Nigel Farage's comments on the Ukraine war have sparked controversy as he claims the West provoked Russia's invasion by expanding NATO and the EU. While some support his views, others criticize him for echoing Kremlin propaganda and being an admirer of Putin. Farage's statements have drawn mixed reactions, with some labeling him as a Putin apologist and unfit for leadership.
"If you poke the Russian bear with a stick, don't be surprised when he reacts." Nigel Farage, addressing the EU Parliament in 2014: "This EU empire, ever seeking to expand, stated its territorial claim on the Ukraine some years ago. Just to make that worse... some NATO members… https://t.co/bVC1imOVBy
Nigel has been clear that he wants to destroy our party He excuses Putin’s illegal war in Ukraine And he is more focussed on inflammatory rhetoric than delivering for working people We can’t concede to his style of politics, nor allow him in our party https://t.co/0XYc2OwTa9
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It’s good to see people finally linking Farage and Corbyn on foreign policy, both the far-left and far-right have identical positions on Russia, Ukraine and Syria. Farage, Galloway, Corbyn and Cummings, all have virtually indistinguishable opinions on appeasing Russian fascism. https://t.co/FyR1OL2b8p
'He's bending over in front of him and kissing his boots.' Labour's Steve Reed says he's 'shocked' by Nigel Farage's Russia remarks and thinks his 'failure to stand up to' Vladimir Putin makes the 'brutal dictator more likely to invade again'. https://t.co/AxXhN3TsCT
The security minister speaks out on Farage's comments on the West provoking the Ukraine war https://t.co/SLrXtYSgpp
The British political establishment is crapping its pants — en masse — about @Nigel_Farage’s common sense statements about how the war in Ukraine began. They’re even pretending they don’t know 2014 was a State Dept/Brussels-led coup. These people are either wilfully ignorant,… https://t.co/x4ZJrTUWWj
Farage admires a man who took "control of running Russia" through corruption, political repression, assassination, controlling the media and much more. Let's hope Farage is never in a position to take control of running Britain. https://t.co/A92YYk91N8
.@Nigel_Farage does not understand the “real world” of politics, and has been likened to a “pub bore” over his claims the West provoked Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine ✍️: @Davi_Lynch and @wil_dur https://t.co/xIaoSa6Y42
🔺General election latest: Ben Wallace, the former defence secretary, has accused Nigel Farage of being a “pub bore” for claiming that the West “provoked” President Putin into invading Ukraine. Tap below to read live updates ⬇️ https://t.co/2jubZVedqo
FARAGE: WE PROVOKED THE UKRAINE WAR https://t.co/LOYBtVqK45
General Election LIVE: Row grows after Nigel Farage says West provoked Russia into invading Ukraine https://t.co/woBAu5h0zm
Nigel Farage’s words on Russia last night shouldn’t be viewed in isolation. There is a pattern. As an MEP, he voted against plans to tackle Russian propaganda https://t.co/YSQFHXzPDp
Disgraceful for Farage to use the word ‘expansionist’ to describe EU. Expansionism is what happens when you invade another country’s sovereign territory, like Russia did in Ukraine What happened with collapse of USSR was countries queuing up to join EU and NATO because they…
Nigel Farage is being crystal clear here. His policy towards Putin and Russia would be one of appeasement. Which is fine. But he needs to be honest. He likes to play at being Churchill. But in reality he's the new Neville Chamberlain. https://t.co/iuzAiRZ3BZ
Back in 2014, after the invasion of Crimea I predicted that Putin would come for the rest of Ukraine, I demanded sanctions against Putin’s henchmen and a proper inquiry into his murder of Litvinenko. Meanwhile Farage justified Putin’s ethnic nationalism and said he admired him.
Nigel Farage has reiterated that he blames the West and NATO for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. @DSimmonds_RNP says "Nigel Farage should be ashamed of himself as somebody who claims to be patriotic" https://t.co/TwgXXQKNnr 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube https://t.co/CKQvUJnlCZ
'These statements expose the motivations of a wannabe politician prepared to do anything in their pursuit of power.' Military analyst Sean Bell thinks Nigel Farage's Russia comments are straight out the 'Trump playbook of just saying outrageous things'. @Matthew_Wright https://t.co/p8FU5jxZL9
Nigel Farage claims the West 'provoked' Russia invasion of Ukraine It’s clear that NATO are the aggressors here and it’s a dangerous game to play. With open talk of conscription in the UK it’s just a matter of time. War is looming. #GlobalistParasites https://t.co/x76LmfAEXr
'This could come back to bite Nigel Farage.' @Forster_K says that Nigel Farage's belief that the West 'provoked' Russia's invasion of Ukraine has given the 'Tories and Labour an open goal to have a go at him'. https://t.co/Zw3tfsGLuP
'I think it's a very foolish thing for Nigel Farage to be saying.' Political Commentator, John Oxley, brands Reform UK Leader, Nigel Farage, 'foolish' for suggesting that the West 'provoked' Russia's invasion of Ukraine. https://t.co/aT4Xoi3xZm
UK politician Farage says Russia's invasion of Ukraine was provoked by EU and NATO expansion Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage said on Friday that he believed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was "provoked" by the eastward expansions of the European Union and NATO. Farage made… https://t.co/8S159r8po2
Donald Trump and Nigel Farage are taking heat for saying that Russia was provoked into the Ukraine war. That is factually correct. Here’s my 2023 post detailing how the US Govt planned this war and left Russia with no choice but to defend the ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine. https://t.co/lSGn71Oi2l
It is striking that today (June 21) both Farage & Trump have publicly repeated the untrue Russian speaking point that the West provoked the war in Ukraine by Ukraine wanting to join NATO. If NATO had invited Ukraine, Russia would not have attacked. (Ask Putin!) https://t.co/COalboxHv0
Farage is Putin’s useful idiot. https://t.co/xYvmfeddXt
"Putin was wrong to invade a sovereign nation, and the EU was wrong to expand eastward." What?!? @Nigel_Farage On the one hand, the EU made diplomatic overtures to Ukraine. On the other hand, Putin invaded Ukraine with tanks, ordering mass slaughter and rape, and the abduction… https://t.co/TCWQrGZTWs
Nigel Farage is another 🏴 far right Putin Russian puppet & apologist blaming @NATO for the invasion of Ukraine Like Boris Johnson who blamed the European Union for Putin invading Ukraine The latter partied with KGB Agent Lebedev, ennobled his son & accepted 3 million Farage https://t.co/Zv3Dukpmmp
This denies the sovereign right of states to join the EU or NATO. It is pure Putin propaganda. I condemned the invasion of Crimea in 2014 and predicted a further invasion but some people refused to condemn Putin’s territorial aggression. Farage is a danger to our security. https://t.co/nF3HBQ47LL
These are disgraceful comments, which reveal the true face of Nigel Farage: a Putin apologist who should never be trusted with our nation's security. 1/3 https://t.co/i33FpuGLpz
Daily Mail: Farage - The West 'provoked' Putin #TomorrowsPapersToday https://t.co/aRYACvOpjh
Farage’s historical revisionism is an insult to all Ukrainian soldiers, and innocent men, women and children murdered by the Putin regime. It’s not a war, it’s a renewed illegal invasion. Ukraine and the West did nothing to provoke the autocrat and mass-murderer Putin. https://t.co/2Sxbf30ZbX
Farage’s “NATO provoked Russia into invading Ukraine” argument is absolute idiocy. He’s unelectable. That’s not how NATO works. NATO isn’t on Putin’s doorstep. Ukraine aren’t in NATO. And even if they were, NATO *still* wouldn’t be on Russia’s doorstep: Ukraine would be. NATO…
Second Chechen war 1999-2000 Invasion of Georgia 2008 Invasion of Ukraine 2014 Syria 2015 Kazakhstan 2022 Who provoked all these? One man Vladimir Putin Farage should: Learn some history Stop being Putin’s Stooge Stop pretending to be a patriot Back democracy over autocracy https://t.co/AfH7jIHQae
He’s talking absolute bollocks and is simply parroting Russian propaganda. I agree with him on some other issues. But being an apologist for the United Kingdom’s enemies renders Nigel Farage unfit to ever lead the United Kingdom. https://t.co/fVEpGYPgBP
Worth remembering this isn’t a one off. Nigel Farage has always been an admirer of Putin, and has never tried to hide it. https://t.co/FOIHiVxgbf
🇬🇧🇺🇦🇷🇺 “We provoked this war” — Nigel Farrage says NATO and EU expansion provoked the war. https://t.co/CbjgAWQygN
Putin fanboy pushes Kremlin’s propaganda while claiming to be a patriot and defender of democracy. What a scumbag. Unlike Farage, I was in Ukraine in 2014 as people died fighting for our European values - and in 2022, when Russian troops invaded a free country to stop democracy. https://t.co/DZiq1tlMpG
For some reason various journalists think that Farage saying that the West provoked the Ukraine war is going to damage him terribly. They really have little idea. It will boost him among the demographics he needs. Some people need to listen more widely than the politicians.
🚨🌎 Nigel Farage on Ukraine “We (The West) provoked the war in Ukraine” He’s not wrong is he? Anyone who claims otherwise is wilfully ignorant at this point. https://t.co/7oMIr6ojQJ
Farage saying tonight the West provoked Putin, by admitting democracies who asked to join the NATO defensive alliance, must surely be the end of any madcap idea the Tories would admit him as a member or allow him to take over their party.
Farage says the West provoked Putin with NATO’s eastward expansion. By this logic, which of our allies who asked to join NATO were being provocative? Poland? Baltic states? Who else? Is Farage saying they should not have been allowed to join a defensive alliance of democracies? https://t.co/OAUKLu8GdE
Breaking: "The EU and NATO are responsible for the war in Ukraine", says Reform Leader Nigel Farage on the BBC this evening. Rather than damage his reputation, this comment is 100% correct and win Mr Farage even more support. The @BBC political editor Nick Robinson, is left… https://t.co/MEz5yqN4dO
Farage has gone full Kremlin - will the British electorate appreciate it? https://t.co/il3LXMqLkK
Tonight Nigel Farage told us: • Reform policies are not policies • He can't explain how his own migration plan would work • He still thinks Liz Truss's budget was "the best Conservative budget since the 1980s" • He doesn't blame Putin for invading Ukraine
This is totally amazing. Farage's defence for his Putin apologism? He is not echoing Putin. PUTIN IS ECHOING FARAGE! He said the West would cause a war with Russia long before Putin decided to invade, apparently. 👀~AA https://t.co/TTrSneL6hy
Just Farage echoing Putin’s vile justification for the brutal invasion of Ukraine. https://t.co/2T09SPZ2Sd
Nigel Farage claims Russia was provoked into the war with Ukraine by NATO Like Donald Trump - Farage and his party would capitulate to Putin, and signal to any dictator that you can invade other countries with impunity He's no patriot https://t.co/wCtuyRnjjC
Defence analyst Simon Diggins says it's "completely nonsensical" for Nigel Farage to comment that the EU and NATO 'provoked' Russia's invasion of Ukraine by expanding. "A lot of respect to Farage for all he says and does but he's got this one really badly wrong!" @petercardwell https://t.co/Vmza7LDiEq
The West did not “provoke this war“ in Ukraine and it is shocking that Nigel Farage should say so. Sovereign nations have a right to defend themselves and organise their security in a way that they choose and not be dictated to or bullied by Putin’s brutal state.
Wondering why Nigel Farage blames everyone but Putin for the 500k casualties and 14m displaced people in Ukraine? read this thread ⬇️ https://t.co/VfMahqvY3M
But row brewing tonight as Farage tells @bbcnickrobinson West provoked Putin into Ukraine war https://t.co/3uT0eBfznE https://t.co/7Cj5WnicCw
By now, anyone who thinks Russia was NOT provoked by Biden, Zelensky and Nato over at least 8 years is being wilfully ignorant. Think harder. Do your research.. Don't parrot usa propaganda. Nigel Farage claims the West 'provoked' Russia invasion of Ukraine…
A useful reminder that whatever tactical utility people see in @reformparty_uk, it cannot be substantively supported. Nigel Farage reiterates his view of #Russia's eliminationist assault on #Ukraine: "We provoked this war." https://t.co/92VoCV9AtS
The mask slips. These are Kremlin talking points. In the European Parliament, Farage always defended Putin. Every vote for Farage is celebrated in Moscow! https://t.co/y5Wi6hyurp
‘In introducing a hard dose of reality, Nigel Farage surely deserves credit rather than censure.’ No one else is talking about the end of the Ukraine war, writes @arisroussinos:👇 https://t.co/4XeKaGqUVL