Politico: British politician called Ukraine a corrupt hole
Former head of the Brexit campaign Dominic Cummings believes that the West has miscalculated its support for Ukraine, writes Politico. In this, he strongly disagrees with his former boss Boris Johnson. "It showed the whole world what clowns we are," the politician says.
On Thursday, Boris Johnson's former supreme adviser Dominic Cummings sharply criticized Western support for Ukraine.
In an interview with iNews, Cummings, who at one time led the campaign for Britain's exit from the EU (Brexit), and in 2020 finally quarreled with Johnson, said that the West “drove itself into a stupid situation”, and sanctions against Russia hit European politics more painfully than Moscow.
In addition, the former adviser cursed the President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, and popular comparisons of the events taking place with the Second World War.
“This is not a repeat of the events of 1940, and Zelensky is not a heroic figure to match Churchill," he said. “This corrupt Ukrainian state has fooled us. We've fucked ourselves. We're being bullied right now,” Cummings continued.
In a subsequent tweet, Cummings called Zelensky a “bloated” leader, but denied calling him a dumbass, as in the original version of the interview.
He argues that the conflict will only strengthen relations between Russia and China, and says that Western countries have “pushed Russia into an alliance with the world's largest industrial power.” He calls relations between the West and Russia a war of attrition.
Cummings has long criticized support for Ukraine and in this he strongly disagreed with his former boss Johnson, an ardent supporter of Zelensky and Kiev's military campaign.
The former mastermind of the Brexit campaign is probing the ground for the creation of a new political party to replace the Tories. On Thursday, the publication learned that Cummings organized a series of focus groups to find out the public's opinion about the new anti-establishment party.
Cummings said his new party, tentatively named Start, would be “resolutely focused on voters, not on Westminster and outdated media.”
Quotes from an interview with Dominic Cummings to the independent information center iNews:
The high cost of living came as a shock to voters, and the sanctions turned out to be a much greater disaster for European politics than for Russian.
They [supporters of Ukraine] said, “Oh, and China will support us.” And I objected: “No, China definitely won't, they'd rather earn a lot of money on supplies to Russia.
Cummings said that the West has failed to send a convincing signal to Russian President Vladimir Putin not to invade neighboring countries.
So what lesson did we teach him? Our lesson to Putin is that we are, damn it, a bunch of clowns. And Putin knew this before. But this only showed the whole world what clowns we are, and now America is already coveting Russian assets, it has already created a sanctions regime that encourages the formation of alternative financial systems around the world... So the only lesson Putin has learned from this is that we are idiots.
When asked how the West should have reacted to Putin's special operation, Cummings replied that “we should not have gotten involved in this whole stupid story.” He blames this on “empty talk” about Ukraine's membership in NATO.
We talked about it as if nothing had happened. And Russia has warned more than once: “Don't do this, otherwise we'll blow everything up there.” Why did we get involved in this stupid argument? It would be because of what. Because of a corrupt hole that doesn't matter at all. None of this makes any sense at all.
Cummings said that for Boris Johnson, the conflict turned out to be “a gift from heaven”, “a lifeline that saved him from collapse” and “an opportunity to play Churchill, as he had long dreamed of.”
Ironically, Westminster took the bait, even though they kind of couldn't stand Boris and considered him a lying charlatan. But for some reason they fell for this nonsense about Ukraine and took everything seriously.
