Post by account_disabled on Mar 9, 2024 3:57:16 GMT
Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson aims to stay close enough to Donald Trump to persuade him to back Ukraine against Russia. If Trump ditches Ukraine and NATO, he could offer a dangerous window of opportunity for Putin to attack the Baltics, relying on his advantage in nuclear battlefield weapons." 9 February, 2024 Brexit , News In Spanish , News Trump is overwhelmingly likely to be the Republican candidate for President, and some polls show him beating Biden in approval ratings by a significant margin. Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has declared his support for Donald Trump, but with a quite big string attached. “If he does the right thing and backs the Ukrainians — and I believe he will —,” says Johnson, “a Trump presidency can be a big win for the world. " Critics of Johnson would say he is showing his true populist colors by backing Trump. But for Johnson to back Trump on the basis that Trump will do the polar opposite of what he is expected to do if he is elected President needs more explaining than that.
Trump described Putin's invasion of Ukraine as “genius” and “savvy” , and has boasted that he – Trump – would resolve the Ukraine war in 24 hours, with the implication that Ukraine would have to cede to Russia the territory that Russia currently holds. Trump's indifference to the fate of Ukraine, and his admiration for Putin, goes hand in hand with a disdain of NATO. In 2020 Trump reportedly told EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen that NATO was dead and that the US would never come to Europe's aid if it was attacked. Trump first took a liking to Johnson because he saw in Johnson a British version of USA Phone Number himself, and he said as much In July 2019 when Johnson won the leadership of the Tory Party and became the UK's Prime Minister. Trump saw himself as challenging the elites in Washington, and Johnson seemed to Trump to be fighting much the same battle with the elites in Brussels. Left-wing critics of Johnson have liked him to trump, and to European populists like Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Johnson certainly shares with Trump an impatience with detail, and an aversion to politics beyond the length of a soundbite.
And in the run-up to the 2016 Brexit referendum he was accused of being a Putin-apologist when he blamed the EU for Russia's attacks on Ukraine in 2014. But if Johnson is a populist, he is not one in the mold of Viktor Orban or Donald Trump, and he is no Putin-apologist, let alone admirer. I have wrote a book about the UK's wartime leader Winston Churchill, and he sees himself as made of the same stuff. So when Russia invaded Ukraine in April 2022 he saw his fatigues-clad and embattled President Zelensky as a heroic figure and instinctively took his side from him. Johnson visited war-torn kyiv only weeks after the invasion. Hey began supplying anti-tank weapons to Ukraine a month before Russia launched its attack, and for as long as he was Prime Minister he continued to supply weapons to Ukraine, leading President Zelensky to describes Johnson as his “true friend.” Since leaving office, Johnson has done his best to persuade conservative politicians and influencers in the US that it is vital that they back Ukraine in its struggle against Russia, and one of the politicians he met and tried to swing round was Donald Trump. He has, it seems, been extremely well remunerated for all this, but he is likely to be well remunerated for whatever he chooses to talk about at his much-in-demand speaking engagements.
Trump described Putin's invasion of Ukraine as “genius” and “savvy” , and has boasted that he – Trump – would resolve the Ukraine war in 24 hours, with the implication that Ukraine would have to cede to Russia the territory that Russia currently holds. Trump's indifference to the fate of Ukraine, and his admiration for Putin, goes hand in hand with a disdain of NATO. In 2020 Trump reportedly told EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen that NATO was dead and that the US would never come to Europe's aid if it was attacked. Trump first took a liking to Johnson because he saw in Johnson a British version of USA Phone Number himself, and he said as much In July 2019 when Johnson won the leadership of the Tory Party and became the UK's Prime Minister. Trump saw himself as challenging the elites in Washington, and Johnson seemed to Trump to be fighting much the same battle with the elites in Brussels. Left-wing critics of Johnson have liked him to trump, and to European populists like Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Johnson certainly shares with Trump an impatience with detail, and an aversion to politics beyond the length of a soundbite.
And in the run-up to the 2016 Brexit referendum he was accused of being a Putin-apologist when he blamed the EU for Russia's attacks on Ukraine in 2014. But if Johnson is a populist, he is not one in the mold of Viktor Orban or Donald Trump, and he is no Putin-apologist, let alone admirer. I have wrote a book about the UK's wartime leader Winston Churchill, and he sees himself as made of the same stuff. So when Russia invaded Ukraine in April 2022 he saw his fatigues-clad and embattled President Zelensky as a heroic figure and instinctively took his side from him. Johnson visited war-torn kyiv only weeks after the invasion. Hey began supplying anti-tank weapons to Ukraine a month before Russia launched its attack, and for as long as he was Prime Minister he continued to supply weapons to Ukraine, leading President Zelensky to describes Johnson as his “true friend.” Since leaving office, Johnson has done his best to persuade conservative politicians and influencers in the US that it is vital that they back Ukraine in its struggle against Russia, and one of the politicians he met and tried to swing round was Donald Trump. He has, it seems, been extremely well remunerated for all this, but he is likely to be well remunerated for whatever he chooses to talk about at his much-in-demand speaking engagements.