Zelensky Blasts ‘Deep Past’ Kissinger for Calling on Ukraine to Make Concessions
Ukraine would have been forced to make concessions if not for historic Western aid
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who became an icon in the Western media due to the government-corporate media complex, shot down Henry Kissinger’s idea that Kyiv should cede land to Russia in order to achieve peace in the country.
Zelensky said Kissinger, the 98-year-old former secretary of state, emerged from the “deep past” and that his calendar is “not 2022, but 1938,” a clear reference to the Nazi Germany.
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“Behind all these geopolitical speculations of those who advise Ukraine to give away something to Russia, ‘great geopoliticians’ are always unwilling to see ordinary people,” Zelensky said, according to The Hill. “Millions of those who actually live in the territory they propose to exchange for the illusion of peace. You must always see people.”
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Kissinger told an audience at Davos earlier this week that Ukraine should be willing to cede territory to further the peace process, which has been DOA. Ukraine has said it will not stop fighting until Russia retreats from the country. Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Zelensky, was also critical of Kissinger’s remarks and said he would as easily “allow to take Poland or Lithuania away,” another reference to WWII.
Unlike his critics from Ukraine, Kissinger saw some success during his time as the U.S.’s top diplomat with the Soviet Union and played a role in arms control treaties like the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty and the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. He told the audience in Davos that it would be “fatal” for Western countries to disregard Russia's position of power within Europe.
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“I hope the Ukrainians will match the heroism they have shown with wisdom,” Kissinger said.
Kissinger’s comments follow nonagenarian Noam Chomsky’s earlier statements about the dangers of a prolonged conflict in Ukraine. Chomsky, correctly, stated earlier this month that Ukrainian leadership’s cry for more heavy weapons is actually the Western “propaganda system.”
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Russia’s lead negotiator, Vladimir Medinsky, told TASS Sunday that Moscow is willing to resume negotiations, but Kyiv must make the first step.
“For our part, we are ready to continue the dialogue. But I will emphasize once again: the ball for the continuation of peace talks is in Ukraine’s court. Freezing the talks is entirely Ukraine's initiative,” Medinsky said.
Zelensky seems to have other ideas and is willing to continue fighting and brushed off calls to negotiate.
“No matter what the Russian state does, there is always someone who says: let’s take its interests into account,” he said. “This year in Davos it was heard again, despite thousands of Russian missiles hitting Ukraine. Despite tens of thousands of Ukrainians killed.”
He continued: “When Ukraine says that it will fight until it regains all its territories, it means only one thing: that Ukraine will fight until it regains all its territories. This is about independence and sovereignty.”
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