The West is essentially using Ukraine as a tool to fight Russia, former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has admitted, insisting that it should not hold back on arming Kiev.
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph on Thursday, Johnson chastised the West for what he sees as a lack of resolve in supporting Ukraine, stressing that it should set aside concerns about potential escalation.
“The problem has not been escalation; the problem has been the failure to escalate fast enough. It has been the dithering, the delay, and the nickel-and-diming of the [support] measures,” he said, lamenting the gridlock in the US Congress in late 2023 and early 2024 which prevented aid from flowing to Kiev. “That was a nightmare for Ukraine,” he added.