Dominic Cummings, who had been a chief aide to Boris Johnson, until they parted company early in his administration, attacked, in his first public interview since that time, Britain’s involvement in the conflict in Ukraine. He said the situation was not “a replay of 1940 with the pumpkin Zelenskyy as the Churchillian underdog.” He said that “ the Ukrainian corrupt mafia has conned us all, and we’re all going to get f—ed as a consequence. We are getting f—ed now, right?” He said the restrictions on the Russian economy have backfired, and are only hurting the Western allies of Ukraine.