We're gonna go out on a limb and say it's Putin, Nige
In a political take that absolutely nobody could have ever predicted, it would seem that
Nigel Farage has blamed the EU and NATO for
Russia's invasion of
Ukraine - rather than, you know,
Vladimir Putin.
Speaking on
GB News following
Russian forces crossing the Ukraine border and entering the rebel regions of the Donbas on Tuesday, Farage said the world not only needs to "learn the lessons of 2014" (when Russia annexed the Crimea), but that it was the
EU "wanting to expand that lead directly to that revolution".
As you can see in the clips below, the former UKIP and Brexit Party leader spends nearly three minutes making President Putin's decision to, for all intents and purposes, invade a country all about the European Union - not to mention
NATO, whom he also blamed for a "huge strategic error" carried out over the course of three decades.
https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1493510611841527809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1493510611841527809%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.indy100.com%2Fpolitics%2Fnigel-farage-russia-ukraine-eu
The 57-year-old goes on to question, "why poke the Russian bear with a stick?", despite his surrounding comments suggesting that nothing the EU nor the North Atlantic Treaty did to manage relations with a "paranoid" Russia.
Farage then insists there is no possible strategic benefit or "asset" for Ukraine joining the alliance and that what
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the EU at large should do is reassure Putin their neighbours' membership will not be accepted.
Regarding Europe specifically, Putin has already
warned that it would be dragged into a military conflict should they decide to allow Ukraine to join NATO, after diplomatic discussions with French President Emmanuel Macron failed to find a resolution.
Meanwhile, more and more images of tanks and troops mobilising in the breakaway regions continue to surface online.
https://twitter.com/reuterspictures/status/1496127031892975628?s=20&t=kSNoC9jzRp_uHIVtqDsWLg
Elsewhere, Putin himself has
suggested that the Royal family want a war simply to distract attention from Prince Andrew's high profile sexual assault case.
The likes of the UK and the US have already sent troops to nearby nations such as Estonia and Poland as military detachments are poised to respond should Moscow move on the capital Kyiv and bordering Belarus. However, so far, only
have been imposed and many are criticising how punitive these measures really are:
https://twitter.com/PoliticsJOE_UK/status/1496126633593511938?s=20&t=8poIW2NT3R2Cl25Rlw2K-w
