Boris Johnson slams Tucker Carlson as 'Putin's voice recorder', draws Hitler comparison
4:43 AM EST, February 11, 2024
In his column for the Daily Mail, Boris Johnson argued that Carlson "avoided hard questions. He didn't query Putin on why he still employs the most ruthless tactics in contemporary warfare to maim and murder innocent Ukrainian civilians."
"He did not condemn him for tortures, sexual assaults, and bombing kindergartens - all of which were entirely gratuitous and unprovoked. He never once endeavored to halt Putin's stream of falsehoods. Rather, he passively admired Putin's supposed wisdom, unthinkingly imbibing a blend of misinterpreted Wikipedia entries and the Russian leader's flagrant lies - for instance, the peculiar (and menacing) insinuation that Poland somehow contributed to its partition and destruction in 1939 - as if Russia wasn't complicit in the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact," the British politician commented.
He failed to challenge the ridiculous notion that in the spring of 2022, the British government had enticed the Ukrainians to carry on fighting instead of submitting to Putin's tender mercy.
The former British Prime Minister labeled it "ridiculous" for the Russian despot to claim that he "coerced Ukrainians into combat."
"As affirmed by any member of the Ukrainian government, starting with Zelensky, nothing and nobody could deter these courageous Ukrainians from defending their country—and nothing will," asserts Johnson.
He pointed out that throughout the two-year war, Putin "has categorically undermined his argument." "Through his reckless and criminal ferocity, he demonstrated his absolute misjudgment. He disclosed that Ukraine isn't just a sizable country - his irrational errors have inflamed a sense of patriotism that is fiercer and more everlasting than anywhere else."
"He lies about his future intentions like Hitler"
He circled back to Carlson, who "omitted to state this" and instead facilitated the dictator "to dedicate half an hour expounding on Ukraine's supposed historical non-existence."
"The Russian leader chose to invade a sovereign and independent European nation—determined by no other rationale than the audacious desire to suppress that nation and reconstruct the Soviet Union. Like Hitler, he deceives about his future intentions," Johnson avers.
The former prime minister directly addressed Tucker Carlson: "You have the opportunity to corroborate to the world that an endeavor to modify borders by coercion would lead to disaster since the most significant deceit of all—and the one Putin most aspired to unveil in his interview—is that the Russian leader is certain of victory. He is no more invulnerable than Adolf Hitler; indeed, he is destined to fail."
