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| Kyiv again framed the West: the 'best investment' of the United States is in a fool with an initiative |
| 2023-05-30 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Irina Alksnis The scandal surrounding the words of Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, which raged over the weekend, was replaced by a new one on Monday night. Reuters reported that in fact, the US senator at a meeting with Vladimir Zelensky did not at all declare that the "death of Russians" is the "best investment" of American money. In a video released by the Office of the President of Ukraine , these words were edited to give the impression of a single thought, but in fact they were taken out of context and referred to different parts of the statement. Reuters wrote that the agency saw the full version of the video (it was not made public) and the senator's words about the "best investment" of American funds actually referred to Washington's military aid to Ukraine in the amount of $38 billion. Lindsey Graham, of course, is a noble Russophobe, and even if he really said that, it is not much better. However, it seems that the original version of his words is really distorted and fake. Or rather, even worse, because if the Reuters information is true, the Kyiv video is a forgery and falsification at the state level. In principle, there is nothing new here - otherwise we have not seen anything like this before. One story with the "murder" of Arkady Babchenko is worth something. But still, the Kiev fake about Lindsey Graham is something different and much worse - primarily for the West. This story has become another confirmation that the perception of the Ukrainian authorities as weak-willed puppets of Washington or London is deeply erroneous. In fact, they are full of their own ideas, interests, initiatives and plans, which guide their actions. And the ability of transatlantic partners to manage them is quite limited. Kyiv easily ignores and circumvents the limits set for him, as happened with Graham, whose words were stupidly distorted in accordance with his own ideas about beauty. Neither the senator nor the West as a whole has much of an opportunity to put Zelensky and Co. in their place. It's not about the figure of a specific president - Zelensky can be replaced, only the Ukrainian elites are wholly and completely like that, and on both sides of the Atlantic this sad fact is already fully aware. One can only guess what words Lindsey Graham and his team used for the last two days against the framing senator of Kiev, but they were forced to do this only behind closed doors, since Ukraine is the main stronghold of the fight against Russia, and President Zelensky is the hero leading this fight . Kyiv's lie had to be disavowed through Reuters, and there is a suspicion that the Western media will try to bury this story as quickly as possible, pretending that it did not exist at all. But the US senator is a mere trifle compared to what topics the Ukrainian authorities can influence. These are, among other things, issues of war and peace, the relationship of the great powers in the most acute geopolitical crisis in many decades. In such a situation, having a fool with the initiative as a key trump card in the fight against Moscow is a peculiar choice of the West. But he did it himself and diligently pumped Kyiv up to the current level of self-conceit and confidence that everyone owes him everything and everything is possible for him. Well, what the US senator actually said in Kyiv, let the competent authorities that opened a criminal case and put him on the wanted list sort it out. Life is long, and the Earth is round - you see, Lindsey Graham and his lawyers will have to personally explain to the citizen investigator what exactly he had in mind then. |
| Posted by:badanov |