Journalismus, toll!

18. September 2023

Pas­send zum Selen­skyj Besuch in Washington:

Euro­news, kurier.at, derStandard.at, Frank­fur­ter Rund­schau, Ber­li­ner Zei­tung, Tiro­ler Tages­zei­tung, BR, Welt, ORF --

mel­den einen Durch­bruch der ers­ten rus­si­schen Ver­tei­di­gungs­li­nie bei Bachmut!

Die Washing­ton Post,
die New York Times, und
die BBC nicht!

Toll wie das heu­te im Jour­na­lis­mus so läuft!

Und dabei ist es in New York und Washing­ton erst 15:45, die wer­den ein­fach alle noch schlafen!

edit: Die NZZ hat ein ordent­li­ches writ­e­up.

Trotz dem ukrai­ni­schen Erfolg ist nicht zu erwar­ten, dass an die­sem Front­ab­schnitt nun eine gros­se Dyna­mik ent­steht. Bei­den Sei­ten feh­len dafür die Kräf­te. Die Kämp­fe zwin­gen sie aber, bedeu­ten­de Ver­bän­de im Osten statt im Süd­os­ten ein­zu­set­zen: Laut den Ukrai­nern haben die Rus­sen allei­ne im Sek­tor Bach­mut 52 000 von 420 000 Kämp­fern ent­lang der gesam­ten Front kon­zen­triert. Unter Druck im Gebiet Sapo­risch­ja muss­te Mos­kau jüngst Ein­hei­ten ver­le­gen, was ein Fak­tor für den Vor­marsch der Gegen­sei­te sein könnte.

edit: Wo wir gera­de bei exzel­len­ter per­for­mance im deutsch­spra­chi­gen Jour­na­lis­mus sind:

Secu­ri­ty came­ra foo­ta­ge shows that the mis­si­le flew into Kos­ti­an­ty­ni­vka from the direc­tion of Ukrainian-held ter­ri­to­ry, not from behind Rus­si­an lines.

src: click

Zum Ver­ständ­nis, Secu­ri­ty came­ra foo­ta­ge war das was die Medi­en damals flei­ßig ver­brei­tet haben. Weil die Bil­der ja so ein­drucks­voll waren.

Wie, auf die Rich­tung aus der die Rake­te kam hät­ten wir auch schaun sollen?

Im Gegen­satz zu den Bach­mut Mel­dun­gen, ver­gleichs­wei­se unbe­deu­tend im Gesamt­kon­text, aber - f*ck me.

What to best pair hope with

18. September 2023

So, let’s sell hope first:

and then immedia­te­ly pair it with quote:

The level of uncer­tain­ty is the hig­hest it has been in the last three decades.”

I’m quo­ting Domi­ni­que Strauss-Kahn of cour­se, refer­ring to an IMF indicator,

sit­ting next to Lar­ry Fink,

sit­ting next to some fel­low from the Hoo­ver Insti­tu­ti­on, who for some rea­son belie­ves that rei­tera­ting made up tal­king­points hel­ps a gre­at deal (Niall Fer­gu­son) in deba­tes. (“Ukrai­ne can not lose this war, becau­se we can not afford to lose this war, becau­se Putin had infer­red from Afgha­ni­stan that the west was weak, and so we are too weak to fight chi­na, so we real­ly have to win this war.”)

Also this must be the lowest view­ed video of a public appearan­ce of Lar­ry Fink on a panel ever.

320 Views after 8 days. 

Doing not­hing spe­cial, you know… Just hin­ting at a Kore­an solu­ti­on for Ukrai­ne, while the­re are under­to­nes of value added indus­tries not ending up in Ukrai­ne - at least so far.

No big­gie…

Spea­kers:
• Niall Ferguson
Seni­or Fel­low, Hoo­ver Insti­tu­ti­on, Stan­ford University
• Ros­tys­lav Shurma
Depu­ty Head, Office of the Pre­si­dent of Ukraine
• Lar­ry Fink (online)
Chair­man & CEO, BlackRock

May­be should get a few more views, idk.

Also 4 days after Domi­ni­que Strauss-Kahns state­ment, the ECB rai­sed inte­rest rates by 25 basis points.

Gre­at.

Well we haven’t reached 4% infla­ti­on at the EU level yet.

edit: Es gibt aber natür­lich auch wie­der gute Nach­rich­ten. Der Blood and Honor Poet der den Frie­dens­preis des Deut­schen Buch­han­dels für sei­ne Blut und Boden Poe­sie erhal­ten hat - der der den “fal­schen Pazi­fis­mus” als Begriff geprägt hat, der, der im Okto­ber 2020 in der Frank­fur­ter Pauls­kir­che geehrt wur­de - hat jetzt sein eige­nes Panel bei der Vic­tor Pin­chuk Foundation.

Jetzt ist es aber gut, dass er als jemand vor­ge­stellt wird, der unglaub­li­che Arbeit geleis­tet hat mit nor­ma­len Ukrai­nern zu spre­chen, die ukrai­ni­sche Moral zu boos­ten, die Ukrai­ner “foku­siert zu hal­ten”, der sich aber auch wei­ter im Wes­ten enga­giert habe, um Unter­stüt­zung für die Ukrai­ne zu gene­rie­ren, und Auf­merk­sam­keit auf die Ukrai­ne zu lenken.

Kunst­frei­heit nennt man das glaub ich. *HUST*

Was ich aber noch nicht ver­stan­den habe - wie bekommt man die gan­zen klat­schen­den 80 jäh­ri­gen in die Frank­fur­ter Paulskirche?

Die­se Gesell­schaft ist das abso­lut gro­tesk, abar­tigst, ver­lo­genst, hin­ter­häl­tigst, ver­schla­genst Allerletzte.

edit2: Zu Niall Fer­gu­son, sie­he auch: click

Friedensformel, Friedensformel, CNN Moderator *nicknicknick*

18. September 2023

Boris John­son, Peace for the ent­i­re world.

Dan­ke noch mal and den Stan­dard, dass er bis­her immer kon­se­quent “Friedensformel-Gipfel” mit “Friedens-Gipfel” über­setzt hat, denn wie sich im Zuge die­ser Ver­an­stal­tung herausstellt --

hat­te Selen­skyj spon­tan ent­schie­den Sau­di Ara­bi­en in die Koali­ti­on der Wil­li­gen auf­zu­neh­men, weil die Sau­dis sich bei den Ver­hand­lun­gen die AZOW Hel­den (der Vor­tra­gen­de muss sich auf Kom­man­dan­ten kor­ri­gie­ren) in der Tür­kei frei­zu­be­kom­men sehr enga­giert haben.

Da hat sich Selen­skyj also spon­tan ent­schie­den, dass Dschid­da, Sau­di Ara­bi­en der ers­te Ort für sei­nen Friedensformel-Gipfel sein wird.

Bei den Frie­dens­for­mel Gip­feln wird Selen­sky­js zehn Punk­te Frie­dens­for­mel für die Welt dis­ku­tiert, aber immer ein Punkt nach dem ande­ren. Also immer nur einer pro Land, und pro Gipfel.

In Sau­di Ara­bi­en hat man daher über den ers­ten Punkt dis­ku­tiert. Aggres­si­on. Und bei Aggres­si­on waren sich alle Ver­tre­ter der Ukrai­ne und Sau­di Ara­bi­ens einig, dass man das - nicht soll. Und UN char­ta und so.

Der nächs­te Frie­dens­for­mel­gi­p­fel wird statt­fin­den. Bald dann. Und er soll auf jeden Fall im glo­ba­len Süden statt­fin­den, das hat Selen­skyj schon beschlos­sen -- und dann redet man dort über den zwei­ten Punkt der zehn Punk­te Frie­dens­for­mel - und wenn man dann bei Punkt 10 ange­langt ist, geht man in die zwei­te Run­de - und macht dann eine gro­ße Kon­fe­renz, und hat dann Frie­den. Laut dem ukrai­ni­schen Sprecher.

Und eine Frie­dens­for­mel die Selen­skyj und die Ukrai­ne der gesam­ten Welt kos­ten­los zur Ver­fü­gung stellen.

Toll!

Ein Punkt der Frie­dens­for­mel ist übri­gens immer noch “US und den Wes­ten zum Freund haben, die Sicher­heits­ga­ran­tien stel­len”. Punkt 9 nämlich.

Ers­te Fra­ge Fareed Zakaria: 

At what point during this peace for­mu­la will the Ukrai­ne speak with Russia?”

Ant­wort: ”

You know Fareed, I dont belie­ve in media­ti­on… […] And now I posi­ti­on very strong and clear, we not just think about any nego­tia­ti­ons, till the last sol­di­ers in our land”

.
Dan­ke noch­mal an den Stan­dard, dass er alle Friedensformel-Gipfel Pres­se­mel­dun­gen der Ukrai­ne immer kon­se­quent mit “Friedens-Gipfel” über­setzt hat.

Die­se Gesell­schaft ist das abso­lut gro­tesk, abar­tigst Allerletzte.

edit. Oh, and the ten point peace for­mu­la of cour­se was announ­ced as a five point peace for­mu­la previously.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/09/1127421

Oh, and none of this is insa­ne, as 1000 views and 1 blo­cked com­ment on you­tube real­ly can attest to.

But you HAVE to watch it, to get what Boris John­son is say­ing - right?

edit: Es gibt aber auch wie­der gute Nach­rich­ten. Just men­ti­on the inter­na­tio­nal cri­mi­nal court, and watch Anne App­le­baum dis­en­ga­ge wit­hin seconds. 😉 Bei 6 min. in. 

If the­re is a poli­ti­cal will, lawy­ers always find solutions.”

Dimi­try Kule­ba. One for the ages. Here at 27min in.

Meet Kyrylo Budanov, the strategic hero of Charkiw

18. September 2023

and the coun­ter­of­fen­si­ve the­re, “which is now being citied as some­thing which mili­ta­ry his­to­ri­ans will wri­te about and learn from for many years to come.”

Bildschirmfoto 2023 09 18 um 13 48 45

Fran­cis Fuku­ya­ma is also not­hing but impres­sed by this young and exi­t­ing ukrai­ni­an mili­ta­ry leader.

Bildschirmfoto 2023 09 18 um 13 58 26

Thank you Vic­tor Pin­chuk Foun­da­ti­on, for the exci­ting 30 minutes.

edit: Huh. He was con­fron­ted with two “bad­ly rea­se­ar­ched” BS ques­ti­ons, and he jum­ped through both of tho­se hoops. Hm.

edit2: His­to­ri­ans will not learn about this for years to come:

The head of Ukraine’s top mili­ta­ry intel­li­gence agen­cy has con­fir­med, for what appears to be the first time, that Ukrai­ni­an tro­ops in the country’s eas­tern Don­bass regi­on have fired American-made Jave­lin anti-tank mis­si­les at Rus­si­an or Russian-supported for­ces. The­se mis­si­les, along with other advan­ced wea­pons that the Ukrai­ni­an mili­ta­ry has acqui­red in recent years, such as Tur­kish Bay­raktar TB2 armed dro­nes, would be important fac­tors in the out­co­me of any future major mili­ta­ry con­fron­ta­ti­on with Rus­sia. Fears are gro­wing that the Krem­lin could at least be pre­pa­red to launch a new, large-scale inva­si­on of eas­tern Ukrai­ne as ear­ly as January.

Ukrai­ni­an Bri­ga­dier Gene­ral Kyry­lo Buda­nov tal­ked about the ope­ra­tio­nal use of Jave­lins as part of a recent inter­view with Mili­ta­ry Times, which he con­duc­ted through an inter­pre­ter. Buda­nov, who runs the Chief Direc­to­ra­te of Intel­li­gence of the Minis­try of Defence of Ukrai­ne, also known by its Ukrai­ni­an acro­nym GUR MOU, used the oppor­tu­ni­ty to call for more help from the U.S. government as he sound­ed like the alarm about the Kremlin’s unusu­al deploy­ments of lar­ge num­bers of mili­ta­ry units to are­as oppo­si­te Russia’s bor­ders with Ukrai­ne in recent weeks.

src: click

Selenskyj bei 60 Minutes

18. September 2023

Ein­stieg:
“Tonight, the pre­si­dent of Ukrai­ne tells 60 Minu­tes about his despe­ra­te fight with rus­sia, pre­ven­ting World War III, and why his peop­le who have lost so much, will never - deal with Putin.”

Selen­skyj: “Its a dif­fi­cult job, you under­stand me right? Giving awards to peop­le who­se faces show their who­le world has collapsed?”

Mode­ra­tor: “Tonight Scott Pel­ley reports from Ukrai­ne, whe­re he sat down with pre­si­dent Vlo­di­mir Selen­skyj in the capi­tol Kiev.”

Scott Pel­ley: We met Pre­si­dent Selen­skyj as he pre­pa­red to depart Kiev for the United Sta­tes, this week he will speak at the UN and meet Pre­si­dent Biden. It is a cri­ti­cal time. US offi­cials tell us, that over near­ly 600 days, almost half a mil­li­on tro­ops have been kil­led or woun­ded. Both sides, all­tog­e­ther. Part of the cost, so far - of Vla­di­mir Putins unpro­vo­ked inva­si­on. We spo­ke to Selen­skyj. On Thurs­day he told us, that his peop­le are dying every day, to pre­vent World War Three. 

Scott Pel­ley being con­cer­ned about World War III:
Bildschirmfoto 2023 09 18 um 09 14 39

We are defen­ding the values of the who­le world, Selen­skyj said, and the­se are ukrai­ni­an peop­le who are paying the hig­hest pri­ce. We are tru­ly figh­t­ing for our free­dom. We are dying. We are not fic­tion, we are not a book. We are figh­t­ing for real.

Bildschirmfoto 2023 09 18 um 09 17 36

With a nuclear sta­te that threa­tens to des­troy the world.”

Scott Pel­ley: “The United Sta­tes has con­tri­bu­t­ed about 70 Bil­li­on Dol­lars to your war effort [see: CFR: click] and I won­der if you expect that level of sup­port to continue.”

Selen­skyj: “The United Sta­tes of Ame­ri­ca is sup­por­ting the Ukrai­ne finan­cial­ly and I’m great­ful for this. I just think they are not sup­por­ting only Ukrai­ne alo­ne. If Ukrai­ne falls, Putin will surely go fur­ther. What will the United Sta­tes of Ame­ri­ca do, when Putin reaches the bal­tic sta­tes. when he reaches the polish bor­der? He will. This is a lot of money, we have a lot of gra­ti­tu­de, what else must Ukrai­ne do for ever­yo­ne to mea­su­re our huge gra­ti­tu­de? We are dying in this war. Look, if Ukrai­ne falls, what will hap­pen in ten years, just think about it if the rus­si­ans reach Poland -”

Bildschirmfoto 2023 09 18 um 09 23 40

whats next? A third world war?”

Scott Pel­ley: “What will it take? Ano­t­her 70 billion?”

Selen­skyj: “I don’t have an ans­wer. The who­le world has to deci­de whe­ther we want to stop Putin, or whe­ther we want to start the begin­ning of a world war. We cant chan­ge Putin. Rus­si­an socie­ty has lost the respect of the world! They elec­ted him, then reelec­ted him and rai­sed a second Hitler. -

Bildschirmfoto 2023 09 18 um 09 31 29
Bildschirmfoto 2023 09 18 um 09 32 39

THEY did this.

We can not go back in time! But we can stop it here.”

[Glos­sy pro­pa­gan­da Bil­der aus der Ukrai­ne wer­den gezeigt, ich lass die mal weg.]

Scott Pel­ley [Voice over]: Ukrai­ne stop­ped the rus­si­an advan­ce, but at a ter­ri­ble cost. Rui­ned cities. Mil­li­ons of refu­gees. Untold thousands of dead. All for Vla­di­mir Putins nati­on buil­ding vani­ty. Today the war is fought on a 700 mile front. The red area is the 20% of Ukrai­ne, still occu­p­ied by rus­sia. This is whe­re wes­tern dona­ted tanks were sup­po­sed to punch through, cut­ting the rus­si­ans in half.

Bildschirmfoto 2023 09 18 um 09 39 23

But tren­ches and mine­fiel­ds and artil­le­ry stop­ped the armo­red advan­ce. Now its a artil­le­ry duel, with each side firing about 40.000 shells a day. Ukrai­ni­an infan­try is advan­cing, bloo­dy, yards at a time. It’s world war one. With drones.

Scott Pel­ley: “How would you descri­be the figh­t­ing at the front?”

Selen­skyj: “It a dif­fi­cult ques­ti­on, I’ll be com­ple­te­ly honest with you. We have the initia­ti­ve, this is a plus. We stop­ped the rus­si­an offen­si­ve, and we moved into a coun­ter offen­si­ve, but des­pi­te that, its not very fast. It is important that we are moving for­ward every day and are libe­ra­ting territory.”

Scott Pel­ley: “You have about six weeks of good wea­ther left, and I won­der, after that will the front be fro­zen in place?”

Selen­skyj: “We need to libe­ra­te our ter­ri­to­ry as much as pos­si­ble, and move for­ward. Even if it is less than a mile or 100 yards. We must do it. We cant loo­se time. In pla­ces whe­re we cant get through in an armo­red vehi­cle, lets fly. If we cant fly, lets send dro­nes. We mus­tn’t give Putin a break.”

Scott Pel­ley [Voice over]: “If the front is sta­tio­na­ry, ukrai­ni­an dro­nes have vaul­tet into rus­sia its­elf, hit­ting the Krem­lin, war pla­nes and Mos­kow highri­sers. Offi­cial­ly Ukrai­ne does not ack­now­ledge the­se attacks.”

Scott Pel­ley: “The dro­ne strikes in rus­sia are being done on your orders?”

Selen­skyj: “Njiet.”

Scott Pel­ley: “Not on your orders?”

Selen­skyj: “Well, you know - ”

Scott Pel­ley: “How is this happening?”

Selen­skyj: “You know we are not shoo­ting at the ter­ri­to­ry of the rus­si­an federation.”

Scott Pel­ley [Voice over]: “We deci­ded to try the ques­ti­on ano­t­her way.”

Scott Pel­ley: “What mes­sa­ge is being sent with the­se dro­ne strikes in russia?”

Selen­sky: “You do know, that we use our part­ners wea­pons on the ter­ri­to­ry of Ukrai­ne only, and this is true. But the­se are not puni­ti­ve ope­ra­ti­ons, such as they car­ry out, kil­ling civi­li­ans! But rus­sia needs to know, that whe­re­ver it is, which ever place they use to strike ukrai­ne, ukrai­ne has every moral right to send a respon­se to tho­se pla­ces. We are respon­ding to them, say­ing - your sky is not as well pro­tec­ted as you think.”

Scott Pel­ley [Voice over]: “Last win­ter it was ukrai­ni­an skys that were fil­led with mis­si­les. In a rus­si­an bom­bard­ment to des­troy power­plants. Mil­li­ons shi­ve­r­ed in the dark. With win­ter approa­ching again, Selen­skyj had this warning.”

Selen­sky: “They must know, if you cut off our power, depri­ve us of electri­ci­ty, depri­ve us of water, depri­ve us of gaso­li­ne, you need to know, we have the right to do it to you.”

Scott Pel­ley [Voice over]: “Rus­sia takes Selen­skyj serious­ly now, becau­se Putins mass inva­si­on was a fias­ko. The red marks whe­re ukrai­ne stop­ped rus­si­as advan­ce last year.”

Bildschirmfoto 2023 09 18 um 09 57 41
[Die Kar­te ist wie­der aus Kar­ten meh­re­rer Tage “zusam­men­ge­malt” wie auch schon bei Kar­ten des ISW üblich, die die BBC in der Ver­gan­gen­heit ver­öf­fent­licht hat. Dh. es gab kei­nen ein­zel­nen Tag zu dem Russ­land die­se Aus­deh­nung erreicht hat. Nur meh­re­re. Vgl.: click (newsweek.com - timel­aps von ISW Mate­ri­al, max. Aus­deh­nung am 28.03.2022.]

It also marks the stain of rus­si­as war crimes.”

Scott Pel­ley: “Mr. Pre­si­dent, in tra­ve­ling over Ukrai­ne in the past year and a half, we spo­ke to peop­le in bom­bed out schools in Cher­ni­hiv. We’­ve seen des­troy­ed apart­ment blocks in Borod­jan­ka and a bom­bed hos­pi­tal in Isjum. Civi­li­ans in a mass gra­ve in Butscha. The­se are not mili­ta­ry tar­gets. What is Vla­di­mir Putin try­ing to do?”

Selen­sky: “And by choo­sing civi­li­an tar­gets, Putin wan­ted to achie­ve exact­ly this. To break us. This per­son who has made his way with such bloo­dy actions, with ever­ything he has said - can not be trusted.

Bildschirmfoto 2023 09 18 um 10 02 56

The­re is no trust in such a per­son. Becau­se he has not been a human being for a long time.”

Bildschirmfoto 2023 09 18 um 10 04 18
Scott Pel­ley thin­king about Putin not having been a human being for a long time.

Scott Pel­ley: “The rus­si­ans have suf­fe­red grie­vous los­ses. Without resor­ting to nuclear wea­pons, and I won­der if you belie­ve that the thre­at of nuclear war is now behind us.”

Selen­sky: “I think he is going to con­ti­nue threa­tening. He is wai­t­ing for the United Sta­tes to beco­me less sta­ble, he thinks, thats going to hap­pen during the US elec­tions. He’ll be loo­king for insta­bi­li­ty in Euro­pe and the United Sta­tes of Ame­ri­ca. He will use the risk of using nuclear wea­pons to fuel that insta­bi­li­ty. He will be going on threatening.”

Scott Pel­ley [Voice over]: “That US elec­tion he men­tio­ned, worries him, his nego­tia­ti­ons with pre­si­dent Biden have been con­ten­tious at times, but Selen­skyj tends to get what he asks for - even if in Selen­sky­js opi­ni­on - it is gene­ral­ly six moths too late. This week Selen­skyj will press Mr. Biden for mis­si­les with lon­ger ran­ge. Con­gress is deba­ting ano­t­her 24 bil­li­on package.”

Selen­sky: “And if ukrai­ne had enough of the­se modern sys­tems, we would have alrea­dy res­to­red the ter­ri­to­ri­al inte­gri­ty of ukrai­ne. We would have alrea­dy done that. The­se sys­tems exist..!”

Scott Pel­ley [Ein­spie­ler]: “Are you safe here?”

Scott Pel­ley [Voice over]: “We first met Selen­skyj not long after the inva­si­on, when his office was a bla­cked out bunker.

Selen­sky [Ein­spie­ler]: “Be careful!”

Scott Pel­ley [Voice over]: “Now a year and a half later, we noti­ced a dif­fe­rence. As we were set­ting up the inter­view, the for­mer actor used his talent to mask the strain. He smi­led at a com­pli­ment, to his wife.”

Selen­sky: “Yeah… So great.”

Bildschirmfoto 2023 09 18 um 10 15 20
Bildschirmfoto 2023 09 18 um 10 16 50

Scott Pel­ley [Voice over]: “And then instant­ly he see­med pul­led bene­ath a depth -

Bildschirmfoto 2023 09 18 um 10 18 27

no one can know. We dont know what he was thin­king. It loo­ked like

Bildschirmfoto 2023 09 18 um 10 19 42

- EMPATHY -

Bildschirmfoto 2023 09 18 um 10 20 54

For the lost.

Bildschirmfoto 2023 09 18 um 10 21 54

And for tho­se - who might be saved.

Scott Pel­ley [Voice over]: “Our time with Selen­skyj began in silence.”

Bildschirmfoto 2023 09 18 um 10 23 05

A remem­be­rence of the fal­len, during a cere­mo­ny to award medals of valor. Ukrai­ni­an offi­cials tell us, Ukrai­ne and rus­sia have lost their pro­fes­sio­nal armies. Now their for­ces are made up of volon­te­ers, draf­tees and in rus­si­as case - pri­son inma­tes. Selen­skyj counts his dead in casu­al­ty reports each morning.”

Scott Pel­ley [Ein­spie­ler]: “You are the pre­si­dent. It must be humb­ling to meet the­se men, I won­der what they mean to you?”

[Darn Micro Expres­si­ons. Nie kann man sie mas­kie­ren, wenn man sie nicht zei­gen will.]

Bildschirmfoto 2023 09 18 um 10 27 40

Bildschirmfoto 2023 09 18 um 10 29 26

Selen­skyj: “What they, ehm - to me…

Bildschirmfoto 2023 09 18 um 10 31 29

First of all it is a gre­at honor for me. I look into their eyes and -

Bildschirmfoto 2023 09 18 um 10 33 03

it makes me proud, that we have such strong people.

Bildschirmfoto 2023 09 18 um 10 35 10

edit: Kon­text

Becau­se - this is a big risk, a big risk. You can defi­ni­te­ly loo­se your life for the sake of saving other lives. And when I say other lives I dont speak in gene­ral, I mean my own life. The lives of my child­ren, and I under­stand com­ple­te­ly what risks are involved.”

Scott Pel­ley [Voice over]: “That empa­thy for life has Volo­di­mir Selen­skyj reaching out - again. To the United Nati­ons and the United Sta­tes, hoping to con­vin­ce the allies, that the world can be safe, only, when Ukrai­ne is whole.

[CUT]

[Back in the inter­view setup]

Scott Pel­ley: “Can you give up - any part of Ukrai­ne, for peace?”

Selen­sky: “No, this is our territory.”

Scott Pel­ley: “You must have it all? Inclu­ding crimea?”

Selen­sky: “Today - you and I, you said it to me, YOU SAW ME AWARDING PEOPLE MEDALS! Today is a day like that. A week ago I gave awards to par­ents of sol­di­ers who have been kil­led. The­re were 24 fami­lies of the dead. The­re was a woman, she was with three children.

Bildschirmfoto 2023 09 18 um 10 42 12

the­re were par­ents, very old. They could bare­ly walk -

Bildschirmfoto 2023 09 18 um 10 43 21

and they had only one son. 

One of the women was pregnant!

Bildschirmfoto 2023 09 18 um 10 44 27

She arri­ved hol­ding a baby in her arms, and she was pregnant!

Bildschirmfoto 2023 09 18 um 10 45 31

And that baby will never see… what should I tell them? That all of them died so we could say - its OK rus­sia, you can take it all?!

Bildschirmfoto 2023 09 18 um 10 48 14

Its a dif­fi­cult job! You under­stand me, right?! Giving awards to peop­le who­se faces show their who­le world has collapsed?!

And all I can give them, all I can -

Bildschirmfoto 2023 09 18 um 10 49 20

give them - is…

Bildschirmfoto 2023 09 18 um 10 50 21

Vic­to­ry

[Well, bes­i­des the awards of course.]

PROPAGANDA (and a low key death obses­si­on) HAT ABER IMMER NOCH NIEMAND ENTDECKT.

Ich wür­de sagen, nach die­ser Gol­den Glo­bes Award wür­di­gen Insze­nie­rung eines bit­ter­kal­ten Win­ters vor dem Sturm, ich mei­ne Früh­lings - kann die US nicht anders als der Ukrai­ne Rake­ten zuzu­sa­gen, und nach den 24 Mil­li­ar­den auch kei­ne Pau­se im Fun­ding im Wahl­kampf­jahr einzulegen.

Wie sag­te Nuland auf der YES Con­fe­rence vor etwas mehr als einer Woche so schön? Wir sind hier öffent­lich, ich muss dem Publi­kum hier fol­gen­des sagen - die Ukrai­ne soll nicht auf zu viel Unter­stüt­zung hoffen.

Die­se Gesell­schaft ist das abso­lut gro­tesk, abar­tigst Allerletzte.

Auf den mehr­jäh­ri­gen Krieg.