nicko31
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The far bigger deal is how Johnson went straight from a NATO summit to a Lebedev party and emerged dishevelled holding a war strategy manual (actually reported in the DM, for about 5 minutes they had a decent editor) Then there was the unprecedented move by Johnson to give Lebedev a peerage against MI6 advice on security grounds. The Queen was asked intervene and refused.Russian politics is so complicated it's quite easy to put individuals into good and bad guy boxes.
The younger Lebedev wrote an open letter to Putin asking to stop the invasion.
However it's very clear why the Johnson's of this world stay so close and it's simply about the money.
Nothing to do with their potential political influence over the Russian regime. Putin doesn't need their money, he's got billions stashed away.
We can't estimate what a liability Johnson has been to national security. But it doesn't matter to him, its all about personal elevation and rewarding cronies and donors.
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