The British politician in 2014 named Putin as the world leader he “admires the most.”
The policies of the West caused Russia to attack Ukraine. The leader of the British Reform party in the United Kingdom, the Brexit ideologue Nigel Farage, said this on Friday, June 21, writes the BBC.
In particular, journalists asked him to comment on his words in February 2022, when he called Russia’s aggression “a consequence of the expansion of the European Union and NATO.”
The politician said that his opinion has not changed and noted that since the 1990s he has argued that the continued expansion of alliances in the east gives Putin “a reason to tell the Russian people that they are coming again for us and start a war.”
“We provoked this war, but, of course, it’s Putin’s fault,” he added.
British Home Secretary James Claverley has responded to these words. He said Farage was “repeating Putin’s bad excuses for the brutal invasion of Ukraine.”
Note that Trump also found Putin to blame for his attack on Ukraine. According to him, the responsibility for the war lies with his political rival, Joe Biden.
Regardless of how the war in Ukraine ends, Europe and the United States will face a stronger, angrier Russia for years to come. This is what the commander of NATO forces in Europe, Army General Christopher Cavoli, said.
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Source: korrespondent
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