The British billionaire and former boss of Formula 1 insists that the Russian president is … “a first-class man” and “believes he did the right thing” by invading Ukraine
Ready to sacrifice his life for the sake of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin says the British billionaire and former boss of Formula 1 Bernie Ecclestone(!)
“I would accept another bullet in favor of Vladimir Putin,” Ecclestone said, insisting that the Russian president was a “first-class man.”
In fact, he believes that Putin “He did the right thing” ordering his bloody invasion of Ukraine.
“It makes sense,” he said in an interview with Good Morning Britain, in the wake of a Russian attack on a shopping mall in Ukraine that killed dozens of civilians.
Speaking from the sunny Spanish resort of Ibiza, the British Croesus also mocked the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, stating that “he was a comedian before the war, and he seems to want to continue to be.” “If he had spoken to Putin,” the invasion “would have ended differently,” he claimed.
Asked if he believed a change in Zelensky’s actions, instead of Putin’s, could have prevented the war, Ecclestone replied without hesitation: “Absolutely”.
“(Putin) is doing what he thinks is right for Russia. “Unfortunately, like many entrepreneurs, certainly like me, we make mistakes from time to time and when you make a mistake you have to do the best you can to get out of it.”
Asked if he was justifying Putin for the thousands of civilian lives lost in Ukraine, Ecclestone said: “I do not. It was not appropriate – look, at all times America has invaded different countries that have nothing to do with America… I’m sure Ukraine, if it wanted to get out of it (the situation), he could have done it. “
Asked if he had a chance to talk to Putin about the dire situation in Ukraine or if he would urge him to reconsider what he was doing, Ecclestone replied: “No. He probably thought so himself. You probably don’t need a reminder. “
“I am absolutely sure that now he wishes he had not started this whole ‘operation’, but it did not start as a war,” he said.
He also defended Pique who called Hamilton a “negro”
Ecclestone also defended the racist characterization of the F1 legend Nelson Pique to Lewis Hamilton.
It is recalled that in a video that saw the light of day and in which he commented on the clash that Hamilton had with Max Ferstappen of Red Bull at last year’s British Grand Prix, 69-year-old Pique uses a racial insult in Portuguese (s.s. the word “neguinho” which translates as “negro”).
The Brazilian insisted that he had no racist intentions, blaming the translation, but facing an exclusion from the F1 tournament. However, Ecclestone, Pique’s longtime friend, rushed to his defense.
“I have known Nelson for a very long time. I was with him a few weeks ago. It’s not something Nelson would mean by bad… He probably thinks a lot of things he says, and that may upset us or make us look a little offensive… to him it’s nothing. It’s just part of the debate. “
“Nelson would not be distracted to say something bad, for sure. “I think what probably happened, knowing Nelson as I know him, as his daughter is Max Ferstappen’s girlfriend, probably after seeing the accident, probably exploded and pulled it out of him.”
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