Putin may be 'irrational' on Ukraine, says British PM Boris Johnson
India Today
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that the prospect of sanctions may not be enough to dissuade a Russian invasion of Ukraine, since Vladimir Putin may not be thinking irrationally.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday that Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin might not be thinking logically, so the threat of sanctions may not be enough to deter a Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Sanctions "may not be enough to deter an irrational actor and we have to accept at the moment that Vladimir Putin is possibly thinking illogically about this and doesn't see the disaster ahead," Johnson told the BBC.
Johnson also said he was unable to peer into the soul of Putin, Russia's paramount leader since 1999.
The United States and Britain would seek to cut off Russian companies’ access to US dollars and British pounds if the Kremlin orders an invasion of Ukraine, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the BBC.
“The plan that we are seeing is for something that could be really the biggest war in Europe since 1945 just in terms of sheer scale,” Johnson said.
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Johnson said that sanctions on Russia in the event of an invasion would go much further than previously suggested in public.
