British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during her surprise visit to British troops in the Falkland Islands. AP photo
A cross between British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Russian President Vladimir Putin over the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine ended with a mention of Margaret Thatcher and the remembrance of the Falklands War in 1982.
The verbal duel began when Johnson used a controversial phrase to attack the Russian president: “If Putin were a woman, which he obviously isn’t, I really don’t think he would have gotten into this. crazy war between malesof invasion and violence in the way it did, “he told German television ZDF on Tuesday evening.
The beginning of this war, he said, is “a perfect example of male toxicity”. In the same interview, the leader called for more education for girls in the world and argued that “there are more women in positions of power”.
In the same report, the head of the British government also acknowledged that “everyone wants the war to end” but made it clear that “there is not yet a possible agreement”. “Putin is not making a peace offer,” he stressed.
But hours later the response came from Turkmenistan, where Putin claimed Johnson’s comments were “wrong” and provided an example of the UK itself, whose former prime minister “Margaret Thatcher decided to launch an offensive against Argentina to control the Falkland Islands in 1982”.
And I add: “There, a woman has decided to start a war”said the Russian leader.
Then, from the Russian government they also added other answers, already in a more ironic way. “Freud would have liked to have such a topic alive for his research,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Ria Novosti news agency of the head of the British government.
“Boris Johnson has a great imagination. What the hell did the Seven do together?”, Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, commented on Telegram, referring to the summit of the leaders of the seven major powers of the G7.
Boris Johnson’s confrontation of the situation in Ukraine with that of the Malvinas
After last Monday’s bilateral meeting with President Alberto Fernández, Boris Johnson referred to what was discussed in the meeting and compared the struggle for the sovereignty of the Malvinas Islands with the war in Ukraine, considering that in both cases “the principle at stake was the right of independent and sovereign peoples to determine their own future“.
“Forty years ago the United Kingdom, at the cost of many lives, upheld the principle that the people of the Falkland Islands (for the Malvinas Islands) should have the right to determine their future according to basic democratic principles and had the right to be British. , “He said.
It also emerged that Johnson replied: “It is a question that was resolved 40 years agoThis was revealed by Argentine officials who attended the meeting when the president demanded that Britain return to the negotiating table, as ordered by United Nations resolutions.
The words of the British generated the rejection of the Argentine government: “Boris Johnson’s unfortunate confrontation of the Malvinas war with the war in Ukraine is riddled with conceptual errors and expresses contempt for international law,” Guillermo Carmona wrote to the networks. today he is Secretary of Malvinas, Antarctica and South Atlantic at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
With information from AFP
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Source: Clarin
