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Johnson already starting to be exposed for being in a role he is completely unsuited for:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/oct/15/russian-ambassador-protest-embassy-boris-johnson

Yakovenko, who was appointed by Putin in 2011, writes: “The novel way of diplomacy proposed by foreign secretary Johnson has so far materialised in a lone gentleman with a poster outside our embassy – not something I would describe as a big diplomatic victory. But the very fact of having to resort to (non-existent) campaigners to make a point is, in my opinion, a sign of the state of Britain’s Syria policy.”

It doesn't all happen with a flop of the fringe and calling up some fellow Old Etonians in international diplomacy:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/russian-warships-set-to-sail-through-english-channel-amid-syria-tensions-a3370081.html

It's like Putin swatting a fly.