Boris Johnson attacks Tucker Carlson over Putin interview: 'Hitler's playbook'

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Boris Johnson attacked Tucker Carlson's interview with Putin, saying it was straight out of the 'Hitler playbook'.

The American channel was the “tyrant’s lackey, the dictator’s dictaphone and a traitor to journalism,” he declared.

He accused the former host from Fox News of betrayal. "viewers and listeners around the world" for not blaming the Russian leader for "the torture, the rapes, the explosions of kindergartens" in Ukraine, "not once did he try to stem the flood of lies" in a column for Mail+.

Putin's message to America was straight out of Hitler's playbook: "Stay out of this conflict... — and soon we can all be at peace. »

The only difference was that Hitler delivered his message, in June 1940, shortly after his invasion of France, through the journals of WR Hearst and a German-American journalist called Von Wiegand, he suggested.

Rishi Sunak previously called Putin's claim that the West and NATO were responsible for the war in Ukraine "clearly ridiculous."

Mr. Johnson also attacked the allegation that the British government persuaded the Ukrainians. continue to fight, rather than surrender following the spring 2022 invasion.

“Nothing and no one could have stopped these lion-hearted Ukrainians from fighting for their country – and nothing will,” he said.

He said he hoped and believed that if President Trump was elected again, he would "confound his critics... (and) give weapons to the Ukrainians."

In this photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russian President Vladimir Putin gives an interview to American talk show host Tucker Carlson at Moscow Kremlin on February 6, 2024

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And he urged Republican politicians currently blocking aid to Ukraine: “for the love of God, remember who you are. You are the heirs of Ronald Reagan, the leaders of earth's last hope. »

The two hour and seven minute interview...