloid of “The Telegraph”.
Comrade, don’t spend time reading the MSM.
Nearly 100 children killed in Ukraine in April alone and actual figures could be higher, UNICEF says
UNICEF has verified that almost 100 children were killed in Ukraine in April alone, but actual figures could be significantly higher with the conflict creating a child protection crisis, a top UNICEF official told the UN Security Council on Thursday.
“In just this past month, the UN verified that nearly 100 children were killed, and we believe the
actual figures to be considerably higher,” UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Omar Abdi said.
Only animals would commit such crimes.
I hope the perpetrators are missing some limbs when they return from the war and that they drink themselves to death in their missery.
A few hundred thousand Iraqi children dead via US sanctions on Iraq slip your mind? Followed up by thousands in the US invasion on a pretext in 2003. Or Afghan kids killed by NATO in that war.
Libya ring a bell? Only a few hundreds died when NATO bombed Tripoli.
How about Serbia?
A few 10 of thousands children in Syria?
Then there is the US enabled Saudi war in Yemen. How many children starved there? How many are going to be damaged for life by starvation.
Perhaps rather than squander $50 billions on funding a corrupt and repressive puppet regime in Kiev, the US and Western Europe should use the money to give aid to the children the US and Western countries have so grievously harmed.
Afghan kids killed by the USSR…
10 of thusands children killed by bombings in Chechnya, not to mention all that grew up without parents!
Libya where the Wagner group are killing everything that moves, does it ring a bell?
Thousands and thousands children in Syria killed by general Dvornikov…
How many children are going to starve because Russia refuses Ukrainian ships full of wheat to leave Odessa and reach the Middle East and Africa???
They didn’t start the sanctions regimes. Ukraine should have allowed democratic self-determination by the Eastern Ukrainians. Certainly can’t blame the Donbassians for wanting no part of the regime that ignored their free and fair elections in Ukraine prior to the regime being hoisted on them.
Then I guess you support Taiwan’s independence to 100% 🙂
Syria? The US regime change attempt is the root cause of ALL the Syrian casualties that’s on the US DC psychopaths and it’s allies. (and other supporters).
The USSR in Afghanistan? I guess you missed that the Russians overthrew the Soviets? The Afghanistan war you refer to was by your hero’s the Soviet Communists. You know, the same bunch that annexed Crimea and the Donbas to the artificial state of Ukraine. Which is the root cause of this mess.
Libya? Same chaos brought about by US NATO regime change.
Thanks for making my points for me.
The starvation you refer to as well as the economic devastation in the world? US and NATO sanctions are the primary cause.
You do know that the Ruskies are using cluster ammunition against civilians? Ah, I guess you don’t know what that is…
“the Russians overthrew the Soviets”
Comrade, keep drinking that vodka, don’t stop now just because you are delusional.
Funny how you us “comrade” every time that brain of yours can conjure up any kind of rebuttal to what others say.
You seem angry, comrade.
Smile and think about the revolution!
The piglet proves my point.
Monday morning and school for you, kiddo!
Yes, and today’s lesson is never feed the trolls. I’m flunking troll.
Nope. There is zero creditable evidence that the Russians have used cluster munitions. Obviously. The areas they are in are pro Russian and they are trying to get rid of the AFU/Neo Nazi occupiers. .
However, there is more than ample evidence that the AFU has used these banned weapons. Human Rights watch cited this in 2016 as an example. This organization is apt to be pro Ukraine not pro Russia.
You continue to come up with nothing more than rehashed
propaganda from your deep state idols.
Comrade, don’t you see that Putin is in collusion with the deep state?
That’s why he started the war in the first place, he’s doing their bidding!
14,000 Donbassians killed by the neo-nazi regime in Kiev. Only those animals would perpetrate those crimes against a population that only wanted self-determination after the government in Kiev was overthrown and our regime inserted there.
Then of course, there are so many with the sham crocodile tears about civilian casualties when their princess, Madeline Albright said 500,000 kids killed in Iraq was worth it.
“14,000 Donbassians killed by the neo-nazi regime in Kiev.”
Reference please, Herr Rightstermeister. If you don’t have any, shut that trap of yours.
Last time I looked at the UN numbers, the claims were about 14k total killed, the largest single group being members of Ukraine’s armed forces. Civilians came in third after separatist troops.
Interesting, it seems to confirm that a lot of people on this forum have a very loose relationship with the truth.
In that area, you would be Exhibit A.
ROFL
All in violation of the Minsk Agreement that Zelensky campaigned on adhering to as the “peace candidate, in 2019.
Oh, it will be “normalized”, all right – by Russia. And the West won’t like the “new normal.”
How many nukes does it take to make UK inhabitable? Any guesses?
Likewise, how many nukes does it take to make Russia inhabitable. Why even bring the nuclear threat on Antiwar.com. Are you antiwar or pro Putin? GTFOH with you nuclear BS.
I have spent some time monitoring RT news.com and did not see anything addressing the Russian special military operation in Ukraine. You’d think it would be headline since it has taken its toll on the Russian foreign policy, but no, just pure propaganda. Good luck getting in their blog and making a neutral comment. Unless is pro Putin, it won’t get posted.
Boris Johnson is NATO’s dog visiting Sweden and Finland…… Barking and urinating to mark NATO’s territory.