Zelensky Vows to Reestablish 1991 Borders, Including Crimea and All of Donbass

Crimea is fully integrated into Russia. They’ve been a part of the Russian Federation since 2014.

Claiming you’re going to invade Russia in this way is totally insane, and really goes to show just how absurd this Zelensky agenda is.

RT:

Kiev has no choice but to fight to re-establish the country’s 1991 borders, because the world failed to guarantee its security and Ukraine is alone in paying the price of the conflict, President Vladimir Zelensky has said in an interview published on Thursday.

The Economist spoke with Zelensky on December 8, but published an edited transcript only a week later. Just two days prior to the interview, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said a ceasefire based on current frontlines would be a “phony peace” and that Washington will back Kiev whatever it decides to do and how.

Asked about Blinken’s phrasing – “take back territory that’s been seized from it since February 24” – Zelensky told the UK-based outlet that he actually want to restore the original borders of his country, including Crimea and all of Donbass.

“[This] is how it should end because otherwise it is not finished, it is just frozen. Just to leave it as it is now, to say, OK, let’s stop and they take Donbas, the south of our country, or part of it, and Crimea remains with them … Why?” he said. “We will not be able to, no one would forgive it.”

Freezing the war, he said, means the Russians would get time to “become more powerful occupiers, ready for more occupation, and that’s all.”

Just a day prior to the Economist interview, former German Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted that the 2014 Minsk ceasefire was actually a way to “give Ukraine time” to prepare for war.

This is beyond the pale.

If Zelensky ever managed to attack Crimea, the full force of Russia would come down on him. Russia would go “total war” and just draft all men.

What the hell are we even talking about here?

Seriously: I don’t understand.

If you thought this was just about maintaining control of the Donbass before this, you can’t say that now. The US is telling this guy what to do, and he’s telling the world he’s going to turn this border skirmish into a global war.

What is even the explanation for what the point of this all is? Why do people in Kiev care if people in the Donbass – or now people in Crimea – have self governance? Why do they want to force their will upon them?

Why are they willing to die to oppress these people?

It doesn’t make any sense.

The easy explanation is that Zelensky has total control of the media in the Ukraine. But surely, word must have reached the Ukrainians that Putin only wants the Donbass and will stop his war if he is given that?

How is it possible that the Ukraine people are willing to be used as cannon fodder in this war, where if they were to concede the disputed territory, it would have zero effect on their lives?

It maybe made sense at the beginning of the war, but how does it make sense now?

Why would you die or send your children to die, or even deal with not having electricity, so your Jew government can force its will on people in a far-off region where you’ve never even visited?

How is an entire army willing to die for the abstraction of “borders are sacred and permanent”?