'Rewards': Ex-UK prime minister blasts Trump’s 'peace plan' as major gift for Putin

24 Apr 2025, 20:27 by https://www.facebook.com/17108852506 · AlterNet

U.S. President Donald Trump with then-U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson on September 24, 2019 (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craiughead/Flickr)

Alex Henderson
April 24, 2025World

Although U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. Vice President JD Vance angrily berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky when he visited the White House, Trump is now promoting a "peace plan" that he claims will be beneficial for both Ukraine and Russia and bring their war to an end.

Some Democrats in the U.S. believe that Trump is being manipulated by Russian President Vladimir Putin, but Trump is saying that he isn't pick a side one way or another in the ongoing Russia/Ukraine War.

Meanwhile, in non-Continental Europe, one right-wing politician who is being openly critical of Trump's "peace plan" is former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

In a Facebook post, Johnson — a member of the U.K.'s Conservative Party — said that under Trump's plan, there would be many "rewards" for the Kremlin while "Putin indiscriminately butchers more Ukrainian civilians, killing and injuring 100 in Kyiv including children."

The Tory argued that lifting sanctions on Russia would give the Kremlin "the right to control Ukraine's destiny by forbidding NATO membership."

Johnson wrote, "As for Ukraine — what do they get after three years of heroic resistance against a brutal and unprovoked invasion? What is their reward for the appalling sacrifices they have made — for the sake, as they have endlessly been told, of freedom and democracy around the world? Apart from the right to share their natural resources with the United States they get nothing."

Nothing in Trump's "peace plan," according to Johnson, would "realistically stop a third Russian invasion" of Ukraine.

The former U.K. prime minister posted, "If we are to prevent more atrocities by Putin then we must have a long term, credible and above all properly funded security guarantee for Ukraine — a guarantee issued by the UK, the U.S., and all Western allies."