BORIS JOHNSON: Prigozhin thought he had guarantees. Prigozhin thought he had sorted it out. Look at that deal now. Look what happened to him.
There are countries on that list that don’t like being endlessly lectured about democracy and human rights. Some of them don’t want to hear a lot about the importance of equalities, and the LGBTQ agenda.
Putin sticks with his friends — which is more than you can sometimes say about us Western powers. They observed what happened to Gaddafi in Libya, for instance. After all that sucking-up by the UK — remember the deal in the desert, where Tony Blair went and sat in a tent in Tripoli — we Brits then ratted on Gaddafi, and he met a terrible end: dragged from a storm drain by a mob in Sirte, tortured and impaled.
He is happy to send Wagner group mercenaries to help suppress Islamic jihadis and other opponents — and, again, with no questions asked about the interrogation techniques they employ. Let’s face it — he is able to be useful, in a way that we, for very good reasons, are not. Putin retains his grip on power by selling oil and gas to those — like India — who will buy it, and above all by feeding the nationalism and paranoia of his people by foreign adventurism, and by trying to rebuild, by aggression, the former Soviet empire.
It must not and will not happen. Yes, the counter-offensive is going more slowly than some would like — but it is making progress; and if this war has taught us anything so far, it is never to underestimate the Ukrainians. And surely to goodness there is one glaringly obvious conclusion from the Luciferian fall of Yevgeny Prigozhin.
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