2024-10-01 01:57:40
Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson admitted in his autobiographical book Unleashed that in 2021 he considered invading the Netherlands with a military water attack to take 5 million AstraZeneca vaccines against covid-19, after the European Union threatened to ban its export to the United Kingdom. .
In his autobiography – the Daily Mail newspaper published an excerpt last Friday – the former conservative leader tells how in March 2021, after two months of “useless” negotiations with the European Union (EU) regarding the release of 5 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine held in a warehouse in Leiden (Netherlands), called the British Defense Forces to demand action.
Johnson’s plan, as he admitted, was to cross the English Channel clandestinely in inflatable boats, sail through Dutch canals until he reached the “hijacked” vaccines and then leave in a truck.
Finally, after consulting his advisers, the former prime minister rejected the idea, considering an invasion of the NATO alliance “crazy.”
The deputy chief of the Defense Staff, Lieutenant-General Doug Chalmers, assured him that the plan was “definitely doable”, but warned him that it would not be possible to carry it out without being detected by the Dutch authorities.
“If we are found out we will have to explain why we are actually invading the NATO alliance for so long. “I secretly agreed with what everyone thought, but I didn’t want to say it out loud: that everything was crazy,” says the former British prime minister in his book.
The operation was aimed at obtaining vaccines that, according to Johnson, were legally from the United Kingdom, because they were “desperately needed by the British population” and that the EU had treated the Johnson Government “with malice and notwithstanding”.
“(The EU) wanted to prevent us from getting the 5 million vaccines,” Johnson wrote in his book, where he clarifies that the European Commission had started a “legal war” with British laboratories at that time, alleging that the company. not fulfilling its contract with the European institutions.
“Those complaints made no sense,” according to Johnson’s account, since UK vaccine taskforce chair Kate Bingham had signed a “bombproof” contract with AstraZeneca.
At the moment, the British Ministry of Defense has not commented on the situation. Meanwhile, a spokesman for Chalmers – who is now chairman of the government’s committee on standards of public life – said he could not comment on confidential security talks. Page 12).
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