Russia's "farewell" Johnson, will he still support Ukraine after his resignation?

Johnson's departure does not mean

The British government's attitude towards Russia will be obvious

In just one day, more than 50 members of the cabinet resigned for the palace, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson finally agreed to resign as the prestigious party and British Prime Minister. At noon on July 7, local time, Johnson walked out of the black gate of the Prime Minister's palace at 10 Prime Minister's House of Tangning Street with long guns and short guns from various media. It took only five minutes to hurry to make a resignation speech. This marks Johnson's third consecutive British Prime Minister who resigned during his six consecutive years.

Boris Johnson. Photo/Visual China

Like his first two colleagues, before the Conservative Party officially launched the party's premiere procedure and selected the new party leader, Johnson will still lead a guard of the cabinet to govern and continue to serve as the prime minister. At present, the United Kingdom will not launch the election procedure because of this. Within a few weeks, the newly selected party in the Conservative Party will be appointed by the Queen to become the new British Prime Minister.

During the resignation speech, Johnson recalled several major things he did during his three -year prime minister. The first is to lead the Conservative Party to win the election at the end of 2019 with the biggest advantage over 30 years, obtain the authorization of the people and successfully complete the Brexit; second, he led the United Kingdom to take the lead in the world's major economies after paying a huge price. The blockade and restrictions of the new crown epidemic, although he was infected during the first wave of the virus and was infected by severe illness, and took a wave at the ghost door; third, it was also the most important and emphasized at the beginning: "Leadership West, fight against Putin and support the Ukrainian people for freedom. "

Support Ukraine to the greatest extent

Needless to say, during the Russia -Ukraine War, Britain was the strongest and strongest member of Ukraine's voices in all Western countries. The full war broke out at the end of February. Within two or three days, the British media rely on their strong news sensitivity and professionalism to stand on the front line of Kyiv, Halkov and Odessa. For more than a month since then, the major British TV stations and flat media have stopped almost all daily reports. The 24 -hour attention to the progress of the Ukrainian war is comprehensive, and the first -hand information from the front line is continuously transmitted from the front line and provided analysis and judgment. The sympathy of Ukraine's encounters, and resentment against Russian leaders and Russian military, was instantly pulled to a high point.

At the same time, among all NATO countries, in addition to Poland, Romania, and Baltic countries, which are cold with Russia and Ukraine, the British government's actual support for the Ukrainian government, army and refugees can be described as unprecedented. Just the outbreak of the war, Johnson frequently held the highest -level national security "Cobra Conference" in the UK, and made a comprehensive response to the war far from Eastern Europe at the fastest speed. It is no exaggeration to say that Britain provided the maximum diplomatic support for the Ukrainian government and President Zeseki himself; in the NATO framework, he was able to launch the fastest and largest military aid operations on the Ukrainian army; at the same time , The Conservative Government also expressed cautiously about the refugee issue before, announcing that Britain will accept Ukrainian refugees on a large scale. To this end, the visa and immigration administration of the British Ministry of Political Affairs suspended almost all backlog cases at hand and dealt with Ukraine. Refugee applications for refugees.

In the early days of the war, Ukraine could cross the Russian attack, stabilize the Kyiv War and transfer to the same, and benefit from the massive aid provided by NATO countries. Among them, the British and Sweden jointly developed, and the British government's "new light anti -tank weapon" (NLAW) portable missiles provided by the British government played a huge role. The weapon is light and easy to carry. It is simple to get started. It can be carried and launched by a single soldier. After the shooting, it ignores it, and has a top -level model, becoming a "cans" of the Russian tank. Since the war, a total of more than 3,500 NLAW missiles have been delivered to the Ukraine, and most of them were delivered in time when the Ukraine fell into the hard battle with the Russian army's superior armored forces shortly after the war.

In diplomatic occasions, Johnson also gave full play to his good at crisis diplomacy, especially good at using the personal relationship of leaders to carry out national exchanges. Whether in Ukraine or the Western world, he has made sufficient favorability for Britain. At the beginning of the war, President Zellezki could only live in the Presidential Palace to avoid air strikes and dark damage. Johnson often talked to him to express support and invited him to give a video speech in the British Parliament. At the time of Kyiv, on April 9, Johnson took a certain risk and became one of the first leaders of Western countries to visit Kyiv. He and Zerlezki hugged in the courtyard of the Presidential Palace like an old friend after he caught the back of his old friend.

"The best friend of Ukraine is leaving"

In the three years of Johnson's Prime Minister's career, the moment of the highest light of the internal affairs was the 2019 break -up record, and the first of diplomacy was about to promote the active performance in the Ukraine conflict. However, his diplomatic achievements on the Ukrainian issue still failed to defeat his ruling crisis caused by his past behavior. According to polls, the British public gives positive evaluations to the performance of the Prime Minister during the Russia and Ukraine War, but even more than two -thirds of the interviewees said that even the conservative party holders said that The Prime Minister continues to represent the party's leading country.

The main reason for Johnson's steps down is that during the blocked epidemic blockade, he took the lead in violating the regulations. He often organized drinking parties in the Prime Minister's Mansion, which caused anger for the whole people, and caused the Conservative Party to elections in May and the two members in June. At the same time, he was uncomfortable, and the vice party whipping had a thorough sex scandal. After that, he dealt with misconduct and gave the cabinet's rejection of rebellion, which eventually triggered a wave of resignation. If it must be said that his steps down with the Russian and Ukraine War, it can only be said that the international energy prices caused by the war are soaring, and the British people are supporting the support in the worst inflation in 40 years. No sincere tax reduction support is not given in time. The British people generally sympathize with Ukraine, but seeing the soaring oil price and electricity price bills. Everyone still looks forward to the government's rescue of the people in the country like supporting Ukraine. Johnson suddenly stepped down and made his opponents in the UK cheer. However, the people who are far away from Ukraine are unhappy. Under the Ukrainian channel of Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), many Ukrainian netizens posted a "child tears" emoji and replied to the news push. According to Reuters, when the news of Johnson's decision to resign to Kyiv, many Kyiv citizens expressed gratitude and reluctance: "Boris is a friend of Ukraine", "He really provided us for help", " My bar will always welcome him to drink for free. " It can be said that Johnson's effort to support Ukraine was indeed winning a good impression on Kyiv, but unfortunately, a group of people who could eventually determine his destiny were not in Kyiv, but in London.

Regarding Johnson's forced resignation, President Zenderski updated Twitter as soon as possible, saying, "We heard the news very sad, Boris is a real friend of Ukraine." And his opponent, former Russian president and current vice chairman of the National Security Commission, Modvedev, agreed, agreed: "The best friends in Ukraine are leaving." Russian president spokesman Peskov bluntly: "Johnson really doesn't like us, and we don't like him either."

Peskov's remarks were unreasonable. Although his father took a Slavic name "Boris", no matter ideological or realistic diplomacy, Johnson was the most hostile to the government's current government in the West's current main dignitaries. When he entered the cabinet for the first time a few years ago, when he served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Mei government, he personally handled the major case of the former Gelu -defeated spy Stile Pal's father and daughter's murder (attempt) in the UK. The host expelled dozens of Russian diplomats in the UK, and Britain and Russia once reached the edge of intercourse. After the outbreak of the Russian and Ukraine War, Johnson approved the assets of the Russian government, state -owned enterprise and Pujing Russia in Britain, and were transferred to Ukraine as aid and post -war reconstruction.

However, Johnson's departure does not mean that the British government's attitude towards Russia will be obvious. At present, a high voice may take over Johnson to become the new Prime Minister's candidate, and there are almost no people who are willing to alleviate Russia. The current officer of the defense minister with the lowest odds is a graduate of the Royal Military Academy of Sandhel. He was born in the British Army Captain. Among the top candidates, such as the Foreign Minister Teslas and the Chairman of the House of Foreign Council, Togenhard, are all well -known eagle factions. Perhaps only the former wealth -like Sunak did not work in the field of diplomacy, and was unknown to Russia and Ukraine. However, due to the first election procedure of the Conservative Party, the last two candidates were to be determined by mail by the All -British Conservative Party registered party member. Now under the British public opinion, any candidate for the ambiguous attitude towards Russia, It should be unlikely to win in this election.

(The author is a political commentator, a doctoral candidate for the Department of Sociology of Cambridge University, a member of the British Conservative Party Chinese)

Author: Qu Fanfu

Edit: Xu Fangqing

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