Hillary Clinton believes Europe has been “too wimpy” with Vladimir Putin over Ukraine and must be far tougher to stop Russia’s expansionist ambitions, Boris Johnson revealed yesterday.
The mayor of London, who was in New York as part of a six-day tour of the US east coast, said Mrs Clinton believed Russia would try to expand its influence into what was the old Soviet Union, unless it was challenged more robustly.
Mr Johnson, who held talks with Mrs Clinton during a closed meeting on Wednesday, said yesterday that she believed, “Putin, if unchallenged and unchecked, would continue to expand his influence in the perimeter of what was the Soviet Union”.
It is possible that Mr Johnson and Mrs Clinton’s political trajectories may coincide, with them