It’s absolutely the case they are being paid in kind to fuck up public opinion again and let Putin win - again. We do not have time for this. No one has time for this.
I am not and never have been an apologist or supporter of Putin. His invasion of Ukraine was immoral, outrageous and indefensible. As a champion of national sovereignty, I believe that Putin was entirely wrong to invade the sovereign nation of Ukraine. Nobody can fairly accuse me of being an appeaser. I have never sought to justify Putin’s invasion in any way and I’m not now.
But the part they like is that he blamed the West for somehow forcing them into a war of aggression against a weaker neighbouring county that they had already invaded in 2014 and whose government they had interfered with, including installing their stooge Yanukovich.
They can ignore the disclaimers, they got the substantial part of their deal.
Now he can enjoy dirty Russian money via back channels, just like Le Pen, Orban and the rest of the jackbooted shits.
The inews article does quote that paragraph, but it does not say whether the Russian media who praise Farage mentioned it. I'm going to guess not.
Aside: Farage is so full of shit it's amazing he manages to sit down without it dribbling out of his mouth... "[Here's why Putin's invasion of Ukraine is the fault of Western 'liberals'...] I have never sought to justify Putin’s invasion in any way and I’m not now." Sadly, his open contempt for the intelligence of his supporters seems to be entirely justified.
That's weird. Why do the titles claim he said the opposite of what you quote? The more I listen to him directly (rather than read headlines about him), the more he starts to seem like just a classical tory from the 90s or 00s.
Just a classical racist, authoritarian, immigrant hating, war justifying, commodity trading tory from the 90s or 00s. Perhaps like Enoch Powell? Although he left parliament in the 80s.