Sept 21, 2024
Peter Hitchens has commented on Boris’s latest Spectator article, which can be seen here :
The following is extracted from Hitchens’ MOS column :
Boris’s border bungle will please Putin
Whoops! Our former premier ‘Boris’ Johnson has unintentionally urged Nato to recognise Vladimir Putin’s conquest of large chunks of Ukraine.
The blond genius suggests Ukraine could be given instant Nato membership for all the land Kiev still controls (but not the land it doesn’t). This would involve ‘reaffirming the absolute right of the Ukrainians to the whole of their 1991 nation’, without actually getting it back. He says: ‘We could protect most of Ukraine, while simultaneously supporting the Ukrainian right to recapture the rest.’ Because Mr Johnson suffers from the propaganda fantasy that Moscow seeks to reconquer most of Europe, he doesn’t realise that such an arrangement might well be very attractive to the tyrant Putin, with its worthless paper promise of reunification as a figleaf.
Mr Johnson really needs to understand this conflict better, and I once again offer to discuss it with him in proper adversarial style, in person or in print.
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I managed to get a comment in. I think the mods zapped it, but not before it got some words of thanks from British and Ukrainian posters:
Boris says:
“We could protect most of Ukraine, while simultaneously supporting the Ukrainian right to recapture the rest.”
Peter Hitchens sneers at Boris, who has taken a principled stance in terms of Ukraine’s right to live as a sovereign country within its own legal borders.
For the best part of two decades, Hitchens has denied Ukraine’s right to exist; describing it in 2010 as “a fanciful country.” He doesn’t even bother to hide his hatred for Ukraine; an independent unitary state that is suffering from ruZZian genocide for the third time in a century.
Just the other day, putin’s army of war criminals attacked a nursing home for the elderly. On July 8th these same creatures attacked a children’s hospital in Kyiv. On the same day, 36 civilians were killed in multiple attacks throughout Ukraine.
It is Hitchens who is morally bankrupt, not Boris.
The sadness is that Biden, Kamala and Trump are unwilling to kick RuSSia’s ass and that Ukraine may not survive until a hardliner like myself and most of you is in charge. In Dixie being called a coward is the ultimate insult, in D.C. being a coward seems to be required by law.