Boris Johnson once denounced the West for betraying the Kurds. Where is he now?

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In August 2014, as the Kurds of Iraq and Syria were menaced by the malevolent fighters of Isis, Boris Johnson appealed to the world’s sympathies. “It would be an utter tragedy if we did not do everything in our power to give succour and relief to those who are now facing massacre and persecution,” he wrote in his Daily Telegraph column. Mr Johnson added that the Kurdish journalist Hazhir Teimourian used to tell him sorrowfully that “there is an old proverb – a Kurd has no friends” (he omitted “but the mountains”).
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The British government, which was reportedly not consulted on Mr Trump’s decision, has signalled its opposition to Turkey’s military intervention. But Mr Johnson, who spoke so piously of the Kurds in 2014, has remained notably silent. Preoccupied with his destructive advance towards a no-deal Brexit, and eyeing a future trade deal with the US, it is perhaps no longer in his interests to dissent. If so, like others who grandstanded as protectors of the Kurds, Mr Johnson will have proved a fairweather friend indeed.

[link:https://www.newstatesman.com/world/middle-east/2019/10/boris-johnson-once-denounced-west-betraying-kurds-where-he-now|

But...but... Trade Deal
Disgusting.