JP Lindsley
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University of Notre Dame
Under Fire News
Ukraine
Dec. 13, 2025
Boris Johnson, former UK PM, is speaking with fire here.
At the annual Holberg Debate hosted by the Kingdom of Norway in seaside Bergen, Boris Johnson exposed Russia’s ceasefire talk as phony and Europe as weak-willed.
And :
At the annual Holberg Debate hosted by the Kingdom of Norway in seaside Bergen, Boris Johnson spoke like no current Western leaders: He decisively and clearlyexplained that Russia’s war on Ukraine is NOT about Natoāand he said that Ukraine must win. He criticized those Western leaders who gather to cry and talk rather than to do. In 2022, Johnson, as the UK’s PM, was the first major global leader to visit Ukraine and to send real support. He is still widely loved throughout Ukraine and his books and cookies bearing his face can be found even in gas stations in Donbas.
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The global elite who made Ukraine their “fashion” in 2022 did a helluva lot of damage: They turned many common people, facing their own struggles and deeply skeptical of Hollywood and the political class, against Ukraine.
And now in these dark hours, though Ukraine has held on and created chances to win, the “Ukraine flag in bio” Hollywood people are largely silent. There are no mass protests in the streets, like there were for Gaza, even though Ukraine’s resistance vs. Russia is 100 percent clear cut unlike Israel-Gaza.
Nope. Just a wimper. The Eurocrats still talk, but that’s all they do in the main.
And the leaders of the common people are now pushing against Ukraine.
Some real passion from Boris.
Preparing for a comeback?
I hope so.
I donāt think itās an exaggeration to say that Kyiv might have been swamped with vermin were it not for the 2000 NLAWS he sent.
In Jan 2022.
Ahead of anything anyone else sent.
What would Boris do different from Starmer, in your opinion, Scradge?
Good question.
Sir Kier has impressed me with his warmth to Zel. Especially as heās not normally a guy who ādoesā warmth.
Plus he has a DefSec; John Healey, who is committed to Ukraine and increasing defence spending.
There is also a new Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Armed Forces : a tough Scot named Colonel Al Carns, who is already being tipped to be Starmerās replacement.
He is strongly pro-Ukraine too.
Under Labour, support for Ukraine is actually slightly increasing. Only Germany gives more than us.
So far so good.
BUT : Sir Kier is not passionate like Boris. Heās a lawyer and with a huge commitment to tax and spend overriding defence.
Boris, like Starmer, wonāt send troops or planes without the mythical āpeace deal.ā
However, he would definitely trim the welfare spend and put more into Ukraine.
He is also more critical than Starmer of the EU countries that still buy shit from ruZZia.
If Boris was to return to power; possibly as Foreign Secretary under Kemi as PM, Iād expect him to look to
strengthen the capabilities of the non-U.S. Anglophone countries.
My opinion :
The time has now come for a CANZUK alliance. (Canada, Australia, NewZealand and the United Kingdom). This would be a Confederation like the EU. I would add Norway and Ukraine to that and fully integrate their militaries.
Thanks for the rundown, Scradge.
If Boris does not run again, or get elected again, at least Britain doesn’t have a total loser as PM right now.
There are a number of imponderables right now : The Putler-Pali wing of the Labour Party is breaking off to form a new party led by JeremIRA CorbLenin and an izlamonazi named Sultana (no Iām not making it up).
In the next election, which may come sooner than expected, we could see Labour clinging to power in a loony tunes coalition with the LibDems, the Greens and the SNP.
Or, Reform could drop their anti-Ukraine/pro-putler positions and form a coalition with the Tories. You might have Badenoch as PM, Boris as Foreign Sec and Farage as Home Sec.
A senior Reform figure doing a ten year stretch for being a paid putinaZi propagandist might have concentrated minds and forced a rethink. That, plus the realization that Farage canāt get power without a pact with the Tories.
Thanks again for the explanation, Scradge.
I don’t like our two party system, but it’s so much easier than the multiple ones found in Europe. It makes it hard to figure out which is better.