Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he wanted talks with a Russian president; however, he hoped that person was someone other than Vladimir Putin. He also called for his country to reestablish its pre-civil war borders.
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria hosted Zelensky for an interview at the World Economic Forum. The event was sponsored by the foundation of Ukrainian billionaire Victor Pinchuk. In his introduction, Zakaria framed the war in Ukraine as "Russia versus the world."
During the interview, Zelensky indicated he was open to talks but wanted regime change in Moscow first. "This war will be over sooner or later. I’m sure there would be some sort of peaceful process, some sort of talks, and we would be discussing the issues of who Ukraine will negotiate, with what president of the Russia Federation." He added, "I hope that will be a different president in the Russian Federation."
The Ukrainian leader said his counterpart was "living in a bubble of alternative reality," and Putin was "not keenly aware" of the situation on the ground in Ukraine.
Zakaria asked Zelensky, "will Ukraine fight until it takes all the territories it lost in 2014?" Zakaria is referring to the breakaway Donbas republics – Donetsk and Luhansk – and the Crimean Peninsula that was annexed by Russia.
Zelensky responded affirmatively to the CNN host’s question. "When Ukraine says it will be fighting to regain its territories it lost, it means Ukraine will be fighting until it gets all its territory back. It doesn’t mean anything else."
During an event last week at the WEF, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger called on Kiev to cede territory to help resolve the conflict. Zelensky responded with harsh criticism of the former American official. "Mr. Kissinger has emerged from the deep past and said that part of Ukraine should be given to Russia to avoid the alienation of Russia from Europe." Zelensky added, "it seems that Mr. Kissinger has 1938 on the calendar instead of 2022."
The actor turned president also used the platform to plead for more weapons. Since Russia invaded, the US has approved or transferred over $50 billion in aid to Ukraine.
Kyle Anzalone is the opinion editor of Antiwar.com, news editor of the Libertarian Institute, and co-host of Conflicts of Interest.
Parroting his masters voice as always. With skyrocketing approval rates for Putin and his government there’s not going to be any regime change in Russia and what zelensky says from his bunkers in Poland and Kiev changes with his incoherent mood swings due to a well documented heavy cocaine addiction.
Its worse than coke, its delusions of omnipotent & lofty grandeur…
O.K.******* But he wants a different president in Russia to negotiate with. Ever the comedian it seems… He probably wishes he had another weaker enemy and that he was, a more commanding, foot taller! Many interesting wishes… Perhaps in the magic kingdom it could happen, but its all quite unlikely in the REAL WORLD!!!!! SO where does he and this saga go from here…????? One thing comes to mind, now is not the time for fantastic wishes. Now is the time for looking for a way-out, not deeper into the furious hell of his own making.
“His own making”? He had a little help from his friends for sure! Obama, Rice, Biden . . all the DC mafia, the military/industrialists, the globalists. Problem is he didn’t get HIGH with that help from his friends, but left behind on a bumpy dusty road to nowhere. Big Z let Ukraine get fleeced big time. His big piece of candy as reward will be the destruction of the nation he swore to protect!
Oh yeah Tom, I agree, but without HIM as the frontman the show would close quickly. And sure, while he talks big and happy of success, Ukraine is being castrated. Just like in Georgia, the U.S.& NATO are right behind him, well….. Till the bear comes out of hibernation and everyone looks around & NO NATO, NO U.S.—- Just the chant… BAD RUSSIA BAD RUSSIA
Well he isn’t asking for a chunk of Russia as compensation. I think he can give way on the Putin has to go demand. He shouldn’t be mucking with the internal affairs of other countries.
HaHaHA!!!
Can’t decide: is he just playing his role for his paymasters or has the ceaseless hero worship gone to his head and he actually believes this nonsense. “Living in a bubble” indeed …
The hard liners who run Ukraine (who actually killed their negotiator) have Zelensky scared to death i would expect.
How even the pathetic EU/USA∕NATO can keep pretending this is serious discussion of an existential situation, completely ignoring all facts, is mind boggling.
The US gov’t seems to think that public opinion, not facts on the ground is the most important gauge of their success. Their followers eat this stuff up.
“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
We are doing business with a crazy person, addicted to the biggest global stage. Surrounded by volatile extremists, running country since 2014. The reign of terror — nobody writes about. Everybody is a traitor in his world. When are we going to wake up.
This volatile mix of deluded politicians, military that for a while have been replacing professional comand with politically reliable right-wingers — has not accimplished anything at all except losing terrotory. Hopefully, nobody still thinks Ukrainian military was responsiblle for Russians departing from Kiev. Ukrainian military has not pushed back Russian forces on any single front, As the entire Azov Sea Coast was taken by Russia, and with it Mariupol, why hasn’t Ukrainian Army pushed back their way to Mariupol. No attempts there. Or when Russia took Kherson — region size of Belgium adjacent to Crimea, why not take it back.
But the most tragicomic is the front in Donbas. Surrounded in multiple locations, with dwindling withdrawal options — Zelenski want them to stay and die.
He is already losing the respect of rank and file — his witch-hunt of “traitors” seem to include soldiers who have bern abandoned by their commanders.
Biden can match Zelenski’s fanaticism any time, although at time may forget the issues at hand.
As Europe is turning 180 degrees in oil issue, while
Russia is patiently waiting as military is disintegrating — apparently what still works in Ukraine is receiving money and weapons. What haplens to money when it reaches Kiev, who knows. What happens to heavy artillery as it gets closer to Donbas, we know. List of daily targets is published by Russian MOD every day. Sure, if not true, why not contradicted?
It is understandable that he wants keep morale high. But it is hard with the desertion rate and thousands being taken prisoners. In every war, news travels fast.
” In every war, propaganda travels fast.”
Fixed. No charge.
Also: “everyone is antiwar, until the propaganda revs up” Lesson learned from Goebbels.
And brain-dead comments like yours flourish in all circumstances, war or no.
Since the duma actually called for this military intervention, I doubt any successor for Putin will ever make any concessions to the neo-nazis in power in Ukraine. As for Crimea, it’s not not going to happen.
US funds AIPAC, NATO, and now Zelenki’s AUPAC. Where do the needy line up for more cash?
You have a point. The Zionists have been gaming Washington for a half century; and domestically ProChoice, BLM, MeToo, AIPAC, Dreamers, Native Americans, LGBTQ+, …, going at it for all their worth. None of these types are authentically grounded or believe in their own cliche’s; they’re just working a con. And it is the prototypical structure of all bourgeois politicians. Thence the clear difference between Putin and Zelensky/Biden/BoJo.
Stop enabling this delusional fool. It’s only going to get people killed, maimed and starved. Zelensky can flee to Great Britain where he and his family have been given citizenship as a reward for doing DC’s dirty work.
putin is 70 years old, he could still hang in there for a while if he wants to
At least by US standards. He’s just approaching presidential age in these parts.
he also has a lot of money and the health care that money buys
Our federal taxes are Zelenski’s spine.
Never in my lifetime did I ever believe I’d agree with Kissinger…not after Vietnam.
Looks like the man has finally come to his senses.
As for ZelBoy’s “demands”, all I can say is 😆😆😆
As for Kissinger, even a broken clock is right twice a day.
It looks like Lindsey Graham had his turn being Zelensky’s puppeteer.
Delusion doesn’t even begin to describe it at this point.
Zelenski must be smoking some very good weed because he is having a delusional fantasy. Ukraine will not exist by the end of the year.
Zelenski got its delusion disease from Donald Trump…!
The article quotes cokehead zelensky but in effect it is the thugs in us state dept who are controlling the narrative.
We are a horribly gaslighted in this nation. While our government was trying to strong arm this nation for big pharma profits Russia had already made its move. Russia has wrapped up its campaign with an economic boost to thier nation. To our misfortune we are living in a socialist nation where the government cannot admit failure and the media is only toilet tissue.
Toilet tissue is useful. The msm is what toilet tissue is used to remove.
So, just where is Mr. Z’s mansion in South Florida???
Probably right next to Guaido’s … need to make it easier to keep track for the State dept …
Miami area I heard.
actually he might not have one in florida but it seems that he does have one in italy:
tinyurl.com/3y536e4e
“He also called for his country to reestablish its pre-civil war borders.”
Right after he resigns and reestablishes the last democratically elected President/Government of Ukraine before it was overthrown by a militant coup, planned, funded, and carried out by foreign interests, e.g., the United States and NATO. That is the reason for the ‘civil war”./
Yes retire President Putin and bring in a hard liner who will flatten Ukraine right up to the Polish border.
He would use Zelensky as a cannon plug and fire it toward the West.
Poor dead Zelensky will not even have remains to bury.
When Z says “pre-civil war borders”, does he mean the 1796 borders when the whole Ukraine was under the thumb of Catherine the Great? He needs to be reasonable, or else he will find his beloved country in ruins with Putin in power.
https://historyofyesterday.com/catherine-the-great-5732eb3451c7
Prewar Odessa is said to have only 116 thousand people. Its supposed to be a beautiful tourist spot famous with Russian tourist. He may be completely sure that some antiship missiles & Russia war aims will prevent Odessa’s future capture & Ukraine forever being cut off from the Black Sea, but little ignorant me,does not.
This clown is going to be defenestrated soon by his Nazi troops, I would guess.
Zelensky lives inside the same media-generated bubble of unreality as Zakaria.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/05/ukraine-arty.html#more
Oh the satire of the little lapdog Zelensky..lol. He will not be alive come July, and if these imbeciles running Ukraine into the ground think for a second that Russia will relinquish anything they are beyond the pale.
Please Russia target all US, EU and UK weapons of terror for immediate destruction…
This sort of talk is a death warrant for Zelinsky. He can’t survive it.
I guess Zelensky would be willing to negotiate with Navalny … over the amount of reparations Ukraine expects from Russia. A couple trillion, I guess, might do the trick, but I doubt the U.S. taxpayer will be getting any reimbursement from Mr Z for the billions we’ve advanced him. But maybe (the least they can do) Hunter will get an increase in his Burisma commission.
check this out:
Zelensky is a Kremlin agent.
So in just two months:
1. Actively spread the West for loot.
2. Strengthened the ruble.
3. In addition to the Crimea, he gave Donbass to Russia.
4.. Turned off the gas at the whole of Europe, sending it to the Middle Ages.
5. Ruined the pockets of drivers, farmers, entrepreneurs and manufacturers in the EU and the US.
6. Since the beginning of the special operation, almost all major competitors from Russia have left, making room for Russian entrepreneurs.
7. He begs for so many weapons that even Scholz said that the Bundeswehr is running out of weapons “for himself.”
8. Collected all the bottom of the Ukrainian Nazi subculture – tattooed, outcasts, idiots, maniacs, murderers from Europe and other countries in one place, where the Russians wet them in packs and promptly deliver them to Bandera.
9. United the Russian people around their leader! Russia has never known such powerful support for the actions of the President and his cabinet during all the terms of his reign.
10. Sent into exile the entire cock elite of the Russian stage and cinema, with pockets full of “wishes” from the grateful Russian people.
Never before has Russia been as good as under Zelensky.
The US government is anti American at every turn…the whole Covid fiasco, and the endless war machine…Thankfully most people have woke up from the Covid plandemic, and now must stop our terrifyingly stupid politicians from starting WW3. American can be great again minus the dark, and serial apparatus in Washington DC.
Zelensky Hopes for Regime Change in Ukraine, Plans To Reinstate Yanukovych
lol lol