A Conversation With President Zelensky
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- Опубликовано: 3 июн 2024
- Five years ago, a TV personality and comedian, Volodymyr Zelensky, won the presidency in Ukraine in a landslide victory. When Russia launched a full-scale invasion of the country three years later, he faced the biggest challenge of his presidency and of his life. Despite initial success beating back one of the world’s largest armies, the tide has turned against him.
Andrew E. Kramer, the Kyiv bureau chief for The Times, sat down with Mr. Zelensky to discuss the war, and how it might end.
Guest: Andrew E. Kramer (www.nytimes.com/by/andrew-e-k...) , the Kyiv bureau chief for The New York Times.
Background reading:
• Read The New York Times’s interview with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine (www.nytimes.com/2024/05/21/wo...) .
• Explaining the debate over Ukraine’s use of Western weapons (www.nytimes.com/2024/05/30/wo...) .
For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily (nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-t...) . Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.
the republican party has become a pathetic pawn of russia, what a sad state of affairs after such optimism in ukraine
I believe Zelensky needs to make a national address and ask the Ukrainian people if they truly believe in national freedom and independence or even if being Ukrainian is something worth fighting for. I absolutely believe it is as a Hungarian American whom father came here after the 1956 revolution.
Mr. Zelensky is not the president of Ukraine, but Mr. Nobody. His term of presidency ended on May 20, 2024. Now he is just a dictator and usurper of power.
They suspended democratic elections and banned opposition parties, so a national referendum is probably out too
Wait, what, why? Zelensky makes a national adress every day. And have you seen the polls? After three (successful) revolutions and more than two years of fierce resistance and defense against a terrible enemy, there are no people on earth that have made their commitment to independence and self-determination more clear than Ukrainians have.
Among other things, Russia views this war as a proxy war against the democratic West. Aid to Ukraine is critical to maintaining the integrity of a greater Europe. Unfortunately, while the US perceives a nuclear threat from aiding Ukraine (which Russia continually exploits), it does not appreciate the more serious threat Russia would pose if it were to overrun Ukraine.
Could we please have a deep dive into "journalistic activities" and or precisely how it influenced public perception ?
Now, I know that interviewing people in Russia versus Ukraine is very different in how people can openly speak.
And as much as this is an atrocious war, it is different to Israel and Gaza where no journalists are allowed. .
Could we have a "comparison" episode please?
Ukraine has done a formidable job fighting with both hands behind its back against a much bigger bully since the beginning.
I am soooooo embarrassed by how America has abandoned the courageous Ukrainian people who have sacrificed so much against this bully gangster, Putin.
I am absolutely *incredulous* that the GOP- or any American!- would publics support this despot... but what a surreal period we live through...
My mom worshipped her father- a WWII veteran who gave so much against this style of fascism... yet she sees no conflict in supporting Trump.
The absolute surrealism!!!!! Lord help us.
Ukrainians are not brave, stupidity is the name of letting USA use your people to fight their war 😢😢
To be fair, the Iraqi insurgents and the Taliban did a formidable job fighting against a much bigger bully... in the wars of aggression supported by Joe Biden.
Bah, all be good.
❓And whether Zelensky became president legitimately, let's look at the constitution of Ukraine:
🗝Initiating regular presidential elections in 2019 without ensuring the electoral process in Donetsk, Luhansk regions and Crimea is a violation of the Constitution of Ukraine Articles 69, 71, 92 p. 20 and the Law "On Presidential Elections of Ukraine" Chapter I.
‼ And if you dig deeper:
🗝According to Section V, Articles 102-112 of the Constitution of Ukraine, which clearly indicate the legal norms of the president's stay in office, on February 22, 2014, President Yanukovych was removed from the post of president illegally, unconstitutionally, and criminally ignoring the norms of the Constitution.
⚙This is a usurpation of power, a criminal anti-constitutional conspiracy, a coup d'état. Yes 100%. And democracy is resting.
Is he really even still president, after canceling elections?
When a fish wants its own bowl to live from the river.
Russia is just Muscovy rebranded to sound like it should own Kyiv. Ivan the Terrible did that just before bludgeoning his son and heir to death. Start as you mean to continue said those that run the Kremlin. The Kremlin remains the oldest vampire squid on the planet, still using its tentacles to suck the life out of the Russian provinces, Russian neighbors and anything else it can...
Actually, Ukraine is a sovereign nation recognized by the UN in 1945. The Russian Federation was only recognized as a sovereign nation in 1991. Ukraine was a founding member of the UN.
But who cares about actual history. Propaganda is more important, right?
So you're running the ethno-nationalist idea: The "river" is Russia and Ukrainians are the "fish" in your analogy. They're all Slavs so the Ukrainians are little Russians, so they really belong to Russia... That's some heavy gaslighting buddy. Is that how you convince people you're their friend or relative?
I guess you believe in Russian Peace: the same concept that the 1930s German right wing called "Living Room". Same concept. Same idea for the people who live inconveniently in the way of your grand Utopia of jackbootery.
A little tip that too few even suspect: Russia is merely Muscovy rebranded 500 years ago to sound like it should own Kyiv. Ivan the Terrible did that just before bludgeoning his son and heir to death. Why? He wanted Muscovy to be respected, to be European, to sound like it had a tradition dating back a thousand years and not the little upstart that it really was. So it started rewriting history all that time ago to claim a heritage it didn't really have any credit to claim. It didn't control Kyiv: that would take hundreds of years after it stole the old name of the Kyivan Rus empire.
But "start as you mean to continue" said those that run the Kremlin. In the language of the Muscovites of course. A language not related to the Rus. No. More related to Bulgarians than the Ukrainian language which is similar to Polish and Belarussian. Remember Belarus was "White Russia". And the land of Kyiv was called "Russia" back in the 12th century. No wonder the Kremlin coveted that territory so much and wanted to erase every other history so they could enforce their own chosen tale. That tale is now gospel for so many Russians and Russian historians around the world. But foolish people: the internet came along and it is now too easy for people to sleuth out a clearer history that shows a very different path that gets suppressed.
The Kremlin remains the oldest vampire squid on the planet, still using its tentacles to suck the life out of the Russian provinces, Russian neighbors and anything else it can.
@@joythought I absolutely agree, and make excellent points, but this is youtube comments, not a PhD defense. Two paragraphs maximum.
Just a helpful suggestion 🙂
@@joythought you are right. Are the Ukrainians just as nationalistic as the Nazis? As an American born Vietnamese man, I understand that fighting a fight half a world apart, and in a region ruled by Russian dominance, your ideology and that of the UN is a losing war. What do you think is going to happen in Tawain. They might as well join China to save lives and not break nations financially. Their house is full of support of China and only the President and their supporters are against them. Thus fishes in a bowl.
This simplified analogy is disturbing but that is the truth no matter how much political history you spin it.
The reality is that people live in a region ruled by the Government. To fight that is poor judgement and suicidal. Through so called proxy wars no Tax payer wants to pay for all that destruction when said war has nothing to.do with any tax payer.
Ok I am.a dumb tax payer that doesn't want to give Ukraine billions of dollars to a losing and forever proxy war. I say let Ukraine go. I don't care. My taxes no bombs. You are better off to immigrate.
Look what happened to Afganistan, and the Vietnam War. The world is like a ocean of rivers and to set up a bowl next to a river is suicidal and fishes don't live long in bowls.
Yanukovych is a way better President than Zelensky!
A corrupt Russian puppet. Good one Kremlin gremlin.
Well yeah, as bad as Yanukovich was, at least he did not get his country involve in a devastating war.
Lol Russian propagandist
@@blacknrd05 Lol CIA propagandist
@@blacknrd05 Really? Under President Yanukovych, the country's population was four times larger than it is now. Under President Yanukovych, Ukraine's foreign debt did not exceed five times its annual domestic product as it does now. Under President Yanukovych, the Ukrainian currency was worth 8 hryvnia per US dollar. Now it is worth more than 40 hryvnias per US dollar. Five times more. But paid propagandists are not interested in such boring figures.
After the war his family will go tl Spain, or Latin America
Does he want more money? Is that why he is doing another promo tour?
Yes he needs more money and I hope that he gets it!
The Russian trolls are out
@@myroslavabasladynsky4937ummm thanks? I don’t see how I am a Russian troll simply by asking why my tax dollars are paying for the war between two corrupt governments.