Somewhere I have heard it

Stories that Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a mediocre comedian that he has no support within the country, that time runs out that Ukraine still exists only through American assistance, and most importantly – that Ukraine did not need to start war (“Russia does not start” ), which had to negotiate at the beginning, not to fight, and that Ukraine “herself” – I heard all this long before these theses voiced Donald Trump.

We were told by Russian interpreters and guardians, when I was in Russian captivity, in particular-in the Luhansk pre-trial detention center. Particularly complete set was issued by employees, whether the FSB or the military counterintelligence (no one on the interrogations, of course, were represented).

They did not say anything about the illegitimacy of Zelensky and the lack of elections-they did not speak yet, because it was a hot summer of 2022, and for these theses it was early: their Russian TV would spread only a year and a half. And these Russian invaders and their colaboration associates (on the slang there are simply “trace” and “Musora”) voiced another thesis, missing in Trumpy verbal stream: that Ukraine is nothing more than the US puppet that Kiev does everything that it wants Washington, because it depends entirely on it. Not surprisingly, Trump did not voice this thesis: the last development of events, in particular – around the agreement on the extraction of rare fossils, showed even those who adhered to this thesis that it was far from true.

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I think that this thesis of the occupiers did not find confirmation, and caused such annoyance of the newly elected President of the United States. Obviously, not believing in freedom, initiative, possibility of independent actions, agency of Ukrainians and Ukrainians (as, however, any other people), he unexpectedly faced the fact that these, as some of the Ukrainian subordinates in distant wild lands-did not subordinated, and not subordinated, and for some reason do not want to accept the rules of the game already fictional already on the playground and imposed blackmailing – because they are obviously illustrifying.

This unites Trump with Putin: he also does not believe in the agent of peoples and teams, considering them only as inert masses that need to be manipulated and which need to be controlled – because they move primitive instincts, and there is always a risk that someone will intercede the initiative and depict them better.

Actually, Ukraine for Putin is a tool that should keep a two -headed Russian coat of arms in the paw, and instead the event was shook; And one of the goals of the present war is to take it back. The fact that the “instrument” suddenly revealed its own will, its own desires and desires, and even the ability to resist, is extremely striking the Kremlin, because it does not fit into the picture of the “Russian measure”. And the guards, and especially the Russians, surprised and, sometimes, the fact that there was a Maidan in Ukraine – and most Ukrainian prisoners were not going to recognize it with a mistake or failure, but defended as an act of free choice, expression and protection of dignity.

In the days of the 11th anniversary of the murder of the majority of Heavenly Hundred Heroes, these two autocrats, with their contempt for the will and aspirations of peoples and personalities (if these personalities are not themselves), openly showed the world as many in common. The US President, the highest official in the state-yesterday of Ukraine’s largest ally in its defense-liberation war with Russian invaders: Publicly accused in the aggression of those who were attacked; He condemned those who protect against the violence of the Russians for attempts to defend themselves; and He gave all the initiative In peace negotiations, his visa with a similar picture of the world, a military criminal and the head of the Russian Empire.

For a person with my experience of the former prisoners of war, he did it in the style of mediocre investigator of Russian power structures, such as the FSB, SCF or Fsin Russia. Never, probably, the text of the Russian security forces sounded from such a high podium and did not spread the whole world.

If you are lucky (yet) not to visit Russian captivity but not lucky with information Gigen, and you are familiar with the Russian TV – you will probably have another analogy. The text voiced by Trump literally broadcasts Russian propaganda: from the mouth of the head of the White House Donald Trump says Russian propaganda Olga Skabev, or one of her colleagues. However, the audience of this special issue “60 Minute” (propaganda TV show with the participation of Skabeva) became the whole world. I do not think that the Kremlin, who generously pays for the work of his propagandists to ensure and expand the genocidal war of Russia against the Ukrainian people, will have enough budget for a fee to his new American corner. To believe that Trump, who is divorced the longest and most excited about money, decided to pour Simonian, somehow does not fall out. Obviously, we will learn about his interest later.

I do not know what it looks like for American voters – but not only them, but we all have to get used to the idea that at the head of the greatest stroke of the world they have been put by a person who speaks as a Russian security officer or as a Russian propagandist. There is a distance between words and affairs, but it is increasingly declining. If the White House head begins not only to speak, but also to act appropriately – we will find that on the opposite side of the barricades on the worldview of Hrushevsky’s outlook, in addition to the Russian Moloch, American Vaal also appeared. I want to hope that this will not happen, although the process has already begun: the submission of Trump, the world media is already discussing who actually started the war of Russia against Ukraine, whether Ukraine could make peace at the very beginning of the war, and whether the dictator is a democratically elected president of Ukraine . Devil work (because we remember who is the father of lies, especially – such flashy and large -scale) goes in full.

We remain like 11 years ago, Do not forgetwho we are, for which we are doing this struggle, believe into their values, meanings and those who give strength to continue this struggle (people and/or god, who are relevant), hope on them, and love them and each other, protecting this love And what is important. We still do not have the best option and cannot be.

Maxim Butkevich

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