Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tells CNN that he's "ready for negotiations" with Russian President Vladimir Putin but warned that if they fail "that would mean that this is a third World War." https://t.co/e69OD8DP4d
— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) March 20, 2022
Zelensky is officially threatening Russia with “World War III,” which implies that he is unilaterally committing US/NATO forces to fight against Russia for him.
Either that, or he’s saying that he’s been holding back this whole time, and his forces are ready to advance and encircle Moscow.
Either way – it’s difficult to process how this is being reported uncritically by the entire media.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned of a third world war if peace talks with Russia fail during a television interview that aired Sunday.
Zelenskyy said that “any format” should be used in order to have a possibility of negotiating with Russia, in particular Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“I think that we have to use any format, any chance in order to have a possibility of negotiating, possibility of talking to Putin. But if these attempts fail, that would mean that this is a third World War,” Zelenskyy said.
“If there is just 1 percent chance for us to stop this war, I think that we need to take this chance, we need to do that,” he added.
The president of Ukraine also said that without negotiations, he does not believe the war will end.
“I am ready for negotiations with him. I was ready over the last two years, and I think that without negotiations, we cannot end this war,” Zelenskyy said during the interview with CNN.
In terms of negotiations, Zelenskyy said that he would not give up territorial integrity and Ukraine’s sovereignty.
So then what is the point of negotiations at all?
“There are compromises for which we cannot be ready as an independent state. Any compromises related to our territorial integrity and our sovereignty and the Ukrainian people have spoken about it — they have not greeted Russian soldiers with a bunch of flowers, they have greeted them with bravery, they have greeted them with weapons in their hands,” he said.
In fact, they’ve “greeted Russian soldiers” by locking Ukrainians in cities as human shields, slaughtered their own civilians, and taped a bunch of random “traitors” to poles.
The analogy would be if there was a home invasion, and the father of the house told his kids to go shoot squirt guns at the home invaders, and if the kids tried to flee, he shot them himself.
Or, conversely, if there was an active shooter at a school, and the teachers started shooting kids trying to flee the school.
Watch this video of Azov with their Ukrainian human shields locked in a house:
Who is the “brave” one in that situation? The soldiers who kidnapped helpless, unarmed civilians? Or the civilians obeying orders and cowering on the ground while Azov points guns at them, and mocks them with the piano?
Zelenskyy also said that there would be no war if Ukraine were a NATO member, and repeated his call for the country to be accepted into the organization.
“I’d like to receive security guarantees for my country, for my people. If NATO members are ready to see us in the alliance, then do it immediately. Because people are dying on a daily basis,” Zelenskyy said.
The Ukraine cannot join NATO while in the middle of an armed conflict.
Again, it is just utterly unbelievable that the Western media is willing to report these kinds of statements uncritically.
I think at this point, we’ve gone beyond the coronavirus in terms of the size and scope and the ridiculousness of the lies being told by the media/government.
As far as negotiations – what is the point of negotiations if he’s saying he:
- Will not relinquish territory, and
- Wants to join NATO?
Those are effectively the only terms Russia has offered. Putin invaded the country because Ukraine was moving to join NATO, and was not honoring the Minsk Accords and continued to slaughter people in the Donbass.
So why are we even talking about negotiating?
Obviously, nothing. The statement about negotiations is just as nonsensical as the claim about World War III, the claim about Ukrainian bravery, and the claim about joining NATO while his capital city is surrounded by tens of thousands of foreign soldiers.
This is all just silly. Any attempt to try to find some kind of logic in it will fail.
Zelensky had previously said that he would be willing to cede territory and agree not to join NATO/EU. Now, he’s completely reversed that. It’s hard to say if when he said he’d be open to Russia’s terms, he was going off script, or if he was told to say that just to create more confusion, to then later come out and say there is no scenario where these things are on the table.
I can see either as what happened.
Putin is offering to allow Zelensky to stay in power if he agrees to the two things. So you could see how that would be appealing to him personally. You could also see how his puppet masters would instruct him to say that in order to make the Russians think it was worth pursuing diplomacy.
Right now, Zelensky as President of the Ukraine has a sum total of zero cards. All of this is being manipulated by the Western powers.
At any point, Putin can stop playing nice and start leveling Kiev. The Western media is already blaming him when the Ukrainians kill their own people. They’ve dialed up the atrocity hoaxing past max volume, so if Putin wanted to start leveling city blocks in Kiev, the media couldn’t report anything differently than they already are.
Putin views the Ukrainians as brothers and doesn’t want to kill them.
But last night, he demonstrated what could happen.
Just now: missile hit in #Kyiv again. The #russian troops continues to destroy the capital. Apparently, they hit the mall and several residential buildings. pic.twitter.com/NHYYk0JnUA
— Inna Sovsun (@InnaSovsun) March 20, 2022
After Iskander strike on Kiev shoping mall pic.twitter.com/9Jz39zw3av
— ZOKA (@200_zoka) March 21, 2022
Aftermath photos of Russian attack a shopping mall in Kyiv. Dün gece Kiev’de bir alışveriş merkezine düzenlen saldırının arkasından bu yıkım oluştu. pic.twitter.com/bLRVRf6Ctt
— Mustafa Deveci (@MustafaDeveci58) March 21, 2022
Massive explosion this night in #Kiev: the parking lot of the Retroville shopping mall attacked by Iskander/Kaliber missiles. Area totally flattened. pic.twitter.com/Vd6XufDkLn
— Alfonso Poza (@alfonso_poza) March 20, 2022
Zelensky, the creepy-ass Jew in a t-shirt, is out there like that doll from Saw saying “do you want to play a game?”
Putin’s response is unambiguous.
Putin obviously has assurances from China.
Which is why the US is now saying they will have a war with China.
How you’re going to have a war with China when your entire economy is based on exports from China is not clear.
Maybe Western leaders are just pretending to be insane?