Boris Johnson: ‘You can’t make America great again if Ukraine falls to Putin’

Mr Johnson urged Republicans in Congress, who have stalled a $US60 billion aid package for Kyiv, to unite against Russia to maintain America’s status as the world’s pre-eminent superpower.Speaking on Wednesday at a conservative conference in Canada alongside former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott, Mr Johnson said: “The resolution to this problem is the security and the stability that comes with certainty about where Ukraine is and what Ukraine is.

“I ­cannot believe that he will want to go down in history as the president who abandoned a country that he has already signally helped to keep free”, he wrote in January.reported last week that Mr Trump would pressure Ukraine to make peace with Russia by ceding Crimea and the Donbas border region if he wins the presidential election in November.

Mr Johnson said he believed the House Speaker was a supporter of Ukraine and argued that sending military aid was in the United States’ own national interest.“If you’re worried about the long-term ability of America to remain the superpower, if you’re worried about democracy around the world, if you’re worried about security, then investing in the security of Ukraine is the most cost-efficient thing you could possibly do,” he said.

Meanwhile, Mr Johnson said an Israeli airstrike on a convoy of aid workers last week was “appalling”, but criticised those calling on Britain to suspend arms sales to Israel.

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