British PM Boris Johnson blames West’s Russian oil ‘habit’ for Ukraine invasion

The British Prime Minister, in an article, wrote that the West’s failure to cut back its dependence on Russian oil and pure gasoline after the annexation of Crimea led to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

Boris Johnson plans to part out imports of oil and gasoline from Russia by the tip of this 12 months. (Photo: AP)

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday underscored his drive for power independence, saying the West’s failure to wean itself from Russian oil and pure gasoline after the annexation of Crimea paved the best way for the invasion of Ukraine.

Western nations made a “terrible mistake” in returning to regular financial relations with Russia after the Crimean incursion and turning into much more depending on Russian power exports, Johnson wrote in a entrance web page article in a newspaper.

“And so when (Vladimir Putin) finally came to launch his vicious war in Ukraine, he knew the world would find it very hard to punish him. He knew that he had created an addiction,” he mentioned. “That is why he feels able to bomb maternity hospitals. That is why he is emboldened enough to launch indiscriminate assaults on fleeing families.” Ending the world’s dependence on Russian power will starve Putin of money, Johnson mentioned as he made the case for the U.K. authorities’s plan to part out imports of oil and gasoline from Russia by the tip of this 12 months.

To substitute Russian power and lower carbon emissions, the U.K. should increase manufacturing of wind energy, and spend money on different types of renewable power together with photo voltaic, tidal, geothermal and hydroelectric energy crops, Johnson mentioned. The U.K. should additionally reverse the “historic mistake” of transferring away from nuclear power, he mentioned.

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