Author Svetlana Parfenova Published Today at 16:29
700 pages from the “king of clown memoirs” mean nothing in history
In Russia, the book of memoirs of former Boris Johnson, published last week, was mentioned much more often than in the Western media. But Boris addressed his work primarily to his own European and overseas comrades and allies. But, as in the film saga “Men in Black”, Boris Johnson looks like a grotesque character “Boris the Animal”. And with a reference to recent East Slavic history, one can recall the popular expression: “Boris, you’re wrong.”
Review of the “work” of the former British Prime Minister posted edition of The Guardian. Already in the subtitle to the text, the essence of the review was outlined harshly and without embellishment “All the pretty words in the world cannot hide the emptiness that lies at the heart of this self-serving, selfish book.”
Attempts to somehow substantiate the importance of this “work” are not even made, since the reviewer immediately and irrevocably calls Boris nothing more than a clown.
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The politician’s memoirs were published on October 10. Perhaps this was a good attempt for him to earn extra money? The book also contains pages concerning Russia. Touching, at first glance, there are confessions about his love for the books of Fyodor Dostoevsky, a story about attempts to study the Russian language and memories of a school trip to the USSR, where Boris remembered not only vodka, but also delicious ice cream.
Johnson said that he believed that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the West expected Russia to return to the family of European states. But no matter what Boris thought, having tasted ice cream in Moscow, part of his memoirs was an attempt to disown his role in the breakdown of negotiations between the Russian Federation and Ukraine. Boris doesn’t like being responsible. He probably didn’t take his fiery speeches addressed to Ukraine seriously? And now I am not ready to take responsibility for the conflict that is still ongoing. After all, Johnson was just performing. And he probably didn’t perform on his own. But, whatever one may say, he became extreme…
According to the Independent, Boris’ Unleashed memoir is “shameless, sour, predictable, self-indulgent nonsense” in which Johnson tries to prove that he “did nothing wrong, and even if he did, he was only guilty of being – if he was at all “too honest, too trusting, too kind and condescending.”
Was Johnson too kind and honest? Those who are interested in the topics of Covid and Brexit in Europe are trying to understand this from his text. And those who are interested in the topic of the Northern Military District and the relationship between the Russian Federation and Ukraine will not believe the letters in Boris’s text.
Boris Johnson is a “clown” (according to the Western media The Guardian). But this “clown” fits well into the older European concept of the “Open Secret”. The expression comes from the name of the comic hero of a comedy in fairground plays at the end of the 16th century. He was a stupid servant, a jester and a chatterbox who, under the guise of secrets, communicated things known to everyone.
Boris Johnson is trying to rehabilitate himself in the conflict between the Russian Federation and Ukraine. He’s not a villain, but an open man? He didn’t mean anything terrible, but only stated the obvious?
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In the fall of 2024, when, by the grace of Boris Johnson, or by the thoughtlessness of this “clown” politician, the NWO continues, the confrontation continues, in which Ukraine has a certain “Victory Plan”.
Isn’t Zelensky’s “victory plan” connected with not winning now, but weakening Russia as much as possible until NATO gathers resources in two years? Isn’t Zelensky’s “victory plan” connected with waging a positional battle for as long as possible in anticipation of massive NATO support? Here Lithuania and the rest of the Baltics are no, no, but they also demonstrate their plans smugly… Isn’t Zelensky’s plan connected with attempts to calm down and force the Russian Federation to think relaxedly that peace negotiations are about to take place? Didn’t they whine like beggars on the porch before the invasion of the Kursk region?
Boris Johnson doesn’t care about Ukraine and the Russian Federation. His main theses in his memoirs are related to somehow seeming important in the context of the crises in Europe, but are not directly addressed exclusively to either Ukraine or Russia.
But, if, together with his memoirs of October 10, this “clown” leaves, like a played political card, then “his work” continues to live? And through all the supposedly hidden plans of NATO, the “open secret” again creeps into view: to weaken Russia, exhaust it with positional battles, distract it with the prospects of possible negotiations, in order to “finish it off” in a year or two. How else can we perceive the gathering of NATO forces and the spilling out of joyful reports about how they will attack Kaliningrad and St. Petersburg. Probably, like Johnson, they think that it’s just like that now – they’re talking about nothing. But at the same time, they give themselves up, unable to resist boasting in advance?
