So let’s get it straight. What Farage actually said. Which was that Russia was provoked into attacking Ukraine by the ever eastward extensions of the EU and of NATO. You can disagree with that. But only if you’re a moron, an imbecile, any politician trying to score pathetic moral high ground points or anyone else who either knows nothing or chooses to re-write Nige’s words so it seems they know nothing.

This alleged provocation was not intentional and yet was totally predictable and understandable. Russia sees NATO as ‘the enemy’ and ‘Europe’ too. So to see all his neighbours gradually inducted into the EU is bad enough if you’re not a paranoid megalomaniac. But when they join NATO, the ‘armed forces bit’ of the West, he simply HAS to react. With the blessing of his people who eat up his rhetoric about the evil West who aim to take over the world. Their world.

Farage didn’t justify the war against Ukraine. He just put it in that context. As he did 10 years ago.

I don’t even like Farage, so why am I defending him?

Because I sadly listened to the radio on the way back from the dump (long story) and heard every MP, every spokesperson for every political party, spout the same shit. Which is that ‘Farage supports Putin in his war on Ukraine’. Where’d they get that? Some took it even further and called him ‘a threat to national security’. Really? One even stopped just a whisker short of accusing him of being complicit in the recent Russian hacking of the NHS computers. FFS.

It’s all about timing. Hamas attacked Israel on October 7th because Israel was on the brink of signing an accord with Saudi Arabia. Iran’s greatest enemy (other than Israel). So it sought to destabilise so that yet another Arab nation wouldn’t side with Israel or even be on good trade and political terms with them.

Similarly, Ukraine applied to join NATO, and that was Putin’s red line. Well, Russia’s all a bit red, this is a different red though. So he invaded. He’d reached the point where American rockets and missiles could be sited within a mile of his border.

How can every politician in our country misread something so wrongly? Other than to try and gain some weak advantage from it. Turn Nigel into a straw man and set him alight for their own gain. Unfortunately for them, Farage is just cleverer than all of them and won’t be bothered in the least.

Honestly, it’s enough to make you vote ‘Reform’. Almost.

Happy Saturday

A xxxx