Ex-prime minister Boris Johnson is urging the West to escalate its military support of Ukraine with tanks, warplanes, and other materiel, confidently asserting that a nuclear war will not happen at the World Economic Forum summit in Davos, Switzerland.
Johnson made the comments at a Ukrainian Breakfast event, also attended by President Volodymyr Zelensky, albeit remotely, with the Briton saying he was “lost in admiration” for the Ukrainian leader.
“How can you escalate against a guy who is doing all-out war against a civilian population?” he said of his imagined critics, as if Russian forces could not significantly up the ante against Ukraine by, for example, deploying relatively low-yield, tactical nuclear weapons near civilian areas. The Tory said the number one reason Putin would not resort to such methods was that it would paralyse the Russian economy, with the Chinese and
, for example, predicted to withdraw “the benefit of the doubt” from him and cease trading, and “terrify” his own citizens in Russia.in Davos’s “Ukraine House”, Johnson received a small medal and honorary citizenship of Kyiv from the Ukrainian capital’s mayor, former heavyweight boxing champion Vitali Klitschko, and urged the West to send tanks and warplanes to Ukraine.
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