London: Nigel Farage, leader of Britain's right-wing party 'Reform UK', said in clear words that the West, the European Union and NATO provoked Putin to attack Ukraine. This criticism made by him on Friday evening has created a vortex of controversy. Along with this, he predicted that even though his party has won only one seat right now, it will get millions of votes in the elections to be held on July 4.
In fact, when Russia attacked Ukraine in February 2022, he said on a social media post that I have been saying since 2014 that there is going to be a war in Ukraine. I found it natural that the EU and NATO were giving him (Putin) a reason to invade Ukraine. In an interview to BPC, he (Putin) said that he is coming to us again and wants to fight a war.
Faraz further said that we started that war. However, he (Putin) made a mistake by going to war. But what we did became an excuse for him.
Many people have launched a counter-attack on Farage's statements. UK PM Shunack said that Farage is completely wrong and he is playing into Putin's hands. While making these statements during his election campaign, he accused Farage of adopting a policy of appeasement. As written by the leading Ukrainian daily Guardian.
Schunke was so serious that he even deployed nerve agents (spies) on the streets of Britain, who were suspected of having links with North Korea.
Britain's Conservative Party leader and former UK Defense Minister Ben Wallace also supported the nerve agent theory. And said that I think Faraz's statements are like someone discussing politics while drinking alcohol.
On the other hand, some neutral observers say that Faraz's statements are not completely baseless. In fact, the culture and social structure of Eastern Europe and Russia are quite different from the culture and social structure of Western Europe. America is an extension of Western Europe. If foreigners invade Eastern Europe and Ukraine, which is south of Russia, Russia cannot push them into its soft belly. There is also truth in Faraz's allegation that the war in Ukraine is essentially an eastward expansion of the European Union and NATO.