Twenty years ago, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair dragged Britain into the Iraq war behind the US, a move that sparked massive protests in his home country.
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Today, he rejects any comparison between Iraq, a war waged without a UN mandate, and Ukraine, although Russian President Vladimir Putin has used it as a “excuse“.
Remove the “dictator from power”
“There is no reasonable justification for invading an independent and sovereign country with a democratic president (who posed) any problem for anyone.“and did not violate”no international obligationsTony Blair explains in an interview with AFP and European press agencies Ansa, DPA and Efe. “If he did not use this excuse (by Iraq), he would use another one.The 69-year-old former leader of the Labor Party says about Vladimir Putin.
Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein instigated two regional wars, flouted numerous UN resolutions and launched a chemical attack on his own people, Tony Blair recalls. “At least we can admit that we removed a dictator (in Iraq) in an attempt to establish democracy.– he defends from the offices of his Global Change Institute in central London. “Of course, we can discuss all the consequencesAbout the war in Iraq, he admits.
But “we should never forget what Vladimir Putin did in the Middle East, in Syria. (…) His intervention in the Middle East served to preserve the ruler’s power and abandon democracy. So we should treat all this propaganda with the little respect it deserves.adds Tony Blair.
Vladimir Putin has now been arrested by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes.illegal deportationof Ukrainian children after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a decision which according to Moscow has no legal value.
Source: Le Figaro
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