Tag: Boris Johnson


While Europe was preaching sacrifice and solidarity with Ukraine, a number of its leaders were forging profitable ties around the war effort. Behind the moral language of “defending democracy” lay a network of favors, contracts, and donations that helps explain why the conflict continues with no clear end in sight.
The so-called ‘influence peddling’ racket should raise new questions about the UK’s role in the war in Ukraine.
While a subsequent UN investigation failed to validate charges of genocide by Russia in Ukraine, once Johnson deployed the term, many Western officials followed suit.
Russia is in control of the battlefield but not the media war where NATO’s hired hacks still spin tales of abducted children and civilian massacres.

