Nigel Farage claims West 'provoked' Russia's invasion of Ukraine
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- Nigel Farage has claimed the West “provoked” Russia into its deadly invasion of Ukraine two years ago.
The Reform UK leader said the European Union’s expansion as well as Nato had provided Vladimir Putin with an “excuse”.
His incendiary comments came in a high-profile television interview less than two weeks before voters go to the polls.
They are likely to prompt an angry backlash from politicians across the spectrum, who have supported Ukraine as it attempts to fight off the Russians.
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Finally an Englishman who tells the truth.
You don't know sh!t..stop pretending you do
An English man eating propaganda is nothing new. Traitors will always be there as long as they can benefit.
And so many others of his own hate him for this...
Go and figure out...
im calling bs here
Tell Nigel to go and live next to Russia. It is no fun.
Hearing the truth is a bad thing for the BBC and other politicians. Nigel is just spot on.
The only politicians to have the spine to speak the truth
The truth? And I suppose he knows more than Prigozhin did when Prigozhin made a video explaining how the entire point of invasion was just to install a new president, steal Ukraine's resources and pin another star on Shoigu's jacket? Not western propaganda, Putin's right hand man. You'd believe the sky was green if Farage told you it was.
Yes Farage spouting more far right wing bile as an admirer of Putin.
Just like Trump & Putin''s truths, and the blissfully ignorant sheep will follow.
He may say what he thinks, but this is the premier league and not some pub. Putin will use these words. He showed incredible stupidity in what he said and the way he said it. You know that too I am sure.
@@derekarnold3665
Oh dear ? 🙄🤪😜😂🤣
Everyone with half a brain can see that this is true
I really did LOL and that headline.....DUH, of course they did.
Liberals don't have even one quarter of it
Countries ask themselves to join NATO and the EU also they have to meet certain standards. Moscovia just invades its neighbors.
@@croatianwarmaster7872
LOL, that hilarious. "meet certain standards" and that all boils down to buying weapons from US military providers AKA, Military industrial complex. There no other reason whatsoever for NATO to exist other than grift to the MIC,
Russia went because the Ukraine army was bombing the snot out of the Donbas since 2014.
West is not resonsible for Putin's greed and paranoia. Does it really matter which excuse bullies chose in the end? Putin invaded because he could and wanted to and it does not matter what others did. Dictators always blame their victims.
BBC makes a fool of themselves again
So the only factual news outlets are R T and Fox ?
Garbage, Countries should be free to make their own choices, it's called being democratic. Unfortunately it is also democratic to allow people like farage to talk BS.
Yes the EU and NATO have expanded.
Why?
Because countries requested to join and were accepted. Which is far different from being forced to join the Warsaw Pack, and then being governed from Moscow as happened post WW2 until the collapse of the USSR.
Fears of Russian aggression and imperialism has driven the change, not the EU or Nato.
What Farage is saying is pure fantasy, as is your comment
Pretty sure Farage was the one talking, and the one who just took the side of our enemies over our nation.
BBC is typical globalist MSM
Nothing new there, then. Shameless gutter press. Just embarrassing fake news
Farage is 100 % correct
About what?
This is true....
Wrong. Present the source: name, time and date precisely when "NATO agreed not to expand".
Take all the time you like...
@@ronanmullan6797 what a stupid question
NATO is a defensive alliance. Farage and ruzzkis can f off if they think its a threat.
That's why I am voting reform mate, I want peace not war 👍
🙌
If you're voting for reform for one reason alone then you are part of the problem
@@develynseether4426 Who are you voting for and what policies are swaying you?
@@develynseether4426 Peace is no good?
@@develynseether4426wef bot
Nice try msm, but we all know what Farage said was completely reasonable. Vote Reform.
why is the full interview not available?? BBC still editing it to fit their narrative
czcams.com/video/s8tEBYClh_0/video.html
There is a channel that uploaded it called Liarpoliticians
The whole interviews are presented unedited
Grow up
@@StraitKnopfler I don’t watch the BBC channel
Love these comments! you can really see the people making there own minds up and not taking the BBC bullshit that they try and feed us..
He is anti British
Your comment is laughable. Farage and his ilk are Putin rent a mouth enablers....
The inconvenient truth for you my little Pro-Z puppet, is that Prigozhin made an hour long video explaining how the entire invasion had nothing to do with NATO and everything to do with stealing Ukraine's resources. They expected Zelensky to run away so they could install a new president. Clearly it didn't go to plan.
Tell me what Farage actually said. Tell me how Putin will use that.
That's a great post Chris
Well said Nigel. The ONLY politician in Britain who has told the truth about Ukraine/Russia. I will definitely be voting Reform now.
Russian Bot or Traitor. You choose.
@@egnbigdaveThe West massively provoked Russia, it's amazing some still don't know the history.
Ask every Eastern European why his country joined Nato. They will tell you the truth about Russia. They know Russia better than Nigel ever will.
@@egnbigdave Whereas you're just ignorant of history
@@egnbigdave Say what you will . Nigel is telling the truth. You bloody loser .
It's not a claim. It's a fact.
Mummy ?
Why have no journalists or politicians in the West forgotten the promise made by American and Western European politicians at the time of German reunification?
At that time Baker, Genscher and others promised Gorbachev that NATO would not move an inch (!!!) east if he allowed German reunification. Gorbachov, the naive philistine, believed them and withdrew USSR troops from East Germany and the entire Eastern Bloc. Why didn't the US army also leave Europe then, just like the Russian (USSR) army?
Today, NATO is on Russia's borders and Western politicians are amazed that the Russians, cornered, reacted?
The West cheated Gorbachov, it cheated Russia. Western politicians have forgotten their false promises. Now they are wondering and putting on a show of hypocrisy in front of the public. Psychopaths have reached the highest levels of the united West. It scares me that the people of the West believe the liars, and vote for the liars who have brought Europe to the brink of WW3.
@@bengal6248 There is no paper signed not to expand Nato east that you can show me so stop lying. Every bully blames his victims. If Russia was a good neighbor, there would be no need to join Nato. Eastern Europeans are free people, Russia is not their master to tell them what they can or can not do for their own safety. Who does Russia think it is to decide about other country's pact choice? Bs small talk means nothing. Russia must stop blaming others because others are not responsible for Putin's paranoia, greed and excuses. Putin blames Russia's past and present victims for calling the police. Nobody invaded Russia. Putin invaded Ukraine because he wants Ukraine and Nato is bs excuse. Ukraine had no chance to join Nato. It is not about Nato. It is about Putin's legacy. He does not want Ukraine to exists as a separate state. Dictators always feel "provoked" and it does not matter what others did or did not do. Ukraine was neutral, utin invaded because he thought non Nato Ukraine would be easy to overrun. He was wrong. Stop blaming Russia's victims.
@@bengal6248 ah cool, what movie was that?
Sounds like an enthralling alternative history.
Of course in reality, as you well know, Gorbachev said in 2014 "The topic of 'NATO expansion' was never discussed; it was not raised in those years. I am saying this with a full sense of responsibility. Not a single Eastern European country brought up the issue, not even after the Warsaw Pact had ceased to exist in 1991"
@@razormothpictures9779 Cool, another guy whit a chapter from bizarro world history by CIA and Pentagon. This informal promise was made among others by james baker, whether the washington's favourite poster boy for the lost cold war ruski Gorbatshov admits it or not. Malinformation is a bitch in 2020's.
It's not a "claim" if its true..... For the record, it is indeed true.....
They want to continue the west is good and everyone else who doesn't agree is bad narrative
Eastern Europe owes Russia nothing. It is not soviet backyard anymore. Russia always needs excuses and feels provoked no matter what others did or did not do.
You say True I say False. Indeed False. Wooaoo what a debate 😅 Continue ?
No, it's not. Putin is provoked by anything he doesn't like.
@@grosboxon3445Lol, live in your fantasy.
Farage stating the bleeding obvious.
Russian bot
@@jaspercaelan4998 wrong on both counts there. How can you not see it too, this should be the question you ask yourself.
The question I ask of my government is why are my hard earned resources feeding this Kyiv cesspit of corruption, I significantly object to that, when we can’t even build a high speed rail network.
@@jaspercaelan4998🤡
He won't respond. Has never won an argument in his life, and won't start now.@@yp77738yp77739
@@jaspercaelan4998that be you, clearly
This was an amazingly bad interview. Robinson tried time and again to set him up with ridiculous gotchas - real gutter press stuff, and failed every time
😆😆😆innit. Miserable fail
How on earth is challenging a known bullshitter on a demonstrable echoing of Russian Propaganda a "gotcha", when Russians themselves have admitted this has nothing to do with NATO and everything to do with installing a new president and plundering Ukraine's resources? You can go watch Prigozhin's video yourself, you don't need western propaganda to tell you this, they openly admitted it.
Yet here were are talking about a huge mistake.
Sometimes the TRUTH hurts !!, especially hurts the Mainstream Media News 😂
"The TRUTH", in upper case is always suspicious 😀
It's not the truth. It's his opinion.
Putin chooses himself by which event he feels provoked. That changes according to his ambitions.
Thanks for your Reply. When Selling items on eBay I always use upper case to highlight something which I feel is Very important in my description of the item. I feel the TRUTH is Very important, and in My opinion, Nigel Farage is telling the TRUTH. It's easy to do a bit of Research to find out if Nigel Farage is telling the TRUTH ?. It's similar to the Cuba Missiles Crisis in 1962.
@@frankbrown5504 Nigel Farage is A TRAITOR he says FALSE THINGS. In the 2nd World War, he may have been hanged for TREASON. But nowadays, TV are corrupt and let him do its propaganda
@@frankbrown5504 I feel Nigel IS LYING. He is a TRAITOR. He OBEYS to someone, we cannot say who, it is becoming dangerous.
Was he wrong ? Nope we are the bad guys in this Nigel is spot on💯! 👍🏼🇬🇧
We don't have to be the only bad guys.
Another traitor. You people are the pits.😏😏😏
And this just proves the dog whistle theory. Nigel says just enough for the nazi element to pick up on and get behind putler.
Russia is the bad guy too.
@@JH24821west give money and technology to russians, for they may continue be bad guy. AND NOT ACCEPT Ukraine in NATO and EU fast for stop this conflict. But bad West guy don't want save Ukrainian people as How it was with Finland and Switzerland.
Anyone who has been looking into it properly knows this
No, just an old myth peddled by the Kremlin.
I agree with you
Never thought I'd ever hear myself say this about Nigel Farage, but he's right
Ruzzian bot
@@lenovo7999gay bot
@@BuffaloSportsClub you’re the one who simps to oriental dictators like Putin lmao
Likewise
Robinson looks more like a gremlin each time the BBC wheel him out!
Robinson = balding, with bins...he only needs the beard!
A gremlin against the Kremlin.
@@TheNobbynoonar Actually a gremlin against UK
Robinson looks and sounds like he's just been dug up
Gremlin????😂😂😂😂😂
Nice to know at least one politician out there has the balls to tell the truth.
Yeah sure, and at the moment he's the only politician who's apparently done a lot of successful predicting.
He didn't predict brexit being a utter disaster, or was that just the tories fault? And not just an overall stupid decision to have taken.
I was saying it in the 90s, I predicted it a decade ago. When your lie falls apart so quickly you get whiplash 😂 🤡
@@jundisundi8208 He didnt predict it because he's too much of a dick to realise the outcome. How is that successful prediction?
I agree Farage has the balls to speak; but not the brain to impartially and fairly analyse.
@@jundisundi8208 How can you say Brexit is a disaster when the UK's economy comes second to Germany with France trailing in 3rd place?
This interviewer is dishonest and unprofessional in his way of asking questions in my opinion
He does it on purpose because he works on Deep State just like most of mainstream media. Putin and Farage are battling with Deep state and they don't like it.
Ou mean you don’t like someone asking tricky questions
Typical BBC A hole !
@@CZcamsmessedupmyhandle No he doesn't like quotes being taken out of context and the attitude of the interviewer is horrible and no surprise as he works for the BBC. If you like or dislike Farage it shouldn't matter when the BBC want to push an agenda or a narrative they make it very bloody obvious
@@CZcamsmessedupmyhandleif you mean several deliberate misquotes and loaded questions then yeah.
I watched the whole thing unedited, it was actually awful.
For example, he said to Nigel that Nigel claimed Brexit was a failure.
Nigel said the implementation of Brexit was a failure, but in essence Brexit was a success. Meaning Brexit was about getting control of sovereignty and border policy. We have that now. We didn’t in the EU. So yes Brexit was a success.
What wasn’t a success was getting down overall migration numbers. The interview put that on Nigel, but Nigel explained that he wasn’t in government and so the actual decision of migration policy fell to the Tories, not him. Which is an objectively true fact.
The interviewer then said to Nigel that he’s always got someone else to blame, and that it was his words things would better after Brexit.
The problem with that is that the interviewer is literally ignoring the fact Nigel wasn’t a member of government and thus has no actual authority or ability to reduce numbers. That is a biased position ignorant of facts.
Another was when he tried to make it seem like that Nigel was a Putin sympathiser because Nigel said he respected Putin’s statesmen ability. This is a dishonest blatant attempt at a smear. I can acknowledge adolf Hitler was a good political strategist and oratory speaker. But that doesn’t mean I agree with his views or actual policy. This is a brain rot take from the interviewer.
These aren’t the only 2, there was practically 2 or 3 of these for every single topic discussed.
So the BBC is angry at Nigel Farage for stating a fact?
Thank u for telling the truth
This was yet another dreadful and biased interview from the BBC. Numerous questions from that clown Robinson with a constant flow of aggressive interruptions every time Farage tried to frame answers.
Exactly.
He’s doing his job as a journalist to take the opposite stance. Would you rather live in Russia or North Korea where “journalists” are more deferential?
@@LD-vn3zu they of course just want farage to be able to talk uninterrupted for 20 mins and don't like facts that contradict him
@LD-vn3zu But surely you can see they apply different amounts of heat to different people? Not the first politician to be disliked by the news (Corbyn springs to mind).
If anything, I can watch Farage get grilled, handle it well, and then think how other party leaders give such rubbish answers to much milder questions...
@@LD-vn3zu Yeah, but he should at least let the other person speak. His interrupting is a form of censorship.
Just listen to military expert scott ritter..he tells you how it is, full stop..same as farages views funnily enough..
Scott Ritter is a paid shill and agent of the Russian government.
Ah the sex offender who sold his soul to russia
Putin himself outlined the sequence of events to Tucker Carlson oulining how aggressively he was provoked by the West. I've always thought this.
@@rb1062 Putin also told George W. Bush exactly what would happen if NATO didn't back off. It was reported by the media.
Yeah Scott Ritter, the man who has predicted Ukraine’s imminent collapse years ago.
Nigel says it like it is.... once again.
Excuse is not a reason and blaming countries for joining Nato is like blaming a victim for calling the police. Ukraine is not even Nato member and had no chance to join. Putin invaded because he could invade non Nato Ukraine only. He wants Ukraine as a part of Russia.
@@Blanka1100 It's more than that. Promises were broken.
@@misc_channels-po6rh Nato never promied Russia not to expand east and there is no paper signed, no written agreement that you can show me so stop spreading lies. Who does Russia think it is to decide about other country'a pact choice? Why do you think Russia had any right to have anything to say on that matter? Eastern Europe does not belong to Russia. Eastern Europe's agenda, freedom, rights, safety are ore important than Putin's wet dream about restoring USSR.
@@Blanka1100 There is no legally binding agreement but assurances were made and repeated in word and writing by many, including James Baker and Hans Dietrich Gensher and statements by the NATO Secretary-General at the time. Don't mistake a lie for what is simply your ignorance.
@@misc_channels-po6rh bs small talk means nothing on international political level so Russia should stop complaining. Ukraine is not even Nato member. If Putin cares so much about Nato expansion why didn't he invade Poland/Lithuania or Finland but he chose to invade non Nato country of Ukraine? Because Nato is an excuse. Besides Russia is not the one to decide about Nato expansion because Russia does not own Eastern Europe. As far as I remember Putin is not the president of any other country exept for Russia. Both Nato and Eastern Europe owes Russia nothing. Get over it. Who does Russia think it is?
Absolutely right again. Nigel is spot on, it's crystal.clear to anyone with half a brain...
Bot
Easy answers, bring out the red flag.
He blames Russia's victims for their will to be safe and secured.
@@egnbigdaveStruggling to cope with reality? Is that why you call others a bot?
Amateuristic bot.
CLAIMS? IT'S A FACT!
Farage is right on this one.
The governments of the west used to agree(at least publicly claiming to agree) to not expand NATO to the east.
Then they expanded east.
Then they said we should continue to expand east and that it's not a security concern for Russia.
Now they're saying Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a security concern for the west.
This begs a few questions:
1. Why did the west expand NATO to the east after agreeing not to.
2. If expanding east isn't a security concern for Russia and didn't provoke a response from Russia then why did the western governments in the 90's agree to not expand NATO to the east?
3. If Russia in Ukraine is a security concern for the west then why is NATO in Ukraine not a security concern for Russia?
4. If the governments of the west thinks Russia in Ukraine is a security concern then why do they not agree to not expand NATO to Ukraine in exchange for Russia leaving Ukraine?
I grew up in western Europe and I've been listening to the hypocrisies of western governments for decades and yet they keep finding new ways to baffle me with hypocrisy.
I'm not a fan of Putin which is why it's so humiliating that he's making more sense than any other European leaders.
I wish people would wake up and stop electing warmongers.
Everytime i commented similarly like yours i get banned in CZcams. It seems that free speech has it's limit.
Well put. And the answer to all your reasonable questions is: double standarts (obviously). As Latin phrase goes: Gods may do what cattle may not.
I am not a fan of Nigel Farage but on this occasion he is right.
Russian Bot
@@egnbigdaveYou can disagree with people by all means, but don't call everyone you disagree with a Russian bot. You're only insulting your own intelligence by doing so, which isn't necessary.
@@kmg2480 awww.. have your mates in the bot farm whinged to you... and you read Russian... exposed yourself there vlad. Nice touch with the Union Flag profile picture by the way.. I see you are a smart one for a low ranking FSB member - must be a supervisor... here's a tip for you and your comrades, choose profile names that aren't generic names and initials with numbers after them.
their is no such thing as Russian bot, the west have bot farms they need them
@@kmg2480the west admit to having bot farms
Well done Nigel Farage to telling the truth. 👍
He isn't.
Awful journalism, biased and kept interrupting to try and elicit the desired response by the BBC. Nigel did very well against such an awful person.
BBC need to go.
Not sure who is worsed, him or Morgan. If you want to interrupting your guests, why bother inviting him/them ? You might as well interview yourself . Prat .
THAT IS WHAT JOURNALISM IS MEANT TO BE YOU MUPPET
Farage has done irreversible damage to the UK, he is a disgrace
@@tinaforbes1059 If you want to interrupting your guests? New to English?
Total Russian crap. You'll never win! The people will stop you.
He’s completely right.
Excuse is not a reason.West is not responsible for Putin's greed and excuses he did pick.
Nigel statement is a fact. Nothing but a fact
Someone paid by Russia said WHAT about NATO??
"Nigel statement is a fact."
No. A Ruzzian lie.
@emm_arr A Russian lie? Putin had a very clear red line and urged NATO, EU & America not to cross it. They did and he responded. Where's the lie exactly?
@@Matick-What ‘red line’ was that exactly?
Ukraine isn’t a NATO member I might remind you.
@@emm_arr He was saying this in 2013, He said a war with russia is coming and that NATO pushing to Russia's border provoked it. How isnt that a fact?
Putin atleast used it as the excuse so from farages perspective irregardless of Putin's decision he was proved right.
What a disgusting attempt to subvert open discourse. Nigel didbso well in this interview. What an appalling way to conduct an interview.
Interesting. What you term "discourse" the rest of the sane world knows to be, disinformation.
About time someone said the truth
In the land of democracy where no one is allowed to have their view 😂
If that was the case he would have been arrested already.
Someone with a clear mind who got the balls to tell the truth and could be instrumental in preventing a catastrophe. He needs to be in the Parliament.
You'd be one of the Germans in 1945 saying "no no no... I wasnt a nazi". Dont vote.. in fact dont breed, the world is stupid enough as it is
How are we going to prevent a catastrophe?
@@JH24821 Don't ask me. You should be asking this question the one you will be voting for.
@@maxiakouchev8175 You're naive to think anything is going to change. In the end all leaders are the same and we're just willing pawns in their game of ambition. Farage is just more of the same. He delivered Brexit and then fled like a coward. Who says he won't do the same after Reform wins?
@@maxiakouchev8175 You're naive to think anything is going to change. Farage is no different from any other career politician hungry for power. He delivered Brexit and fled like a coward. We're all just willing pawns in their quest for power.
He didn’t say that what the west was doing was wrong, he said it was all that putin needed as an excuse to invade
That what he said. You don't expect him to condemn US/UK/NATO policy, do you?
That wasn't the reason Putin gave for the invasion...it was a claim of eliminating the far right extremists in Ukraine...Mr F better watch out....
You need to do a little homework. Ukraine On Fire?
That is the correct interpretation and point blank said the war is Putin's fault.
Exactly @@AshTownsend
Farage is in line with renowned US foremost political theorist John Mearscheimer
Realism is real because that’s the way the world works, not the world these lunatics live in
Not only.
There are several high profile people in the US that I follow that express the same facts on the history of the situation! Professor Jeffery Sachs is another one! They are out their just not seen on MSM! Inconvenient Truth Tellers! Peace
And Professor Jeffrey Sachs
he's right
Faaaaarrrrrrrrr- right.
For once Farage was right...
@RemoanersRtossers havent you got some pro Israeli post to support
He s more often right than wrong
@@user-ee1zb1fn3y according to who?
Farage is right on most things 😊
@@user-ex1hj1vv1m He has no clue what it is like to live next to Russia.
The first casualty of war is a liar American policy is based on that all the time😊
And? He’s right. Absolutely correct. The West wanted this….and they got it.
Just ask Victoria Nuland.
Yeah. The Neo Con
Didn’t Corbyn say that some years back about NATO and Putin.
can you leave the west pkease.
Vikroria Nuland was on Ukrainian square and she was giving sandwiches.Who will forget that moment . Hi from Macedonia 🇲🇰
Victoria Nuland was a Ambassador to NATO that is it, stupid Russian bots lol
At last a politician who's not afraid to tell the truth. Respect to you Nigel
Farage is now spreading Kremlin lies.
Joined
Is that you Vladdy?
Farage couldn’t tell the truth because he wouldn’t know the truth if it smacked him between the eyes. He’s backpedaling tonight according to NewsNight. He looks like a Putin-lover. Not very patriotic. 🥴🇬🇧
He'll say whatever fuels his false narratives...always has, always willl...nothing but a bandwagon jumping narcissist.
The west did provoke the war. Didn't think this was debatable.
Because you don't have a brain to think . Simple.
Only to democrats it's debatable
@user-hs6xs7zl6k Hypocrites in the biggest way.
When Missiles appeared in Cuba, WWIII nearly started.
When the Soviet Union fell apart, NATO promised Russia that they would never push East. We let Poland join, plus a bunch of countries like Latvia and Lithuania all become NATO members (the promise to not push east was well and truly broken) to prove that NATO's new borders, all along the west of Russia's border to which Russia pushes a little bit back with that carry on in Georgia in 2006 I think it was?
Did we listen to Russia? Not then, and to rub salt into the wounds Russia's NATO application gets rejected. We could've been good friends, but no, Ukraine wants to join NATO, which of all the other countries has a bigger border than the lot of them with Russia.
Could be argued that it was a Cuba-style flex to which Russia started a conventional war, Not WWIII as promised by the USA back in the 60's.
As soon as that starts, we then get the last 2 countries in the west with a border with Russia in Finland and Sweden.
How that isn't seen in the same way astounds me. It could be said NATO has created a situation far worse than Cuba.
The lives of the soldiers being changed forever as young men from anything to losing a finger right up to and including death is somewhere around the 400,000 between them, surely that is worse than Cuba.
Putin warned 1000 times that he would attack Ukraine if NATO kept on letting Ukraine think they might get to join NATO.
Rather than the straight rejection Russia got when it applied, Ukraine was a long drawn out one which would look to Russia tge NATO were seriously considering their application.
You will never belive what the guy who said the sane thing 1000 times did.....?
We provoked Russia time and time again, they done the same back Ukraine is paying for NATO's posturing.
@randommadness1021 yeah I know they say countries are free to join but that's no excuse they should just decline if they are too far east but they kept going thinking nothing would happen
More precise, it was America....
Funny how Putin never mentioned this in his review with tucker, when tucker asked about his reasons, he just spoke about history, not one mention of NATO.
Tucker himself has no clue about Eastern Europe's history with Russia. He is ignorant the same as Nigel.
Nigel claims? It’s bloody fact lol
Absolute tripe.
It bloody isn't. Countries have to apply to be NATO members and they did so due to fears of invasion by Russia.
@@Neutralino2014 called.
@@pooooornopigeonWhen Russia invaded the Donbas and Crimea?
@@Neutralinowhen NATO expanded into 12 of the 13 former Soviet Union states placing 100s of thousands of American troops and nuclear weapons along Russia's western border ? Educate or stfu !
And he’s absolutely right, poor attempt at the bbc trying to pick him apart and making it the top story.
You okay mummy ?
Please milk me daddy Nigel
every bully needs excuses and blames his victims Putin is no better.
@@Blanka1100Putin isn’t provoking a proxy war like our evil leaders. Stay blind or see the truth, your choice.
@@sampreece Putin simply invaded independent country of Ukraine because he wanted Ukraine to be a part of Russia. How "nice" of him.
Ok let’s think. So if Putin started setting up a nato equivalent and countries joined and he promised us he wouldn’t get any closer to us and allow any country close to us join but he kept allowing more and more to join and got closer and closer to us and all of a sudden he allows France to join even tho for decades he was promised he wouldn’t, I wonder if it would be our fault or his fault. No one is saying farage loves Putin or agrees with the war he stating “FACTS” Putin was provoked for years and years and eventually a country that is watching its power taken and security infringed upon starts a war, THAT IS NATO AND THE WESTS FAULT FOR PUSHING A DANGEROUS STATE TOO FAR.
Are you saying it would be ok for us to invade France then?
Idiot.
Russia always feels provoked and needs excuses and Russia has always been a terrible neighbor. Blaming Russia's neighbors and former puppets for joining Nato is llke blaming a victim for calling the police. There is no justification for a bully. Joining Nato was a choice while being Warsaw pact member was not and being forced to live under russian and soviet rule was not even funny. Eastern Europe owes Russia nothing.
Nick Robinson is pathetic.
But putin hardly ever talks about NATO expansion when he talks to his own people. He talks about Nazis and Ukraine not being a real country. He recently started talking about NATO, but mostly as a reason for his 3 day special military operation lasting years.
The audio may as well not be included
I turn the volume to full & could hear it ok
Try it
The audio quality is a form of youtube censorship as my audio is fine on this one, but i get the censorship on other videos. Disgusting
It's Farcage's lies, so not a big loss.
It absolutely did.
Ok, Orcssian bot.
@@jeckjeck3119 yes, very well, thank you. Enjoying this sunshine?
Mainstream media doesn't like someone telling the truth!!!😁🖖
Typical MSM and especially the BBC, no one is allowed to have a different view, especially Nigel Farage, I question if we are actually living in a democracy…..Although I don’t totally agree with all his views on this matter I defend his right to air his opinion….
You're shilling for a fascist supporter of an imperialist dictator and you're talking about democracy?
You won't be if the likes of Farage, Trump and Putin have their way
We are living in a semi-democracy, because we elect the Uniparty every few years.This year their A-Team will stand down and the B-Team will take over.
A different view to the one he’s previously expressed? I thought independence was his thing, but he’s happy for Ukraine to be bullied by Putin
“Democracy”. “Freedom of speech”. They fooled us for a long time. Not anymore.
Farage stating pertinent facts again! 👍
How's the 350 mln pounds for NHS doing?
The irony in the juxtaposition of your comment and profile pic is not lost on me.
So which is it, pro uZZr or against uZZr? Hmmm?
@@JagdWehrwolf that was Boris not farage. You really thought you did something there didn't you lol
@@TheTruthHz as a commie, there's a lot of overlap, just different conclusions. We think the solution is total equality, they think its racial supremacy. I think its important to remember russia is not the ussr and the ussr isnt russia. Russia is definitely a villain here, but the only victim is the ukranian people. Western expansion to the east could only ever have triggered w war and thats exactly what the military industrial complex wanted.
@@TheTruthHz have you been asleep since 1993? Russia has not been Communist since then! It's now Nationalist and Patriotic. Traditionalist. Hence the "West" hates it. Farage is correct. NATO caused this conflict.
Like that's a totally normal and logical statement. Surprised to see my national news broadcaster as some kind of far right loon for making such a simple prediction.
The Farage Brigade is alive and speaking with one voice in these comments. It’s embarrassing that so many of the comments are almost identical. Like they cannot think for themselves
They're bots. Russia has a whole bot farm and want to promote anything pro-Russia.
Nuland and Pyatt were talking about regime change in Ukraine back in 2014.
Worse, they organised it!
@@JP-ve7pp Devastating, they used Nazis to make it happen.
Yeah that is a lie tho, as Nuland had no power she was Ambassador to NATO which is nothing at all, Ukraine was at war with Russia 300 years ago Russia hates those next to them.
@@robinbreeds9217 She was the assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs.
There was also her recorded phone call with Pyat, where they were discussing the makeup of the next Ukrainian government.
She was enforcing US foreign policy.
Russia invaded Ukraine illegally comrades under international law because it could not interfere with their politicians who had turned Westward not towards Russia!?!
Typical BBC media bias. What an awful, rude and ignorant interviewer. In my opinion, of course.
You don't want the BBC to question Farage?
If Farage can't answer,
how will he cope in parliament.
@@onecupof_tea He did answer? what are you talking about? Plus this wasn't a proper interview they were just taking quotes out of context to make him look bad because as we all know BBC are very Biased. I wonder if He'll be this hostile towards the other leaders (apart from sunak) and take their quotes out of context.
@@Ryan-bs6kn my god that bot user name!
bot user name?
@@onecupof_tea He did answer. Couldn't you hear it? Or does the Farage Derangement Syndrome block your senses?
He said pretty much the same thing on his show 2 years ago. Funny how it gets picked up right now, isn't it.
Is he wrong to make such a statement?
He is constant whenever or we always agree. For 25 years he has been against the EU project and has said so. These comments should not come as a surprise.
Well he aint wrong.
About parroting Putin talking points…the man is a clown.
He's Putin's little puppet!
@@Lloyd.Browne Parroting? He took the threat seriously, and was correct. He’s a vile man, but he was right on this one.
Yes he is 😂
Well, yes. Yes he is. And he has been horribly wrong about literally everything else he's ever said
He's right though, truth hurts...
I am Polish, We live next to Russia and I can tell you one thing for sure. Russia always feels "provoked" and Russia always needs excuses. Blaming my country for joining Nato is like blaming a victim for calling the police because she did not want to be abused anymore. If Putin does not like Nato at Russia's borders, he should really try and stop giving neighbors good reasons to join. Russia feels "provoked" just because we want to decide on our own about our own home.
He's not saying that. He's saying that Putin used NATO and EU expansion to justify what he probably wanted to do all along. It gave him the excuse he wanted.
Don't give people a reason to do something you later don't like.
@@okasur1 Excuse is not a reason. Putin would invade anyway. Just because he could and wanted to. Nato has nothing to do with it. Ukraine is not even Nato member and had no chance to join. Ukraine's idea of membership was refused by both France and Germany. It did not change Putin's plans. He wants Ukraine. He has always wanted Ukraine back.
@@okasur1 OK, so that includes YOU! Don't do anything your neighbours don't like because YOU may give them a reason to do something you later don't like! Have you been to ask them if you offend them?
What a world we would live in if we couldn't live our lives as we wish but only do what our neighbours are happy with!
Ukraine unlike Poland is culturally and historically split between pro Europe West and pro Russia East. Toppling of Yanukovich by far right led to a bloody civil war in the east of Ukraine since 2014. This civil war is the reason Putin had to intervene. Russia never prepared to invade Ukraine. It doesn't even have a military force strong enough to do that.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
Vote reform 🎉🎉
No thanks
@@jaspercaelan4998 There isn't really an alternative.
Zero credibility on any part of their manifesto and a leader who is never is accountable for the lies he tells.
@@cheesecakeisgross4645 Last time I checked we had more than one political party.
@@Zero_Ninety Nope, just one for the past few decades... The uniparty
Nigel is right and u look fools trying to pull him down with this
Unfortunately he's wrong.
@@jaspercaelan4998actualy hes 100% right
Putin's stooge like all the rest of these right-wing Euro popularists. They'd be the first to fly the surrender flag in the face of our enemies.
Totally agree....👍
@@jaspercaelan4998No he is not wrong, he is actually 100% correct.
I thought Nick Robinson was fired for not verifying sources? But anyway, ive no problem with politicians being held to account, but Nick Robinson always seems slimy. I end up feeling sympathetic towards the interviewees
Reform have just got my vote, well said Nigel Farage!!
How would England feel if France, Scotland and Ireland joined a military pact with China and planned on letting them’ build military bases right on the borders and a navel one in the channel? I’m not justifying Putin, I’m observing the geopolitical lunacy.
I guess you don't know that NATO already borders Russia.
your whataboutism is invalid. Ukraine does ot belong to Russia and USSR is gone. Ukraine had no chance to join Nato and that is why Putin invaded. He could try tooverrun non Nato Ukraine only. If Ukraine had been in Nato, he wouldhave never started. It is like blaming a victim for defending herself.
@StrangeTapes and they've had enough obviously
@@Blanka1100oh come on don't be naive!
Was in 2 minds about Nigel but now-YEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSS!Finally the truth.
you repeating it doesn't make it less of a lie. You get that right?
There was zero NATO expansion until after the invasion. Vlad can thank himself for Sweden and Finland signing up.
Someone paid by Russia said WHAT about NATO??
vote reform, vote for sanity
Ditto. This, and the promise he made to leave the ECHR has convinced me to Vote Reform. 👍
@Occident. It's terrifyingly easy for populists to get votes from the gullible. Such a shame
We finally have someone from the west with a clear conscience god bless you my brother
We all know he’s 💯👌🏻 correct. It’s just that his comments go against the mainstream agenda 🤷🏻♂️
The media are advertising this like he’s not right ? Good effort but he’s spot on.
Here's your rubles, Ivan.
You repeating it doesn't make it less of a lie. You get that right?
There was zero NATO expansion until after the invasion. Vlad can thank himself for Sweden and Finland signing up.
He's utterly wrong, Ivan.
There was zero NATO expansion until after the invasion. Vlad can thank himself for Sweden and Finland signing up.
@@TheTruthHz Read more.
Russian trolls be like…
@@TheTruthHzjust Google nato expansion post soviet collapse please and educate yourself. I would also look up the Minsk accords. Jesus you people are thicker than a submarine door
If you no the history Farage is correct.
Yes farage no’s the history too 😂
No history is what Frage knows
Start with learning the language before moving to history.
Edit: (ironically) spelling
@@JagdWehrwolfyou might want to check your own spelling. But I agree with the sentiment of your comment.
i believe the professional contrarians "replying" to your comment are trying to point out that the ' no ' you're looking for is spelt 'know'. And yes, it's evident Farage has read his history.
Finally some truth
today it is a crime to tell the truth
Oh really? That must be why nobody is coming to arrest Farage.
Yes in Russia.
Just stating the obvious
Only 'obvious' if someone is paying you rubles to repeat the lie.
@@TheTruthHz Russia gave up Eastern Germany on the proviso that NATO wouldn't move another foot toward Russia...NATO is now on Russias doorstep with the CIA removing the democratically elected (Pro-Russian) Viktor Yanukovych and installing Pro-NATO Zelensky, which started the Ukraine war back in 2014...Try thinking for yourself instead of parroting what you hear from the mainstream media
@@TheTruthHz you are not entitled to your opinion. you are entitled to your informed opinion. no one is entitled to be ignorant
@@Allenmayesallenmayes please, show me any legal text that removes your entitlement to ignorance and an uninformed opinion... I'll wait...
@@TheTruthHz Oh dear. Even an A Level student knows this NATO Secretary General Manfred Wörner 17 May 1990 speech: "We have to find solutions that respect the legitimate security interests of all the participants - including the Soviet Union...We are ready not to deploy NATO troops beyond the territory of the Federal Republic of Germany...We are not proposing something to the Soviet Union which is against its interests."
The narrative is crumbling.
Helped by liars like Farage and you.
There was zero NATO expansion until after the invasion. Vlad can thank himself for Sweden and Finland signing up.
Russian bot. Know how to identify them.
@@jaspercaelan4998 Beep boop. We come from 2016
@@jaspercaelan4998 Is it meant to be trendy to call everyone Russian bots nowadays? Looks pathetic
That's it. Don't actually offer any rebuttal. Well, you can't offer anything, because it's true that we provoked it. @@jaspercaelan4998
He is right, we did and we need to keep out of wars that are nothing to do with us.
Well said Nigel , they just can't handle the truth
He is spot on
If youre a mug.
Nato fanboy@@SuperKeown
there was one condition back in 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed, don’t expand the border to the east. The rest is history.
That “deal” was nothing but just a piece of paper, NATO never said anything to not expand to the east.
It’s not the russian business who should enter in NATO or not.
Total Russian propaganda Farage is spouting, next thing hell ne calling himself Chamberlin…..
It’s not NATO expanding to the east but rather the EEU states clamouring for protection from Russia. They HATE the Russians after their long history of having been invaded and brutalised by them. If NATO is so threatening to Putin, why is he unconcerned by the long Finnish border left undefended?
@@Oliver-cv6pv I don’t remember saying it was a “deal”. NATO has been obsessive about expanding the baltics poland and Ukraine into NATO. It kind of is Russias business as over the last 20 years they have expanded largely over their eastern border.
For the price of just your freedom!
It's just so bloody obvious to anyone paying attention.
Everything Nigel Farage said in this interview is spot on and he is the only person to tell it how it is.. Any vote other than for this man is a vote for your own demise 🤡
As Eastern Europeans why they joined Nato as quicly as they could. They know Russia better than Nigel ever will. Russia needs excuses, not a reason. Ukraine is not even Nato country. Putin invaded because he wanted to.
Robinson made a prick of himself with all those interruptions and wilful misleading editing of quotes .
The BBC stink. This did Farage a lot of good.
No it didn’t, it has damaged him.
They did.
And when are you MSM muppets going to realise we are sick of your lies.
I've never met a sane person who uses the term MSM (mainstream is one word btw)
@@AndrewLakeUK I've never met someone who _doesn't_ use the term "MSM" who wasn't also a Commie or a paedo.
So I guess we're even.
I concur! 😂 @@fredmercury1314
You are the one telling lies. NATO and the EU are not countries. They don't have a border to expand. You have to ask to join. Its Russia that is expanding its borders. Expansionism is defined as the belief that a country should grow larger : a policy of increasing a country's size by expanding its territory.
I think you would be happier on Rutube, comrade
Reform just gone up another couple of points 😂😂😂 - Nothing the MSM can do about it
Vote Reform for Russian control. Thanks Nige for coming out of the closet
@@Gilan4983have you heard yourself 😂😂😂
@@Gilan4983you live in sort of Lala land if you think the Putins actions were not directly made due to NATO decisions
@@gazjonze haha, keep trolling. Part of the reason Putin felt able to invade Ukraine was due to divisions in the EU created by Brexit. Johnson and Farege are knee deep in dirty Russian money. They don’t don’t stand for anything but themselves
@@Gilan4983 Behave 🤣
Our MSM is getting more CCP by the day 😂
The audio editor was a DEI hire
They have been for years.
Coming from a person who's brainwashed by Western propaganda, don't you think we ought to have some opposing perspectives for democratic purposes? Let's face it, judging by the outcome, the CCP is doing way better than our so-called democratic society!
Farage is MSM. The amount of attention this idiot gets is ridiculous. Bloody Brexiteer elites, ranting on about wokeness and net zero. We need to take our country back and make Britain great again!
BBC agenda is to control plebs by filtering the news. Has nothing to do with China, we are controlled by the US. Nukes, planes, NATO... all yankee doodle. We just have to bark loudly or we are on the children's table with the brown faces.
Nigel is absolutely right and the fact that the establishment is livid that he said it says it all. I'm delighted that at long last, someone had the courage to tell the people the truth.
As I understand it, when Gorbechov agreed with the West to remove the Berlin wall, that the West would not move NATO one inch further toward Russia. Again a broken promise from the west lead by the so moral United state and isay morally sarcastically about US
There is no paper signed not to expand that you can show me and stop blaming Russia's victims for their will to be secured. Russia does not own Eastern Europe to demand anything. Get over it.
Why can't people stop lying about the things Nigel says? 🤷♂️
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The liberal msm only like what fits their narrative.
In upside down world.
Im not a bot 🤖 and I'm voting Reform 🇬🇧
GOLOM
CAN'T COPE WITH THE BITTER TRUTH FROM NIGE
He is just telling the truth, we all saw it, from 2014 when the EU was walking with the incoming President during regime change, don't say we didn't see it.
And surprisingly the outgoing president f*cked off in a very non suspicious direction of moscow stealing the equipment of presidential palace in Kyiv while doing so. And that was after he released his dogs ('Berkut' Special Police) on the citizens.
Sure thing, comrade.
You were clearly watching Россия-1 and likely getting paid for it too. If you love ruZZia so much, go sign up for your passport with an express trip to the frontline.
@@TheTruthHzyou lefty’s can’t stand facts can you
@@ChrisRowe-uc8hi NATO isn't fighting in Ukraine, Ivan. Stop watching Россия-1
Слава Україні!