A graduate of the Clinton Global Initiative’s Oceana project, Symonds pushed Johnson to a full-throated defense of Ukraine, even when his premiership was on the rocks. She figured her husband acting the statesman on the ground in Kiev would shore up his position in the United Kingdom. Having known her personally, she was always this poorly calculating and naive. Boris would be removed from office a few short months later.
But it was the April 9th trip in particular that may have scuttled the peace negotiations, as Johnson pledged 120 new, armored vehicles alongside anti-ship missile systems.
