A headline from 2019:
It’s completely true, and that’s why I was so opposed to Zelensky in that election. He was completely pro-Russian, very subservient to Putin. That’s why he was elected. The hope was that Russians would be appeased by having a Russian-speaking, non-ethnically Ukrainian president who had no interest in Ukrainian nationalism.
And… we all know what happened. Because, as I keep explaining, Russians wage war not in response to any external stimulus, but purely because of an internal need to do so. Whatever you do to appease them or not appease them has absolutely no effect.
If Ukrainians understood that earlier, instead of de-mining the roads that led from Russia into Ukraine to show goodwill and peacefulness, they would be doing the exact opposite in the three years before the war.
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