Dominic Cummings: Zelenskyy’s no Churchill and Ukraine’s corrupt
Posted by Ken Waldron on May 12, 2024, 12:01 pm
Dominic Cummings: Zelenskyy’s no Churchill and Ukraine’s corrupt
Former Brexit campaign chief says the West is ‘getting f**ked’ by supporting Ukraine.
MAY 9, 2024 3:52 PM CET BY NOAH KEATE
LONDON — Boris Johnson’s former top adviser Dominic Cummings launched a sweary attack on Western support for Ukraine Thursday.
In an interview with the i newspaper, Cummings — who led Britain’s Vote Leave Brexit campaign and spectacularly fell out with Johnson in 2020 — declared that the West “should have never got into the whole stupid situation” and claimed sanctions against Russia have had a greater impact on European politics than in Moscow.
The former adviser was scathing of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and comparisons with World War II.
“This is not a replay of 1940 with Zelenskyy as the Churchillian underdog,” he said.
“This whole Ukrainian corrupt mafia state has basically conned us all and we’re all going to get f**ked as a consequence. We are getting f**ked now right?”
In a follow-up tweet, Cummings later branded Zelenskyy a “potemkin” leader — but denied he’d called him a “pumpkin” as originally quoted in the interview.
He argued that war would only strengthen the relationship between Russia and China, saying Western nations “pushed [Russia] into an alliance with the world’s biggest manufacturing power.”
Cummings has long been critical of support for Ukraine, a stance that puts him sharply at odds with his old boss Johnson, a vocal supporter of Zelenskyy and Ukraine’s war effort.
He told the paper the West had failed to send Russian President Vladimir Putin a worthwhile signal which would deter him from invading another country.
“What lesson have we taught him? The lesson we’ve taught Putin is that we’re a bunch of total f**king jokers,” Cummings asserted, saying the war had “broadcast it to the entire world what a bunch of clowns we are.”
It comes as the former Vote Leave Brexit campaign chief tests the water for a new political party to replace the Tories.
POLITICO reported on Thursday that Cummings has organized a series of focus groups to get the public’s views about a new anti-establishment outfit.
Cummings told the i his “Start Up Party” would be “ruthlessly focused on the voters not on Westminster and the old media.”
Well, Dominic Cummings is something of a loose cannon, whose eyesight cannot be trusted, but whilst i wouldn't express myself quite the same way,, I can't help thinking he's summed up the entire catastrophe of the Ukraine disaster exceptionally accurately and succinctly. I'll be interested to see if Mercouris and the Duran discuss this expressed opinion. As for a Cummings "party", well, in a FPP voting system, these really stand little chance of gaining any traction, and I doubt Cummings has the same appeal as George Galloway is able, at times, to muster.
This is a copy of my letter to the Wellington Post in Dec 2022.
You kindly published an earlier, possibly controversial, letter about the Ukraine war; all that continues to happen merely reinforces my divergent opinion. Recently Mr Zelensky addressed the NZ Parliament via video. Following a standing ovation from all MPs, Mr Luxon acclaimed Zelensky as “Our generation’s Churchill”. Is this praise or a put down? Churchill, planner of the Gallipoli debacle (recall ANZAC, Mr Luxon?), Anglo-Saxon supremacist, ignorer of the famine in Bengal, and many other grievous failures. Later as leader in WW2 he atoned for some of these but, recall, in 1945 he effectively had to gave away half of Europe to another Russian autocrat, Stalin, rather worse than any Putin. Churchillian statesmanship is not just rousing rhetoric, which any actor can emulate, but sober judgement in the face of painful reality. Yalta was a painful realism, only a similar painful realism now can rescue Ukraine. Today, Biden tells Zelensky “we’re with Ukraine as long as it’s there” - rather less than reassuring. I feel utter sympathy for Zelensky, so inadequately equipped in his tragic role; he and all Ukrainians have been and will continue to be betrayed by the West - any Afghani, Iraqi, Libyan, Syrian or Vietnamese might well agree.
Re: Dominic Cummings: Zelenskyy’s no Churchill and Ukraine’s corrupt
I didn't see much comment on it, but I wonder about that supposed, (supposed Russian) plot to assassinate Zelenskyy. Could have been a way to cover up an internal plot to get rid of the West's stooge and get to the peace table?
Maybe there are factions becoming dissatisified with the country being hollowed out as they shovel cannon fodder on to the front lines. ...no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
on May 12, 2024, 12:01 pm