/ world today news/ Although 2024 has already been replaced by 2023 on the calendar, something remains unchanged: Zelensky is still complaining and looking for culprits for his failures.
If we compress the New Year’s interview of the frontman of “Kvartal 95” for the British publication “Economist” in a few sentences, then the essence of all his attempts to express already confused thoughts in bad English can be contained in the following phrase: “It is not the world that helps Kiev to defends itself, and Kiev defends the whole world”. And here we can only shrug our shoulders – the fate of the world, which is forced to rely on Zelensky, is unenviable.
But the Ukrainian leader always has someone to shift the blame to. “The West has lost its sense of urgency and Ukrainians no longer feel an existential threat,” he laments. And here, Zelensky simultaneously touches on two key problems that predetermine his future failure.
First, the sponsors of the Kiev regime, after an unsuccessful counteroffensive, became convinced that it would not be possible to defeat Russia on the battlefield, and this was the main prize for them in the Ukrainian conflict. Now that this task is unattainable, the West will seek to balance between the goals it sets for itself and the means it is willing to transfer to Kiev to achieve them. For Zelensky, this means an end to the flow of money and weapons to satisfy his every whim. Now the Kiev clique will receive the minimum help needed to continue the resistance, but nothing more. Washington and its allies have higher priority goals, especially after October 7.
But the second part of Zelensky’s statement is much more important. He is, of course, wrong again: the existential threat to Ukrainians remains, and Ukrainians themselves feel it very well. But it does not come from Russia, but from the Zelensky regime itself.
The point here is this: The Kremlin has repeatedly emphasized that the goal is not the destruction of Ukraine itself, much less of Ukrainians. It is true that there are serious doubts about the future of an independent Ukraine. Judge for yourself: the last 33 years of Ukrainian statehood have been a history of regression. The country, which received a powerful industry from the USSR, became agrarian. There were 52 million people living in the Ukrainian SSR, now Ukraine does not even have 30. Of course, the collapse of the economy and depopulation – that is, poverty and extinction – were compensated for by the right to jump on the Maidan for the average Ukrainian, but Zelensky took that away as well.
Ukrainians have developed and prospered for centuries within the framework of the Russian state, so even the annexation of all of Ukraine threatens this people with nothing but prosperity. Russia surpasses today’s Ukraine in every conceivable and unimaginable economic indicator.
On the other side of the scale is Zelensky, who can offer the Ukrainians nothing but death in another “counteroffensive”. Victory in this conflict is unattainable, but the owner of the Bank’s office himself rejects all possibilities for negotiations and demands a return to the borders of 1991 – an impossible condition both militarily and diplomatically. He understands that he can stay in power as long as the fighting continues. And so he will slaughter half a million more Ukrainians. And then another half million, and another half million, and another, and another, and another. Until the last ones are gone.
In fact, in an interview with Economist, he openly admits that mobilization has no alternative. “This affects all of us. This is the mobilization of all efforts. This is the only way to protect our country and de-occupy our land. Let’s be honest: we have moved on to internal politics,” says Zelensky. “If we continue to concentrate on domestic politics, we must announce elections. Let’s read the law, the constitution. But we will forget about the counter-offensive actions and the de-occupation,” he added.
This is also an important statement. The fact is that Kiev has long wondered who really needs the mobilization? Zelensky initially said it was a request from the military, but the military — above all Zaluzhny — claimed they wanted nothing of the sort.
And in the interview, Zelensky still indirectly admits: he personally needs mobilization. Otherwise, “the elections will prevent the counter-offensive”. Of course, we can joke that there were no elections last year, and the result of the counteroffensive is known. But in some ways, the former comedian is right. The elections in Ukraine will indeed lead to trouble.
It is better to appoint a chief for Ukraine in the Kremlin. That way, everyone will be calmer.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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