Nigel Farage has managed to find a headline from 2016 in the so-called 'newspaper' i that says: Boris Blames EU for War in Ukraine.

As part of his Brexiteering, Boris was called a 'Putin apologist' for claiming that EU expansion plans contributed to the war in Ukraine.

Something that Nigel Farage is pointing out with some satisfaction. Kudos to his researchers.

But actually all this Farage stuff about NATO expansion provoking the Russians is far from new and well understood in Ukraine itself.

It was predicted over 25 years ago - well before Putin - in Anna Reid's book Borderland (1997).

Ukranians fear that the catalyst for renewed Russian aggression will be the eastward expansion of NATO. (see p.235)

Undoubtedly most of the journos taking aim at Farage have never read this book or probably any history of Ukraine.

Oh what tangled webs we weave...

This is the same 'flip-flop' Boris who visited the Ukraine, on behalf of the UK's MIC, to derail the peace talks being held in Turkey, way back in 2022. Probably the best example of arms salesmanship by a PM since Margaret Thatcher's £42 billion mega-deal with the Saudis in the mid 80's.

No wonder his memoirs are titled 'Unleashed'. According to Amazon's blurb, the book is:

Shattering the mould of the modern prime ministerial memoir and written in his inimitable style, Boris Johnson’s Unleashed is an honest, unrestrained and deeply revealing book by the politician who has dominated our times.

Underlying everything in the book is Johnson’s belief that the UK is an extraordinary country and should have an exceptional future.

As opposed to Boris being unleashed on Britain rather like a pandemic from a bio lab from which 'vaccine' producers made windfall fortunes.