By City A.M. Reporter Nigel Farage does not understand the “real world” of politics, and has been likened to a “pub bore” over his claims the West provoked Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. The Reform UK leader claimed “we provoked this war” in a BBC Panorama interview, while drawing a link between Nato and European Union expansion in recent decades and the conflict in eastern Europe. Ben Wallace, the Conservative former defence secretary, is the latest senior political figure to have criticised Farage’s comments. “I think Nigel Farage is a bit like that pub bore we have all met at the end…