Dominic Cummings: Zelenskyy’s no Churchill and Ukraine’s corrupt

 

Dominic Cummings: Zelenskyy’s no Churchill and Ukraine’s corrupt

 

Former Brexit campaign chief says the West is ‘getting f**ked’ by supporting Ukraine.

Dominic Cummings was scathing of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and comparisons with World War II. |

 

MAY 9, 2024 3:52 PM CET

BY NOAH KEATE

https://www.politico.eu/article/dominic-cummings-volodymyr-zelenskyy-ukraine-war-corruption/

 

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.”

 

The headline of this article was updated Friday after the i corrected its transcript of Cummings’s attack on Zelenskyy.