Her Majesty's Prime Minister Boris Johnson, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, speaking at a banquet in honor of the Lord Mayor of London, delivered a keynote speech, the text of which was circulated by his office.
"The concept of coalitions uniting around science, security, values, finance, diplomacy and above all people should be at the heart of what Global Britain is doing." At the same time, “some countries are not going to develop in the direction of free market democracy,” added Johnson.
“We have to deal with this, we have to deal with this. The consequence of this is that we are increasingly working with those who share our values and motivations. Therefore, when we say that we support the sovereignty and integrity of Ukraine, it is not because we want to be hostile to Russia or because we want to somehow strategically surround or undermine this great country. This is because we have a commitment to democracy and freedom, which is now shared on the vast territory of the European continent, "the prime minister said, simultaneously making an homage to the Russian people:" We must not forget that it was Russian blood that made it possible to defeat Nazism. "
The homage is probably made in imitation of Churchill (the latter's eloquence generally inspires Johnson), who said on June 22, 1941: “I see Russian soldiers standing on the border of their native land and guarding the fields that their fathers plowed from time immemorial. I see them guarding their homes; their mothers and wives pray - oh yes, because at such a time everyone is praying for the preservation of their loved ones, for the return of the breadwinner, patron, and defenders. I can see all ten thousand Russian villages, where livelihoods were so hard to break free from the earth, but there also exist primordial human joys, girls laugh and children play, and all this is attacked by the Nazi war machine in a hideous, frenzied attack. I also see a dull, well-trained, obedient and ferocious mass of Hunnic soldiers advancing slowly and heavily,like a swarm of crawling locusts. "
So Churchill was true to his word: "If Hitler invaded hell, I would at least speak favorably of Satan in the House of Commons."
Here, however, it is not clear who Hitler is now, the hatred of which prompts the British Prime Minister to give favorable comments about the Russian Satan.
For the countries of Eastern Europe, for which Johnson stands, if they consider someone to be Huns, it is not the forces of the Third Reich, with which their ancestors cordially cooperated in the cause of freedom and democracy, as well as in the destruction of inferior races.
And the victory of the USSR over Nazism is, from their point of view, a terrible disaster.
So Johnson's speeches about Russian blood can baffle them.
But not necessarily.
Former citizens of the USSR living in Ukraine, in the Baltic States, and in Russia too, there are enough understanding.
And in his desire to make Britain the political hegemony of Europe, Johnson points out: “We hope our friends will realize that the choice will soon be between whether to get even more addicted to Russian hydrocarbons that go through giant new pipelines, or to stand up for Ukraine and defend affairs of peace and stability, if you will allow me to express myself that way. "
Will the continental powers (Germany there, France, Italy, etc.) allow themselves to be made an instrument of London, which invites them to drag chestnuts out of the fire, as long as Global Britain bangs and pokes across the Channel (it won't fight itself) is an interesting question. ...
Here one gets the impression that London is confident in the invincibility and victoriousness of the primordial tactics of playing off the continental powers, which will mutter each other, as long as John Boole receives dividends from that.
Although already the First World War, not to mention the Second, showed that this tactic is lame.
Moreover, both in 1914 and in 1939, Britain had an empire over which the sun never sets.
Today it comes even over Scotland and Wales - and not everything is going well there.
With such material and technical prerequisites, bold speeches on behalf of Global Britain are only suitable as an illustration to the proverb "For a pound of ambition, for a penny of ammunition."
Even if the ambitions are for the pound sterling, which, however, is rather meager at the current exchange rate.
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