Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, criticized Tucker Carlson for the interview given to him by Vladimir Putin, broadcast on Thursday, calling the American communicator a “traitor to journalism.”
“All over the world people are watching that ridiculous interview with Vladimir Putin by Tucker Carlson,” says the politician in a video promoting his column in the Daily Mail. “In their slavish happiness at having a ‘scoop,’ they gape and with guffaws, he betrayed his viewers and listeners around the world,” says Johnson, who accuses Carlson of “not asking tough questions” of Putin.
The former British president assured that he prays “that the people of the United States are able to see beyond the infamous farce that was last night’s interview.” “To all those Republicans who are currently blocking aid to Ukraine I say: for the love of God, remember who you are,” he added.
Johnson’s role in the Ukrainian conflict
During his meeting with Carlson, the Russian leader recalled that it was Johnson who pushed Ukraine to continue hostilities instead of negotiating. In this regard, he stated that David Arajamia, one of the Ukrainian negotiators who participated in the peace talks with Russia in the spring of 2022 and who “put his preliminary signature” on the document that Russia and Ukraine negotiated, “later publicly declared to the world entire: ‘We were willing to sign that document, but Boris Johnson, then Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, arrived and dissuaded us from it and said that it was better to fight Russia. They will give us everything so that we can recover what was lost during the confrontations with Russia. And we agreed to this proposal,’” Putin quoted Arajamia as saying.
Along these lines, Putin stated that he finds it “absurd” and “very sad” the fact that the Ukrainian authorities “have submitted to the demands or persuasions” of Boris Johnson. “Because, as Arajamia said, ‘a year and a half ago we could have stopped these hostilities, stopped this war, but the British persuaded us and we rejected it.’ Where is Mr. Johnson now? And the war continues,” Putin said.
“Why did he do it?” Tucker asked. «Who the hell knows, I don’t understand it either. There was a general attitude. For some reason, everyone was under the illusion that Russia could be defeated on the battlefield; It would be out of arrogance, or sincerely, but not with great intelligence,” Putin concluded. With RT
