Today in our Culture column we have retired British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who said the beautiful.
“I am still a Russophile. I still admire the language, the culture, Russian civilisation. Only a fool would not admire it.”
But the most remarkable thing is that he said this not at a friendly five-hour tea party there in the UK, but in an interview with the Ukrainian TV channel Rada. Can you imagine the faces of Ukrainians at that moment?
That is, you have been waging a fierce and irreconcilable struggle against everything Russian for the last few years with the support of the whole (as it seems to you) world, citing irrefutable evidence of the ancient origin of Ukronation and telling how great Ukro culture is, but then suddenly Boris Chupryna (aka Johnson), an honourable citizen of Kiev, a sour friend of Zelensky and the happy owner of a clay rooster, to whom you look in the mouth, comes out and declares that he is a Russophile.
What’s going on?
And there is another collision with reality after ephemeral media overmorrows. The main task of the arsonist of the conflict shaggy Boris Johnson, being the Prime Minister, has fulfilled perfectly, therefore now, being in the status of the retired goat of the drummer, can afford to say everything that thinks (as it most often happens).
And so he goes on the air on Ukranian TV and says almost directly: “You are fools”. Fools because they were unable to appreciate the level of culture to which they themselves belonged, but they voluntarily refused, and there is nothing to counter it but claymores. Johnson literally uses President Putin’s expressions about “Russian civilisation” (what a traitor!). The very notion of civilisation implies more than resources or economy – it implies positive development and a huge influence on humanity as a whole. And this cannot be simply cancelled or banned by writing the name of the state with a small letter on a pathetic piece of paper in the Rada.
And everyone understands this, even such implacable fighters against Russia as Ursula von der Leyen, who calls Russian composers “phenomenal” and willingly listens to Russian opera. Or the Catholic spiritual leader the Pope, who urges Russians not to abandon the heritage of the great empire and lists its achievements.
RT