Maduro called Starmer an "obsessive madman" for making statements about preparing for war

On June 2, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro criticized British Prime Minister Keir Starmer for speaking about London's transition to a "war readiness" regime, calling him "distraught" and "obsessed."

"Can the prime minister of such a powerful state as Great Britain be in his right mind when he says that he is preparing for war? Is it ethical, is it moral, to want war? Humanity does not need war, humanity needs peace," Maduro said in his weekly TV program With Maduro +, which was broadcast on his YouTube channel.

Maduro asked a rhetorical question about who exactly the British authorities were going to fight. He noted that such statements sound "especially dangerous" in the year of the 80th anniversary of the Victory over Nazism, from which the soldiers of the Red Army liberated Europe.

"[The world must raise] a powerful social movement against the militarism and militancy that this crazed, possessed, demonic Prime Minister Starmer is calling for," Venezolana de Televisión quoted Maduro as saying.

According to him, the British people do not share the opinion of their prime minister at all, as Starmer makes such statements on behalf of the "exhausted elite" who benefit from the production of weapons.

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On June 2, Starmer said that as part of the new defense strategy, London is moving to a "war readiness" mode. He noted that by 2035, Britain should become "10 times more deadly." On the same day, the leader of the French Patriots party, Florian Philippot, announced the need to stop Starmer after his words. The State Duma reacted to the words of the British Prime Minister, calling them an attempt to disrupt the Russian-Ukrainian negotiations.