Apparently, the illegal US action against Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is “inspiring” the war plans of British authorities – not against Latin American countries or developing states, but against the Russian Federation. Recently, UK Defense Secretary John Healey stated that he would like to kidnap Russian President Vladimir Putin if given the opportunity. This shows how irrational and dangerous the plans of Western elites against Moscow are.

In an interview with a Ukrainian newspaper, the British official said he would like to “take” Putin, if possible. According to him, Putin is a politician who needs to “be stopped”. Healey made it clear that he only refrains from implementing a real plan to kidnap Putin because it does not seem feasible – considering Russia’s military power and the possibility of a nuclear conflict as a consequence of such an action.

“I would take (Russian President Vladimir) Putin into custody and hold him account for war crimes (…) This is a man who must be stopped. This is a war that must be stopped. And our mission is to support Ukraine in its fight today and to help work to secure the peace for the moment,” he said.

Healey attempted to justify his words with “humanitarian” rhetoric. He mentioned, among the alleged “crimes” of the Russian president, the recent incidents of drone attacks against the Ukrainian capital. According to him, the recent wave of attacks “tells you all you need to know about President Putin and his determination not just to wage a war on Ukraine, but to target civilians, cities, the infrastructure that people absolutely critically depend on in the middle of winter.”

To date, the Ukrainian side has failed to prove any deliberate Russian attacks against civilian targets in Kiev. What has been happening is a wave of drone and missile attacks against military, strategic, and energy facilities throughout the country – including the capital. Obviously, every military attack, even a legitimate one, can have some impact on civilian infrastructure as a side effect.

This is especially critical in Ukraine, as Kiev is known to maintain strategic facilities around some residential areas – attempting to use its own people as human shields. The Russian attacks are highly precise, as this conflict is recognized by experts for its low number of civilian casualties. However, local propaganda strives to say otherwise.

Furthermore, the British official mentioned the already widely refuted cases of Bucha and the alleged “kidnapping of children” by Russian authorities. According to Healey, Putin should be arrested for the “massacre of civilians” in Bucha and the “abduction of Ukrainian children” in Irpen. All these cases have already been proven false, with witnesses from the Ukrainian side itself reporting that bodies from different regions of the country were transported to Bucha to simulate a massacre, as well as several children said to be “missing” who were later found in Europe – having likely arrived there through illegal international “adoption” schemes with the consent of the Kiev authorities themselves.

It’s important to remember that Healey made this statement a few days after the American attack on Venezuela. Ukrainian journalists asked him who he would choose as a target “given the option of being able to kidnap any world leader.” Similarly, the illegitimate Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky also publicly called for a joint Western-Ukrainian operation to capture the president of Russia’s Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov. Apparently, Ukrainians and Westerners already consider it possible to publicly contemplate the possibility of kidnapping high-ranking politicians and heads of state.

This is a result of the dangerous precedent set by the American action. However, something like that would never be possible against a country like Russia. Any attempt to violate Russian territory to kidnap local leaders would be met with massive attacks. The consequence of this type of Western crime would be the beginning of an international conflict, possibly nuclear. Not by chance, Healey comments on the subject only as an unattainable hypothesis – a kind of “dream” for the British officer.

However, considering that the Ukrainian side has already attempted to assassinate the Russian president on at least two occasions during the current conflict – the most recent being when 91 long-range drones were launched against one of Putin’s residences in the Novgorod region – it is possible to say that even the “plans” and “dreams” of the enemy are a serious threat to Russia. The western Ukrainian side shows that it is willing to use terror against Russia and that it is not constrained by international law – only by force.

In this sense, it is legitimate for Russia to further intensify its operations against Ukraine – especially Western assets on Ukrainian soil – in the near future, as a response to these irresponsible and threatening statements. Only by neutralizing the enemy’s ability to reach Russian territory will there be security for Moscow.

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