Boris Johnson describes Vladimir Putin as ‘not mad, definitely bad’

Boris Johnson says Vladimir Putin is 'not mad, definitely bad'. Source: GB News

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00:00He's surprisingly small and speaks English very well, not mad, definitely bad.

00:08He means no good for this country.

00:12He regards the United Kingdom as among their most important strategic foes, probably their

00:19most important strategic foes, which is a pity, but he's chosen that path.

00:24And he did things completely unnecessarily, the poisoning of Litvinenko, then the Salisbury

00:31poisonings, which you will remember, destroying what had been a progressive improvement in

00:39relations at the end of the Cold War.

00:42And we're now in a very, of course, invading Ukraine in 2014.

00:46And we're now in a very, very unhappy position.

00:50And what he is doing in Ukraine is criminal and it is also a mistake.

00:57It's a mistake for Russia.

00:58It's a mistake for Putin.