Trump was tough on Putin, Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says

Former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says Trump was tough on Putin.

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00:00But I am absolutely convinced that it would be a disaster for the world if Ukraine were

00:05to go down.

00:07And I think there is a genuine risk that a deal will be done that is not in the interests

00:12of freedom and democracy.

00:14I nonetheless cling to my memory of Trump when he was in office, when actually he was

00:22pretty tough on Putin.

00:23He was.

00:24He gave the Ukrainians the javelin, shoulder-launched anti-tank weapons, broke the taboo on giving

00:31such lethal weaponry to Ukraine, paved the way for lots of other countries to do the

00:37same and helped the Ukrainians pretty decisively in that battle for Kiev.