Russia and Ukraine

[Pat Mustard]

He's a chronic liar 
His term has been nothing but sleaze and national embarrassment
He's surrounded himself with idiots and sociopaths 
He's essentially economically ruined Britain through Brexit 
His incompetence during the pandemic killed thousands 
His cruel policies on refugees have cost lives  
His idiocy on international affairs has ruined the delicate balance of Europe 
His idiotic trade policies have guaranteed the death of UK farming and fishing 
His rapid Anglocentricism has alienated Northern Irland and Scotland and threatened the continuation of the union 
He's essentially ended the right to protest

Not going to lie, the vast majority of the list I don't disagree with. That said, given that the Brexit process went through two PMs before Boris (even if The Pigfucker only oversaw the referendum) and that it was such a fundamentally bad idea that I don't think anybody could have pulled it off, I'm not sure how much of the blame belongs to him.

Also, as crap as BoJo's pandemic policies are, I'm inclined to cut him a bit of slack. Not saying he didn't shit the bed quite a bit on the pandemic. But at least he gave a shit about trying to slow the spread of the virus. If you've lived under a regime where the leader is outright hostile towards any efforts to slow the pandemic, from the lockdowns to masking, and talks so much shit during briefings on the pandemic that they have to cut his mic, you at least start to appreciate the difference between trying and failing and outright trying to fail like Trump did (and this doesn't even get into the cult of personality that's developed around Trump and multiplied the problem, which I don't think has become much of a thing for BoJo). Granted, it took Boris getting COVID to understand that the pandemic is a big deal, but when it happened to Trump, it didn't change jack shit. And I'm sure that if someone from Brazil reads this post, they'll probably one-up me by pointing out how Bolsonaro is an even bigger jackass than Trump in this regard.

Actually BoJo the Clown didn't give a shit about curbing the pandemic. His on record policy was (and I quote) "Let the bodies pile up". He refused to convene COBRA meetings for months and then refused to attend any when he had to convene them. England was always last into protective measures and first out. It's vaccination and test and trace programmes have been an absolute shambles and the government's procurement programme has been used to allow his mates steal billions off the state.

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Am I the only one wondering why Putin didn't do this while Trump was in office?

Frankly he half arsed the job during the 2014 invasion of the Crimea. The Ukrainian army then was weak enough to topple on the slightest push.

Problem is, his twin 2014 invasions ( the Donbas "insurgency" was a Russian invasion in all but name) gave Ukraine all the impetus it needed to arm up properly and build a proper army. While this programme wasn't finalised by February, it was built up enough to fuck over a Russian army built to showcase it's goodies at arms shows for foreign buyers and nothing else.