The Russo-Ukraine war is a “turning point for the world,” the UK’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Saturday. Speaking at the Conservative Party’s Spring Conference in Blackpool, Johnson described the current time as a “moment of choice” when the world chooses between “freedom and oppression.” Reflecting on the reason why Russian President  Vladimir Putin decided to invade Ukraine, Johnson said he believes it’s not about Ukraine joining NATO or “the semi-mystical guff [Putin] wrote about the origins of the Russian people,” but because Putin was “frightened” of the Ukrainian example of “freedom and democracy and open markets” and in a “total panic” about the prospect of a revolution in Moscow. “With every year that Ukraine progressed—not always easily—towards freedom and democracy and open markets, he feared the Ukrainian example and he feared the implicit reproach to himself,” Johnson said of the Russian leader. “Because in Putin’s Russia you get jailed for …