“The world is at a turning point” with the war in Ukraine and it is time to choose “between freedom and oppression”. That’s what British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said at the Conservative Congress in the English city of Blackpool, which is marked by the conflict in the Eastern European country and its global consequences, while in London there are those who are calling for a trial for Vladimir Putin’s warfare crimes in the Nuremberg way. The prime minister has no doubts that it is no longer possible for him to “normalize” relations with the Russian president after what happened, and there is a risk that this will happen in the future, given the possible threat from Moscow spreading to other states and criticizes those who want to do the same in some Western governments in the name of “Realpolitik”.
“We must not repeat the same mistake of 2014,” he stressed, referring to Russia’s annexation of Crimea and the West’s reaction. For Johnson, the head of the Kremlin fears that a “free and democratic” Ukraine is near and has invaded it for this reason. The British are therefore “choosing freedom every time” and must do so, according to the Prime Minister, both by supporting the Kyiv government and on the domestic energy front, in order to break free of the “dependence” on gas and oil that they have created the “pusher” Putin. And that’s why the conservative prime minister, as announced in the past few days, is aiming for a new plan to increase funding from national fields and focus on renewable energies. Other speeches in Congress have also centered on Ukraine, while the Partygate scandal that worried Johnson so much before the war is slipping further and further off the Tories’ “radar”.
Defense Secretary Ben Wallace compared Putin to General Leopoldo Galtieri, who headed the Argentine regime in 1982 in an attempt to conquer the Falkland Malvinas, which thenPrime Minister Margaret Thatcher was successfully fighting. Both “sent young soldiers to their deaths for their own political reasons”. On the question of the negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv, Foreign Minister Liz Truss expressed in an interview with the Times “very skeptical” about a possible success and pointed out that it could be figuratively a “smoke screen” “just created by Putin to reorganize its armed forces. Meanwhile, there are those who are already thinking about the postwar period: Two former prime ministers, Labor Gordon Brown and Conservative John Major, are among the 140 signatories, along with academics, lawyers and politicians, to an appeal demanding the Russian president and his staff the creation of a new international tribunal with farreaching powers and similar to the Nuremberg trials that made it possible after World War II to try the Nazi hierarchs for war crimes committed in Europe. For Brown, “if the message is not sent now, we will face aggression against other countries that could go unpunished”.
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