Farage Weasels On Ukraine

While Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and his gangsterist régime in Moscow show the world just what they’re about, and continue their invasion of Ukraine, an independent and democratic sovereign state which has not threatened them, despite the severe provocation over recent years including Russian annexation of Crimea and the actions of pro-Russian rebels in the east of the country, the scales are falling from some former fans’ eyes.

But not all: step forward Nigel “Thirsty” Farage, former Brexit Party Oberscheissenführer, who had previously told his adoring public that Putin was “the world leader I most admire”. So as Vlad The Invader tells the world that Ukraine must be “de-Nazified”, while missing the fact that President Zelensky is Jewish, and his military commits war crimes in plain sight, all Nige can manage are weasel words. And he’s convincing no-one.

Seeing Russian forces invade an independent, democratic and sovereign country, all The Great Man could muster was “Well, I was wrong. Putin has gone much further than I thought he would”. And then came the excuse note. “A consequence of EU and NATO expansion, which came to a head in 2014. It made no sense to poke the Russian bear with a stick. These are dark days for Europe”. And to that I call bullshit.

Ukraine is not a NATO member state - one has to wonder if Putin would have invaded if it had been - and nor is it part of the EU. Moreover, if something came to a head in 2014, then why did it take Vlad another eight years to invade? Nige isn’t answering any of those, but he is at CPAC, and so is gathering support from the collected US right-wing idiocy.

“It’s a very dramatic day with events in the Ukraine” he told his followers, adhering to the Bannon playbook - downgrading the target of Russia’s invasion to merely “the Ukraine”. But he had someone to back him up. “Many people here feeling that actually if Donald Trump was President, none of this would ever have happened in the first place”.

More bullshit, more weasel words. So he called on the wisdom of Ted Cruz, another of those who allowed Combover Crybaby Donald Trump to humiliate him as One Term Agent Orange smeared and hustled his way to the White House. Cruz claimed to have dined with Trump the previous evening, even though he probably couldn’t find Ukraine on the map.

But he knows how to spin a little deception. “We saw, last summer, an American President unilaterally withdraw his troops from Afghanistan” offered Farage, to which Cruz replied “I think the chances that Putin would be invading Ukraine today if Trump were still President are essentially zero … there are two reasons why Russia’s invaded … number one … was America’s disastrous, catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan”. Bullshit once more.

Here’s the Wiki explainer. “In February 2020, the Trump administration and the Taliban, without participation by the Afghan government, signed the … Doha Agreement, which provided for the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Afghanistan in return for a Taliban pledge to prevent al-Qaeda from operating in areas under Taliban control, and future talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government”. Trump sold out the Afghans.

Nigel Farage not only weasels his way out of admitting he got this call wrong, he gets a lame and dishonest Trump apologist to back him up. Nige the Great Patriot now looks like a chiselling opportunist. Why? You might wish to ask that. I couldn’t possibly comment.

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