Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson acknowledged in an interview last week that the West is waging a “proxy war” against Russia in Ukraine and argued NATO hasn’t done enough to achieve victory.
“We’re waging a proxy war, but we’re not giving our proxies the ability to do the job. For years now, we’ve been allowing them to fight with one hand tied behind their backs, and it has been cruel,” Johnson said on a podcast produced by The Telegraph.
Johnson played a key role in sabotaging peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in the early days of the conflict to ensure the war would continue. While visiting Kyiv in April 2022, then-Prime Minister Johnson urged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky not to negotiate and said even if Ukraine was ready to sign a deal with Russia, its Western backers were not.
Ukrainska Pravda first reported Johnson’s message to Zelensky and said his position was that of the “collective West.” David Arakhamia, a Ukrainian official who led short-lived negotiations with Russia, later confirmed that Johnson “came to Kyiv and said that we would not sign anything with [the Russians] at all, and let’s just fight.”
In the podcast interview, Johnson said British and other Western troops should defend Ukrainian territory as part of any future ceasefire deal. “I don’t think we should be sending in combat troops to take on the Russians,” Johnson said. “But I think as part of the solution, as part of the end state, you’re going to want to have multinational European peace-keeping forces monitoring the border [and] helping the Ukrainians.”
Johnson said Western countries should give Ukraine security guarantees as part of any peace deal, but that would be an unacceptable demand for Russia. Arakhamia noted that during the peace talks in 2022 that Johnson helped end, Russia’s primary demand was Ukrainian neutrality.
“It was the most important thing for them. They were prepared to end the war if we agreed to – as Finland once did – neutrality and committed that we would not join NATO,” Arakhamia said.
The man needs repairs.
He should be in hell.
Since most world leaders are sociopaths, we can assume most of them will end up there, Boris too.
and thats just for the haircut, or lack thereof
now for the rest of his personality…
“We’re waging a proxy war, but we’re not giving our proxies the ability to do the job. For years now, we’ve been allowing them to fight with one hand tied behind their backs, and it has been cruel.”
So, who's waging the proxy war again? It certainly isn't the proxy. Maybe a Russian Oreshnik missile coming down on Boris's head is the only way he will understand who's really at war here.
Oh no! Oreshnik! The most overblown not wonderweapon the world has seen!
The oligarchs that ruke the collective West seem to prefer loss in Ukraine packaged as “continued effort” to the fast crumbling internal financial quicksand. Biris Johnson would live to have another false flag, anothet Skripal affair with Russia doung evil things on British soil. Why are they so invested in a ronect that SHOULD NOT MATTER AT ALL — only they can answer. But the trap is set — no Western country can reverse the course. They are pushed and pushed and pushed by the political class embodied in the likes of Boris Johnson. The class thar has received its marching order.
Massive deception or outright betrayal of voters is under way. Alarm belks are ringing, financial sectors seizing in UK and liquidity crisis barely avoided. Huge tarrifs generate miney to governments but will increase inflation. At the same time — nobody is asking about the total amount being collected annually. Where is the money allocated? How is it accounted for?
Nothing makes sense — except wars cannot end. As if bundreds of years of Western dominated world will come to an end if Ukraine goes back to its original, pre 2014 self. Denial is not a river in Egypt. Denial is in vogue.
Before Ukrainians decide to sacrifice themselves, please scan YouToobe's titles. You don't even have to read the actual articles to find out that you're dying in a "Proxy War!" …You're too busy and don't have time!? …Just please gooogle: "Proxy War!"
For the Ukrainians "fighting 'till the last Ukrainian," I went through the trouble of looking up the definition of "Proxy War:" "A proxy war is a war in which opposite sides use third parties as substitutes for fighting each other directly."–Wikipedia
So Ukraine as it stands is not one
Welcome to what everyone else already knew, Boris the Spider.
Borish thinks he's Winston Churchill.
He has a LOT of smoking, drinking, and pushing to gas Marsh Arabs, to get done before he's anywhere close.
"…Johnson said British and other Western troops should defend Ukrainian territory as part of any future ceasefire deal."
Stupid idea. Most people familiar with the situation there already recognize that a peace deal, especially one that cedes land to the Russian Federation or into new, autonomous regions, only means that the peace deal is a delay tactic to allow Kiev to retrain, rearm, and inevitably invade to "liberate" the regions from themselves.
Any British, French, American, NATO (worst-case) garrisons or UN Peacekeepers in Ukraine, would be accomplices by proxy. Backstopping the inevitable Ukrainian betrayal of the peace agreement.
Unless there's a Belarus-style government in Kiev, I fear any agreement ending Ukraine-Russia War I is only a pause until Ukraine-Russia War II.
I feel so bad for my Belarusian brothers
30 years under the idiot more commonly referred to as "Alexander Lukašenk0."
they yearn for freedom which is taken from them
1st Belarus was beaten by Germany, then by the Red Army, then the Soviets, and now Lukashenko
We are ruled by a herd of a national elite of rabid dogs out of bounds and on a national rampage.
The Biden dogs are on the bottom but judging by Trumps appointments they will be more dangerous than the sick, than the deranged Biden pack. During the election Trump denied to be connected to the 2025 project, one big lie, he now appoints the leading figure of the project to a cabinet position.
By my count thus far, Trump has picked two Contributors and one Author of P2025 to his team.
Expect the Author, Brendan Carr, (who wrote the chapter on the FCC and will now be head of it) to institute a flat ban on all Chinese technology (including but not limited to Huawei), all Chinese tech companies and telcomms, and all Chinese software & apps (TikTok especially) from use or operation within the United States.
I can cite chapter, section, and pages of P2025 where Carr wrote this.
Thanks for filling out the much needed details.
The leading elite is replacing a f*cked up demented criminal with a f*cked up criminal conman. What a sorry state the western democracies, and US/NATO are in, at the top are the criminal insane Israelis and Americans. I am disgusted enough to use the four letter word.
Putin made Russia great again while the Biden/Trump teams are driving the USA against a brick wall and over the cliff.
Took him only this long to figure that out.
Ukrainska Pravda first reported Johnson’s message to Zelensky and said his position was that of the “collective West.” David Arakhamia, a Ukrainian official who led short-lived negotiations with Russia, later confirmed that Johnson “came to Kyiv and said that we would not sign anything with [the Russians] at all, and let’s just fight.”
Which means no matter what the initialed draft of that peace treaty said and no matter who withdrew from that draft, the west had already made up its collective mind what they were going to do. If Boris wasn't responsible for that draft being kiboshed in 2022, he was responsible for any possible chance of future negotiations. So, it was just a matter of time before the west got what it really wanted. And Boris sure as fuck wasn't acting on his own.
"Ukrainski Pravda" eh? I guess they imitate the original in every way, including being the only official, state approved, press outlet.
ukrainska pravda is not state affiliated and if you bother to look at the website they condemn state attemps by Ukraine at harming freedom of the press.
"I'm a prick, my hair is a rats nest, I hate my life."
-Boris Johnson