Johnson gets on well with billionaire gangsters.
"Two years ago, in another scandal, he made his billionaire friend Evgeny Lebedev, the son of a former KGB agent, a member of the House of Lords.
How the UK became a Russia hawk is not just a story about a beleaguered prime minister taking up a noble cause. It is also about how long it took Britain’s military and intelligence services, who were among the first to understand Russian president Vladimir Putin’s dark ambitions, to convince UK politicians to end their gladhanding of the Kremlin.
That repositioning took nearly a decade, according to more than half a dozen serving and former UK security officials. It happens to now mesh with post-Brexit Britain’s need to reset relations with the EU."
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