Nigel Farage has doubled down on his claims that the West provoked Russia's invasion of Ukraine after he was slammed by rivals Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer for the comments.
  • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I have heard the “the West forced Russia to invade Ukraine” bullshit even here on Lemmy.

    A country can’t force a second country who is in opposition to them to invade a third country. That’s just not how anything works.

  • Abovethefold@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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    5 months ago

    He really seems to think this pro-Russia strategy will work well for his party at the voting booth.

    I doubt it will push his party above the 20% they are currently polling at.

  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.spaceEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Either he is the great English Everyman and the UK’s population backs Russia, or he isn’t, and hard Brexit is not the Will Of The People. Though given both major parties ruling out any softening, and the BBC platforming him enthusiastically whilst having a ban on coverage of, say, the Green Party who actually have MPs, the powers that be are leaning hard on the former. Something will have to give.