The so-called ‘influence peddling’ racket should raise new questions about the UK’s role in the war in Ukraine.
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The so-called ‘influence peddling’ racket should raise new questions about the UK’s role in the war in Ukraine. But it should also steer journalists to the real story of who’s about to make billions in Gaza
I was wrong about Boris Johnson. I have repeatedly stated on TV that he “must be on the payroll of Ukrainian President Zelensky” due to the amount of times he pops over to Kiev to meet him and talk up the important of the role of the West in fighting the war against Russia. In reality, it wasn’t Zelensky who was, at least, directly paying Boris but a dirty deal was indeed struck to grease his palm and promote the merits of the war – seconds before the Ukrainian president was ready to sign the peace deal which was agreed in Istanbul in 2022.
According to Guardian, Johnson was paid a million UK pounds to convince Zelensky to not sign the peace deal, which would have not only given Zelensky sovereignty over land which his army hadn’t taken, but would have spared the lives of an estimated 1.7m Ukrainians who are either dead or “missing”.
The Guardian lifts the lid on the payment fingering shady British businessman and arms dealer Christopher Harborne.
Harborne is a Thai-based British businessman, technology investor, and major political donor who also happens to be the largest single shareholder in QinetiQ, a UK defense firm supplying drones to Ukraine, and also dabbles in cryptocurrency outfits ventures like Digifinex (parent of Bitfinex and Tether). “His relationship with Boris Johnson, former UK Prime Minister (2019–2022), is primarily that of a financial backer and personal associate, marked by a record £1 million donation and close collaboration post-Johnson’s resignation” explains the superb Larry Johnson in his blog. “This has fuelled speculation about influence-peddling, especially regarding Ukraine policy, amid leaked Boris Files documents”, explains the former CIA advisor who has a weakness for colourful shirts.
The shocking revelation opens a Pandora’s box of other more pertinent questions now, like whether Sir Keir Starmer will direct UK’s justice department to file charges against him (even though he was no longer a PM at the time), whether other MPs were also paid from the same slush fund and perhaps more importantly, whether this will now redirect the mainstream press away from its narrative of the Alice-in-Wonderland interpretation of how everything on the Ukrainian side is squeaky clean and the Russians remain the villains.
This last point is probably more important that whether Johnson faces charges. The role of the British press in essentially pumping out a constant barrage of lies about the Ukrainian war, directed by the Ministry of Defence spin doctors, cannot be ignored. Indeed, why has it take three years for this bribe story about Johnson to even come out, albeit by the Guardian which hates him even more than the Tory press which blame him for the failure of Brexit. Probably Johnson has enemies close to him who were not payed off, or want to destroy him, so he cannot run again as a candidate as a new leader for the party. Or he was just careless.
But now, surely now, the UK press must look at the war through a different prism. Kiev is the mecca of corruption and dirty deals done in smoke-filled rooms with repugnant characters like Boris who care little about the lives of Ukrainians, despite him always talking about them like they are almost British subjects. Surely now the argument for the war against Russia must be seen for what it is and from what I established in my own investigation back in October 2023 which established that around two thirds of all UK and NATO kit being sent to Ukraine ended up being resold, either to Russian businessmen or directly shipped to the arms bizarre in Libya, the main supplier of South American drug cartels and terrorist groups in the Sahel. The whole Ukraine war is a racket and the news of Johnson’s role should trigger a debate both in parliament and Congress and within the ranks of the fourth estate as to how valid it is, given that even the numpty Dutch NATO chief recently conceded that the “front” of the war is “moving in the wrong direction”. It is not that the war is unwinnable, but more that it is not able to be financed when there is such egregious corruption on all levels and people like Zelensky and his cabal are troubled by a daily dilemma of whether to fill their own pockets or fight the Russians fairly.
But there is a bigger story here which is how the military industrial complex both in the UK and U.S. is controlling western governments beyond even our wildest imaginations, since the early 70s when the Pentagon papers revealed how all of the moral and even political argument for America staying in the Vietnam war were eclipsed by Nixon and his predecessors wanting to cling onto power while companies like Bell who made the infamous Huey helicopters made, what was in today’s terms, billions in sales. Just recently, the actor Robert Redford died. For a certain generation, he is known most for his portrayal of a Washington Post journalist who wanted to publish the incendiary report of the Vietnam War, which revealed all the chief players to have their own corrupt angle that they were working. All The President’s Men is a Hollywood film which shows the real story of what brought down Nixon but it’s also an insight into how journalists worked.
But more than that, it shows how war is a racket and there was no racket quite like the Vietnam War which couldn’t be won, but needed a decade for everyone to get rich enough first.
The military firms got hooked on record profits from WWII who together pressured the LBJ administration to create an entirely fake narrative to be cooked up in the Gulf of Tonkin – a ‘confrontation’ thought up in 1964 months before it was alleged to have even taken place. These same companies became addicted to war. New wars needed to be created by subsequent administrations which explains, Iraq, Afghanistan and the so-called ‘war on terror’ what was more recently going on in Ukraine in 2014 with the country being pushed towards a political doctrine which would have made those same companies in the U.S. very rich indeed.
But is the same thing happening in Gaza? Are we being fooled by the events of October 7th, which just had its two-year anniversary? Why were thousands of IDF soldiers moved just before away from the border? Why did the Israelis kill their own people that day and even move in more bodies to the site? Why was all video footage deleted? And what about the stories of beheaded babies? Was the entire event about creating the justification for the Gaza “war”? This more likely scenario will almost certainly involve hundreds of MPs and congress members who were also likely to have been bribed or have been on the payroll for years to lend their support to duplicitous legacy media which only serves its masters’ interests and has long since forgotten what journalism is. We’re being lied to about October 7th and the genocide in Gaza. It’s about time British journalists learnt the simplest and best rule of journalism: follow the money.
