Boris Johnson

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022 · 1964

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What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Boris Johnson almost only in connection with the war in Ukraine. From one session to another, he returns to the same episode: the British Prime Minister's trip to Kyiv in spring 2022, which in his view was meant to halt the peace negotiations under way with Russia. He presents him as sent by the Americans1, and more precisely as "commissioned by the Pentagon" to prevent the treaty from being signed2. In 2024, he says conditionally that Johnson reportedly talked Zelensky out of signing3. In 2026, he is more assertive: Johnson allegedly threatened to cut off Zelensky's funding if he signed, and Pagani calls him "the other blond bimbo"4. As early as January 2022, before the invasion, he already describes him as a leader threatened by his own Parliament who uses the Ukrainian crisis to shift the blame5. Johnson thus serves him as an example of war being used for domestic political ends and of Europe falling in line with Washington.

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Who is this?

Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (born 19 June 1964) is a British politician and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2019 to 2022. He was previously Foreign Secretary from 2016 to 2018 and Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Henley from 2001 to 2008 and for Uxbridge and South Ruislip from 2015 to 2023. […]

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