Former UK Prime Minister Discloses Intended 'Raid' on NATO Ally
Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson revealed that he instructed defense officials to organize a raid in the Netherlands to acquire Covid vaccines in 2021. Read Full Article at RT.com
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Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson revealed that he enlisted top defense officials to devise a covert operation to procure Covid vaccines from a Dutch facility during a UK-EU dispute in 2021.
The facility was storing around 5 million Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine doses produced by subcontractors at the Dutch Halix plant. The EU had declined to dispatch them to the UK, prioritizing the needs of its citizens.
In Downing Street, British defense officials met to discuss a potentially “feasible” plan but cautioned about the possibility of diplomatic repercussions, as highlighted in an excerpt from Johnson's memoirs published by the Daily Mail on Saturday.
The proposed operation involved one team taking a commercial flight to Amsterdam, while another would travel at night across the English Channel in small boats, making their way through the Dutch canals to the plant. Their objective was to rendezvous in order to “secure the hostage goods” and then depart via a cargo truck bound for the Channel ports. Johnson noted that the defense officials expressed concerns about the difficulty of executing the plan undetected during the peak of the lockdowns.
“If we are detected, we will have to explain why we are effectively invading a long-standing NATO ally,” one senior defense official cautioned.
Johnson, elected in 2019 with promises to resolve the prolonged Brexit impasse and exit the EU, conveyed his belief that the bloc's leaders had effectively “kidnapped” the vaccines.
“I had come to the conclusion that the EU was treating us with malice and spite,” he remarked, highlighting that the UK was vaccinating its “population much faster than they were, and the European electorate had long since noticed.”
AstraZeneca has since acknowledged in court that its Covid vaccine could lead to blood clots and reduced blood platelet counts in some individuals and has subsequently withdrawn it from circulation globally.
Rohan Mehta for TROIB News
The facility was storing around 5 million Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine doses produced by subcontractors at the Dutch Halix plant. The EU had declined to dispatch them to the UK, prioritizing the needs of its citizens.
In Downing Street, British defense officials met to discuss a potentially “feasible” plan but cautioned about the possibility of diplomatic repercussions, as highlighted in an excerpt from Johnson's memoirs published by the Daily Mail on Saturday.
The proposed operation involved one team taking a commercial flight to Amsterdam, while another would travel at night across the English Channel in small boats, making their way through the Dutch canals to the plant. Their objective was to rendezvous in order to “secure the hostage goods” and then depart via a cargo truck bound for the Channel ports. Johnson noted that the defense officials expressed concerns about the difficulty of executing the plan undetected during the peak of the lockdowns.
“If we are detected, we will have to explain why we are effectively invading a long-standing NATO ally,” one senior defense official cautioned.
Johnson, elected in 2019 with promises to resolve the prolonged Brexit impasse and exit the EU, conveyed his belief that the bloc's leaders had effectively “kidnapped” the vaccines.
“I had come to the conclusion that the EU was treating us with malice and spite,” he remarked, highlighting that the UK was vaccinating its “population much faster than they were, and the European electorate had long since noticed.”
AstraZeneca has since acknowledged in court that its Covid vaccine could lead to blood clots and reduced blood platelet counts in some individuals and has subsequently withdrawn it from circulation globally.
Rohan Mehta for TROIB News
