Britain's Top Diplomat Doesn't Do Geography or Maps
Good job someone with a smartphone does the weapon targeting
The UK’s top diplomat was caught out by a simple question during talks with Sergei Lavrov; a question which allowed Russia to publicize that mistake via RT and undermine her competence, not once but twice.
The veteran Russian official is said to have turned to Truss and asked whether London recognizes Moscow’s sovereignty over the regions of Rostov and Voronezh, where large troop movements are said to have taken place in recent days, close to the Ukrainian border.
After a moment’s contemplation, the British diplomat reportedly replied that the UK “will never recognize Russia’s sovereignty over these regions.” The interaction is said to have spurred Deborah Bronnert, the UK’s ambassador to Moscow, to swoop in and quietly remind her colleague that the two are actually considered Russian territory even by her own government.
Earlier in February, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova slammed Truss for confusing two different parts of Europe when she proclaimed that London was “supplying and offering additional support into our Baltic allies across the Black Sea” – despite the fact that Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are located over 1,000km away from the southeast European body of water.
“Mrs. Truss, your knowledge of history is nothing compared to your knowledge of geography,” Zakharova wrote on her Telegram channel. She added that the world needs to be saved from the “stupidity and uneducatedness of Anglo-Saxon politicians.”
Do these meetings not come with maps? Or people willing to ask to be shown the regions they are being asked about before they render a judgement or make a decision? Failing that, there’s always “I don’t know, let me check.”
In the ITV segment below, Johnson is shown stumbling through words that have no gravity despite him claiming that “this is the most dangerous moment… in the course of the next few days, in what is the biggest security crisis Europe has faced for decades”.
If it’s that dangerous, why are clowns and shysters doing the talking for us, and why are they running around issuing threats when they don’t even know the lie of the land? What if they drop the bombs in the wrong place?
Again.