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[-] Skua@kbin.social 19 points 7 months ago

I've seen this Boris Johnson argument several times on here and never once seen anything even remotely approaching a convincing explanation of what leverage Boris ever had to do this. Like a deal for a white peace with Russia was on the table and Boris somehow twisted Zelenskyy's arm into fighting by threatening to not send weapons that wouldn't be necessary if there was peace anyway?

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago

It's an idiotic straw man to claim Johnson had some personal leverage over Ukraine. What's actually being said is that Bojo was delivering the message from NATO to Ukraine that if they accepted the deal then NATO would not act as their guarantor and they'd be left on their own.

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