However, his biggest mistake is certainly that he appeared in Kyiv only 24 hours after the leaders of France, Germany, Italy and Romania were there to talk together about Ukraine’s wishes for EU membership, which drew the world front pages. If Johnson wanted to show how Britain’s role in the world has really changed and not for the better, he could not have found a better way to do it. Do he and his advisers seriously not have a sense of perspective and a bigger picture?