Former UK PM Boris Johnson speaks of betrayal, calling US "peace plan" military castration of Ukraine

Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has sharply criticised the "peace plan" for Ukraine put forward by the United States.

Source: Johnson in an article for the Daily Mail, as reported by European Pravda

Details: Johnson imagines that this Saturday, Putin "cannot help smirking" at the incompetence of his opponents and the staggering weakness of the West.

"You have lost more than a million soldiers, dead and injured, in your efforts to subdue Ukraine. You still haven't succeeded in gaining more than 20 per cent of the country. Your economy is reeling. And yet now they are talking about some new 28-point plan to end the war – and it could be entirely written by the Kremlin!" Johnson noted.

"The so-called peace plan calls for the military castration of Ukraine. It demands a Russian veto over Ukrainian membership of NATO, and Russian control over the admission of any foreign troops on Ukrainian soil," he said.

According to Johnson, the plan represents a complete betrayal of Ukraine, which would remain under constant threat of a third invasion.

"You can see that this is a total capitulation by the so-called friends of Ukraine. It's Munich," Johnson said.

He also claimed that Western opposition to the plan appears muted.

"The Ukrainians have been handed an ultimatum to begin talks on these disgraceful terms. Where are their allies? Their friends? What about the Brits, for instance, who used to be such implacable foes of Russian expansionism?" Johnson asked.

Background:

• On the night of 20-21 November, Axios published the full list of points of the new US "peace plan" presented to Ukraine for review, as well as a draft supplementary document setting out security guarantees.
• On Friday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the Ukrainian people, stating that Ukraine now faces a difficult choice and risks losing either its dignity or its key partner.

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