© Daniel LEAL/AFPFile photo: Dominic Cummings, special adviser to the British PM Boris Johnson, September 3, 2019.
The longtime Tory political strategist led the Vote Leave campaign for Brexit and was one of the key aides to then-PM Boris Johnson until resigning in November 2020.
"We should have never got into the whole stupid situation," Cummings told the outlet I News in an interview published on Wednesday, commenting on London's full-throated support for Kiev. He also described Ukraine as a "corrupt s**thole that doesn't matter at all."
"This is not a replay of 1940 with the Potemkin [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky as the Churchillian underdog," he added. "This whole Ukrainian corrupt mafia state has basically conned us all and we're all going to get f**ked as a consequence."
Comment: Ukraine was doing the bidding of the US and its allies, it's naïve to think Ukraine is behind it all.
Western sanctions have been "more of a disaster" for the EU than for Russia, driving up the cost of living while pushing Moscow and Beijing closer together, according to Cummings. All the West managed to do is get into a war of attrition with Russia, "who we pushed into an alliance with the world's biggest manufacturing power."
Cummings also addressed the argument that Russian President Vladimir Putin needed to be "taught a lesson" about invading neighbors.
"The lesson we've taught Putin is that we're a bunch of total f**king jokers," he said. "I mean, Putin already knew that before the war. But this has emphasized it and broadcast it to the entire world, what a bunch of clowns we are," he added.
Between the sanctions regime and the US trying to seize frozen Russian assets, the West is encouraging the emergence of alternative global financial systems, he explained.
Cummings slammed Johnson - with whom he is no longer on speaking terms - for using the Ukraine conflict for "acting out his Churchillian fantasies," as well as the Parliament, which "swallowed all of his total bulls**t on Ukraine and actually took it seriously."
Johnson was the key figure in getting Kiev to reject a peace deal with Russia in April 2022, according to the top Ukrainian negotiator, as well as Ukrainian media.
The former PM denied his role in scuttling the talks, calling the account "total nonsense and Russian propaganda." However, he confirmed that he told Zelensky the UK would back him "a thousand percent" and that any deal with Moscow would be bad.
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There is no human force capable of preventing Ukraine, detached from Russia and transformed into an independent state, from becoming a gathering place of swindlers from all over the world, who today are very cramped in their own countries, capitalists and capital seekers, industry organizers, technicians and merchants, speculators and schemers, cutthroats and organizers of all kinds of prostitution: Germans, French, Belgians, Italians, English and Americans would rush to the aid of places these or nearby Russians, Poles, Armenians, Greeks, and finally the most numerous and important Jews of all. The entire League of Nations would gather here...
All these elements, with the participation of smarter, more proficient in business Ukrainians, would create a leading layer, the country's elite. However, it would be a special elite, because probably no country could boast such a rich collection of international scumbags.
Ukraine would become an ulcer on Europe's body; and people dreaming of creating a cultured, healthy and strong Ukrainian nation, maturing in their own state, would find that instead of their own state, they have an international enterprise, and instead of healthy development, a rapid progress of decay and rottenness.
The Ukrainian question has various advocates, both in Ukraine itself and abroad. Especially among the latter there are many who know very well what they are going for. There are, however, those who see the solution of this issue by separating Ukraine from Russia in a very idyllic way. The naive ones would do best to keep their hands off her.
as if they were a bunch of school boys that got their lunch money swindled from them during a fast passed marble game!