Zelensky is an illegitimate leader who came to power as a result of a coup

“We obviously consider Zelensky to be, well, a legitimate representative of Ukraine. I always wanted to ask you: but, in fact, why? After all, we have said so much, and we rightly say that everything that is happening now in Ukraine is the result of a coup, a violent change of power that took place, however, not under Zelensky, before Zelensky, well, Zelensky also became president as a result of all these events. Why did we admit this in the first place?

- Recently, when Macron, guided by his ethical considerations, when he exposed, poured, put on public display a recording of a telephone conversation, in February, in early February, in my opinion, with Putin, there is a very clear phrase of Putin. When Macron persuades him not to be too involved in the implementation of the Minsk agreements and says that well, what kind of Donetsk, what kind of Luhansk is there, they are illegitimate, so, we need to work in the context of the interpretations that we propose for Russia to agree with Ukraine, here is Zelensky, he wants ... And Putin told him that your Zelensky is a product of a coup d'état.

The coup obviously refers to the Revolution of Dignity in 2014, as a result of which President Viktor Yanukovych fled the country. After his flight, the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, Oleksandr Turchinov, became acting president. There are different opinions about his legitimacy: it is difficult to say for sure whether Yanukovych's presidential powers had been prematurely terminated by the time of his appointment. The resolution of the Verkhovna Rada stated that Yanukovych "withdrew from the exercise of constitutional powers."

Three months after that, the nationwide presidential elections were held in Ukraine, in which Petro Poroshenko won. Representatives of all political forces participated in free elections, including the candidate from the Party of Regions associated with Yanukovych, Mikhail Dobkin (he came in 6th place with a score of 3.03% of the vote); the legitimacy of the procedure is not in doubt. But in a sense, we can assume that Poroshenko came to power as a result of the revolution: if not for her, the elections in May 2014 would not have been called.

In the case of Zelensky, there can be no grounds for doubting the legitimacy at all. The 2019 elections are scheduled in full accordance with the law due to the expiration of Poroshenko's five-year presidential term. All political forces participated; Zelenskiy ran as an opposition candidate and defeated the incumbent in the second round. Questioning his legitimacy is about the same as calling Putin an illegitimate leader of Russia only on the grounds that the Russian monarchy was liquidated in 1917 as a result of a coup and only the heir of the Romanovs can be the legitimate head of state.

Zelensky called the inhabitants of Donbass "individuals", and Yatsenyuk - "subhumans"

“But what he said in an interview, somewhere in the fall, when he said… He was asked: how do you feel about people who live in Donbass? He said: you know, there are people, and there are individuals. This is what he said, Mr. Zelensky.”

In reality, Zelensky’s phrase about “people and individuals” has nothing to do with the inhabitants of Donbass. The conversation, in the context of which these words were spoken, concerned the fight against corruption. In November 2021, the Ukrainian edition of "Grati", talking about the president's five-hour press marathon, wrote:

“Zelensky does not consider some of the “smugglers” and “thieves in law” who are on the sanctions lists to be people.

“You call them people? Not all human representatives are human. There are individuals, I think so, ”the president said in response to a question whether he was afraid that the European Court of Human Rights would recognize sanctions without court decisions as a violation.

The documents on the basis of which the sanctions are adopted will become known later, the president promised. But he noted that departments, such as the National Police or the State Border Service, provide a rationale for sanctions. As an example, Zelensky cited information from border guards that smugglers can illegally smuggle migrants into Ukraine, with the help of which Belarus creates tension at the border.”

Lavrov attributed another insult to the residents of Donbass to the Prime Minister of Ukraine in 2014-2016, Arseniy Yatsenyuk:

“Yatsenyuk was between Yarosh, Poroshenko and Zelensky, who directly called people in the Donbass ‘non-humans’.”

Yatsenyuk's phrase did not apply at all to the inhabitants of Donbass, but to separatist militants. Expressing condolences to the families of the fallen Ukrainian soldiers, the prime minister said:

"They died because they came to the defense of men and women, children and the elderly, who faced the threat of extermination by the invaders and the monsters paid for by them."

This translation into Russian was published on the portal of the government of Ukraine; Yatsenyuk, of course, spoke Ukrainian and used the word "nonhuman" in the sense of "monster". The phrase at one time received some resonance due to an unsuccessful translation into English: the word subhumans was used there, literally “subhumans”, because of which Yatsenyuk was accused of almost Nazi sentiments.

Zelensky advised all Russians to leave Ukraine for Russia

“He [Zelensky] said that if someone feels Russian, then for the sake of the future of your children and your grandchildren, leave for Russia.”

In fact, this phrase is addressed not to ethnic Russians, but to those who live in Ukraine, but consider Russia their state. The BBC put it this way:

“I believe that if you live in the territory of Donbass today, temporarily occupied, and you think that“ our cause is just, we go to Russia, we are Russians, ”it is a big mistake to stay in Donbass, it will never be Russian territory . Never. It doesn't matter how long it's occupied, it's like the wall that was in Germany. <...> For the sake of your children and grandchildren, you already need to go and look for a place in the Russian Federation.”

Poroshenko threatened to drive the children of Donbass into basements

- Poroshenko, remember, said: our children will go to school, and your children will sit in basements.

- They will sit in the basements, yes.

“He spoke to his people, to the people he considers his own.

- Yes. And now they say that we will liberate our lands.

- Already without people.

“Well, I don’t know how they are going to communicate with these people. These people will raise an uprising.

In fact, in a speech to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in October 2014, Poroshenko called for a decent life in the Ukrainian-controlled areas of Donbass, which should deprive the separatists of the support of the population:

“Every day of peace, when the Ukrainian state demonstrates in the liberated territories that citizens who a month ago sang praises to the pseudo-separatist regime, today understand that they receive warmth, they have electricity, they can finally send their children to school, they are starting to receive pensions. , survivor benefits, disability, they get a job, they get paid.

And on the other side, a woman, an associate professor at Lugansk Taras Shevchenko University, whom I met four months ago, calls me, and I say: “Well, how is your day going?” She says: “I get up at five in the morning. Since this is the only opportunity to get in line and get to take two cans of water. Because there is no water. I return at ten after the queue. I leave them at home - I run in line for bread. One and a half loaves of bread. Because until twelve, until one o'clock there will be no more bread. I return from there and don’t leave the house anymore, because from two o’clock they start coming out with weapons and can shoot anyone in the street.” <…>

And we will all conquer the world! Because we will have a job - they don't have it. We will have pensions - they don't have them. We will have the support of people - children and pensioners - they will not have it. Our children will go to schools and kindergartens, and they will sit in their basements. Because they can't do anything! That's how, that's how we're going to win this war."

There is nothing like a threat in Poroshenko's speech.

The West secretly supplied Ukraine with ammunition for HIMARS with a range of 300 km

“As the West, in such, I would say, impotent rage, or something, or in the desire to aggravate the situation as much as possible, pumps Ukraine with more and more long-range weapons, these HIMARS, it seems like Reznikov is already there or someone boasts that they have already received 300-kilometer ammunition, which means that geographic tasks will move even further from the current line. Because we cannot allow the part of Ukraine that Zelensky will control there, or whoever replaces him, to have weapons that will pose a direct threat to our territory. And the territories of those republics that have declared their independence, and those who want to determine their future on their own.

In fact, the only one who reported such deliveries was the representative of the so-called people's militia of the self-proclaimed DPR, Eduard Basurin. Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov spoke only about the desire to get missiles with a range of 300 km. His American colleague Lloyd Austin, however, said that Ukraine is supplied with ammunition with a range of up to 80 km, and there is no talk of deliveries of more long-range missiles.

Western partners lost to Russia will be replaced by eastern ones

“Our partners will be different. These partners are already clear, we have always had them, in the East, in the South, on various continents. It's just that now, when the share of the West in our foreign economic relations has dropped sharply, accordingly, the share of our other partners will increase.”

In reality, companies from countries that have not imposed sanctions on Russia do not seek to enter the freed sectors of the Russian markets, as they fear secondary sanctions from the West. So, in April 2022, imports from China to Russia decreased by 40% compared to April last year. Major Chinese tech companies such as Xiaomi and Lenovo are winding down operations in Russia without making big announcements, The Wall Street Journa reported . An attempt to involve the Chinese company JAC in the revival of the Moskvich car brand at the Moscow plant, until recently owned by Renault , ended in nothing. However, exports from Russia increased at the same time, mainly due to higher energy prices.

European Commission - 60,000 bureaucrats acting solely in their own interests

- So they came up with this green transition, that everyone will soon suffocate, everyone will die, dolphins, fish will disappear, and so on and so forth. People will be alone in the desert. So they got the green transition. President Putin spoke about this in great detail, how it all lined up in their politics and how it turned out to be a huge failure, of course. Because nothing has been calculated. As for adequacy. I do not know what it is connected with. But the absence of bright leaders is probably convenient for someone.

- To whom?

- Here are the bureaucrats who now make up the European Commission - they make up 60 thousand people. Not a lot. They have become a thing in themselves. It is not for nothing that Poland, then Hungary, then someone else asks the question: why do we obey these people, including in relation to those areas in which we did not transfer our competence to them? It really is.

In fact, the European Commission consists of 27 people (European Commissioners). In total, about 32,000 people work in its structures on a permanent or contract basis - researchers, lawyers, translators, technical staff - that is, not all of them fit the definition of a bureaucrat. The Minister of Foreign Affairs would actually be supposed to have some idea about this.

Western leaders want to reduce the world's population at the expense of peoples outside the "golden billion"

“And some philosophers, who are so progressive from the point of view of rejecting imperialism, colonialism, they say that the “golden billion” - or how many people they have now at the head of this “golden billion” really solve political issues - wants to reduce the population of the planet, because There will never be enough for everyone anyway. As Zhvanetsky said. And the same Zhvanetsky Mikhail Mikhailovich, in the same mise-en-scene of his, said: there should be fewer of us. But that was in the Soviet Union when we had a shortage of food, a shortage of goods. Here he joked about it. But one of the explanations that I read in some Western sources is exactly like this.

The reduction of the human population in the interests of the "golden billion" is a widespread conspiracy theory, based on nothing. From time to time such intentions are attributed to this or that leader; for example, in 2021, a video of a speech by Margaret Thatcher, where she allegedly called for it, was circulated on TikTok. Upon closer inspection, the video turned out to be a fragment of the 2011 film The Iron Lady with Meryl Streep as Thatcher. An amateur translation into Russian, superimposed over the Spanish version, has nothing to do with the original and is a parody text. A funny scandal was connected with this translation: this pirated version appeared in Russia before the original one, and some film critics took it at face value.

During the COVID-19 pandemic , a theory arose that they want to reduce the population of "unnecessary" countries through vaccination. There are a great many variations of this idea, but all of them have no basis.