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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Emily Atkinson

Putin’s ‘macho’ Ukraine war is ‘toxic masculinity’, says Boris Johnson

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Boris Johnson has claimed that Vladimir Putin would not have launched his “crazy, macho” attack on Ukraine if he were a woman.

The prime minister said the Russian president was a “perfect example of toxic masculinity” as he joined Nato leaders in Madrid to discuss a radical overhaul of the western defence alliance.

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