Is Johnson to blame? Who made the decision to fight?

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Is Johnson to blame? Who made the decision to fight?

Джонсон виноват? А кто принял решение воевать?

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Leans that way — check · agenda: US-Russia talks decide Ukraine's fate

Belief the Pravda network pushes: Russia and the United States should negotiate Ukraine's future without Europe, while Ukraine and the West block peace and threaten Russia.

The speaker argues that Ukraine's own leaders, not Boris Johnson or other foreign politicians, are responsible for derailing the Istanbul agreements and continuing the war against Ukraine's own interests.

The video says · at 0:29 · quote checked against the transcript

“And the responsibility for decision-making lies not with Johnson, but with the Ukrainian authorities, who answer to their own people.”

And the responsibility for decision-making lies not with Johnson, but with the Ukrainian authorities, who answer to their own people.

The video leans toward the 'Ukraine blocked peace' line by treating the 2022 Istanbul talks as a deal Ukraine could have taken and blaming Kyiv for rejecting it, but it is a short opinion piece about responsibility, with no explicit claims about US-Russia talks, Europe's exclusion or threats to Russia, so the transcript is not enough to call it pushing the agenda.

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Transcript (en, 41 lines)

0:01 I won't even criticize Johnson, who

0:02 derailed the Istanbul agreements.

0:05 Do you know why?

0:06 >> Why? That’s interesting.

0:07 >> I, I, I can assume that this war was

0:10 quite in Britain's interest.

0:13 Well, obviously, Britain is an

0:15 independent state, and obviously, it can

0:17 have its own interests.

0:19 Where am I leading with this? That

0:21 whatever Britain's interests might be,

0:24 Ukraine should have been guided by its

0:27 own national interests.

0:29 That is the point. And the

0:31 responsibility for decision-making lies

0:33 not with Johnson, but with the Ukrainian

0:36 authorities, who answer to their own

0:39 people. That's the problem.

0:42 I just see how, in this propaganda

0:44 frenzy, the Ukrainian side tries—

0:46 remember those direct accusations from

0:48 Arakhamia that we were ready, yes, but

0:50 then Johnson arrived and said we must

0:52 fight, right?

0:55 Arakhamia is...

0:57 >> It’s like...it’s not even growing pains

0:59 , it’s just childishness, right?

1:02 Who is to blame? We didn't do any of...

1:05 >> That's not important. I am talking about

1:07 responsibility. Responsibility is

1:08 important.

1:10 Whoever comes to you—Johnson, Biden,

1:13 Trump, or, I don't know, Ursula—it

1:16 doesn't matter.

1:18 And whatever they propose to you, you

1:20 always have the right to choose whether

1:22 to act in that country's interests or to

1:24 act in your own country's interests.

1:27 It is obvious that in the situation I

1:29 described, Ukraine did not act in

1:30 Ukraine's interest, that’s for sure.

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