Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson confesses in his political memoirs that he thought about invading the Netherlands through a military water attack to take away millions of AstraZeneca vaccines for Covid-19.
In an excerpt from his book ‘Unleashed’, published by the ‘Daily Mail’ newspaper this Friday, the former Conservative leader recounted how, after two months of “useless” negotiations with the European Union (EU) for the release of five million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine that were held in a warehouse in Leiden (Netherlands), in March 2021 he summoned the British Armed Forces to demand action.
Specifically, Johnson’s plan involved crossing the English Channel clandestinely with inflatable boats, navigating through the Dutch channels until reaching the “kidnapped” vaccines and then leaving with an articulated truck, although after consulting with his advisors he finally He rejected the idea, considering the invasion of a NATO ally “crazy.”
According to Johnson in the extract, the Deputy Chief of the Defense Staff, Lieutenant General Doug Chalmers, assured that, although the plan was “certainly feasible”, it would not be possible to carry it out without being detected by the Dutch authorities.
The operation aimed to seize what, in Johnson’s own words, legally belonged to the United Kingdom and that it “desperately needed” while the EU treated the British Government “with malice and resentment.”
“(The EU) wanted to prevent us from receiving the five million vaccines, but they showed no signs of wanting to use the AstraZeneca doses,” Johnson wrote, adding that at that time the European Commission had started a “legal war” with the laboratories British, alleging that the company was not fulfilling its contract with the European institutions.
Complaints that “didn’t make sense” to Johnson, as he stated that the chair of the UK vaccine task force, Kate Bingham, had signed a “bombproof” contract with AstraZeneca.
