Speeches by K. Harris and V. Zelensky at the Summit on Peace in Ukraine

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Last weekend, the Summit on Peace in Ukraine was held in Switzerland; of course, US Vice President K. Harris and Ukrainian President V. Zelenskyy took part in this Summit.

Below I am going to comment on excerpts from their speeches.

Spoiler

K. Harris declared

see the official website of the White House.


Actually, Ms. Harris's statement should have been formulated as

I emphasized the words "in the case of Ukraine" in both phrases because the US government acted in exactly the opposite way in the case of the former Yugoslavia.

In 1999, the United States and its allies bombed Yugoslavia in order to force its government to withdraw Yugoslav police and army from Kosovo, where separatists fought by force of arms for separation of Kosovo from Yugoslavia; see the thread The US attitude to Yugoslavia and to Ukraine.

Now I propose to consider fragments from V. Zelenskyy’s speeches.

V. Zelenskyy said

see the official website of the President of Ukraine.

Mr. Zelenskyy constantly repeats about the destroyed Ukrainian cities and villages, but never explains why no missiles etc. fell on Ukrainian cities and villages before 2014, but they started to fall on these cities and villages since 2014.

In any Western article about Yugoslavia, no one begins the story with the fact that in 1999 NATO bombs and missiles began to fall on Yugoslavia. The story about the falling NATO bombs and missiles is always preceded by a description of previous events.

But in the case of Ukraine, a description of previous events would be very disadvantageous for Zelenskyy. Because the Ukrainian crisis began with a completely unnatural phenomenon - with mass protests due to the delay in signing the Association Agreement between the EU and Ukraine. And at some point, the protesters began to burn and kill. But no one in the world would ever burn and kill for the sake of such a trifle as a faster signing of some kind of agreement; see the thread Will they talk about Euromaidan at the Summit on Peace in Ukraine?

Let’s consider another quote from Zelenskyy’s speech on the second day of the Summit.

see the official website of the President of Ukraine.

Since 2023, Zelenskyy has been constantly talking about thousands of allegedly abducted children.

On May 19, 2023, he declared that there are allegedly hundreds of thousands of such children, see the quote below.

see the official website of the President of Ukraine.

However, the UN checked these statements by Zelenskyy and on June 5, 2023 the UN Secretary-General António Guterres in his annual report about children who are in war conflict zones, said the following:

see the official website of the UN.

On the one hand, it is good that Zelenskyy has stopped telling fairy tales about hundreds of thousands of children; but, on the other hand, he does not want to admit that there were only 46 children transferred to the Russian Federation.

In conclusion, I would like to draw your attention to the tone of Zelenskyy’s speeches.

At this Summit too, he instructed its participants in detail what they must do. In my opinion, Zelenskyy was speaking to them like a boss who speaks to his subordinates.

During his speeches, Zelenskyy seventeen times used words which mean necessity, e.g "must", "should", "have to", "need to"; in this regard see the thread Explanation for Ukrainian authorities’ behavior towards Western politicians.

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