From Boris’s official site.

Suppose you are Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and you are having a quiet Saturday in the Kremlin, or maybe at one of the huge palaces that you have looted from the Russian people – down on the Black Sea.

You are lounging on your white leatherette sofa and watching the TV news, and you can’t help smirking at the incompetence of your adversaries, the staggering weakness of the West.

You have lost more than a million soldiers, dead and injured, in your efforts to subdue Ukraine. You still haven’t succeeded in gaining more than 20 per cent of the country. Your economy is reeling. And yet now they are talking about some new 28-point plan to end the war – and it could be entirely written by the Kremlin!

MILITARY CASTRATION OF UKRAINE 

It’s hilarious. The so-called peace plan calls for the military castration of Ukraine. It demands a Russian veto over Ukrainian membership of Nato, and Russian control over the admission of any foreign troops on Ukrainian soil.

The document suggests that the Ukrainians should not only abandon any attempt to reclaim the Crimea or the Donbas, but hand over huge chunks of territory, including about 250,000 Ukrainian civilians, that the Russians do not even control.

Of course, you knew that your negotiators would try something like this. But you never believed that anyone would take it seriously.

COMPLETE BETRAYAL 

You can’t believe that President Trump would endorse this plan either, because it is a complete betrayal of Ukraine.

If they were so mad in Kyiv as to accept these terms, you know they would become the cat’s paw of Moscow, perpetually exposed to a third invasion. You can see that this is a total capitulation by the so-called friends of Ukraine. It’s Munich.

And yet, as you watch the global TV news, you notice that the protests from other Western countries have been oddly muffled.

WHERE ARE UKRAINE’S ALLIES?

The Ukrainians have been handed an ultimatum to begin talks on these disgraceful terms. Where are their allies? Their friends? What about the Brits, for instance, who used to be such implacable foes of Russian expansionism?

The Brits were always the ones who tried to lead Europe against Putin’s aggression. They were the ones who used to marshal support and weapons for Ukraine. So why – you wonder idly – are we not hearing from London? What’s got into the British, these days?

Get me the zapiska, you say to your staff. Right away Vladimir Vladimirovich, says the liveried huissier and scoots off to get the latest despatch from the Russian Ambassador in London.

THE UK HAS LOST ITS WAY 

So you read the news from the UK and a thin smile crosses your Gollum-like lips. It is the story of a country that seems to have lost its way.

Britain seems to be suffering from a mixture of an identity crisis and a slow-motion economic car crash. 

They have unemployment rising, and interest rates and inflation way too high – and someone called Reeves keeps having to threaten ever higher taxes because they have lost control of public spending.

And they are making matters worse with ever more job-destroying legislation on workers’ rights so that British business and investors are becoming exhausted.

They have hundreds of thousands of people now actually fleeing the country for the first time since the 1970s. The place seems to be dominated by wokery. Their citizens get arrested for a politically incorrect tweet.

THE PATHETIC BRITISH GOVERNMENT 

At a time when you – Putin – are perfectly happy to invade other countries, and to rebuild the Russian empire, the British have become so pathetic that they are actually giving away their own sovereign territory, like the Chagos Islands, and cravenly paying Mauritius billions to take it off them. They are weak!

And what is in the news in Britain? What are they talking about? You rub your eyes in sheer amazement. Covid!