The one who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom between 2019 and 2022, Boris Johnson has confessed in his memoirs to having raised the idea of “invading” the Netherlands to get a shipment of AstraZeneca vaccines for COVID-19 that the European Union had held there. This is how he explained it in his book, ‘Unleashed‘(Unleashed), published today in the British newspaper Daily Mail.
Although only a small part of the book is revealed, the intentions of how, the then British premier, wanted to invade an allied country to get vaccines. Just a year after that event, Johnson had to resign due to the terrible management of the pandemicin addition to the scandal of their private parties a Downing Street.
A “certainly feasible” plan.
When Johnson consulted his idea with the UK Deputy Chief of the Defense Staff, Lieutenant General Doug Chalmers, he was told that it was “certainly feasible”. In these memoirs collected by the Daily Mail, the plan is detailed to take the vaccines from a warehouse in the city of LeidenNetherlands.
The plan was to cross the English Channel stealthily with inflatable boats until reaching the Dutch coast. once there surf the channels until they managed to reach the warehouse where the vaccines were located and take them back to the United Kingdom. They were some 5 million doses which, in the words of Boris Johnson himself: “Britain desperately needed”.
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Finally, after consulting with his cabinet, he assumed that the idea was a “craziness“because it was necessary to clandestinely invade a country allied to the I’LL TAKE.
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