It would be a shame if his Florida mansion were to burn down, no?
Both Alexander Mercouris and Moon of Alabama picked up on The Economist’s interview with Zelensky yesterday. Both took Zelensky’s words to be a direct threat that, if tangible support—meaning, weapons and money—for Ukraine fades, Ukrainians living in the West might retaliate with a terror campaign of revenge against the West. There are many, many millions of Ukrainians, both in Europe and in North America, and it only takes a relatively small number of persons to launch such a campaign. As should be well known by now, Ukrainian nationalists have a long history of terroristic style attacks, ranging all the way up to serious attempts at genocide. It was precisely this proclivity for intimidation and outright terrorism directed at non-Ukrainians within the Ukraine that was created by the USSR that led to the present conflict. Ukrainian missile and artillery attacks on purely civilian targets are an everyday occurrence in the Donbass—estimates of deaths over the years since 2014 range up to 14k. All this is simply to say that these threats by Zelensky—while couched in terms that supposedly envision a grass roots campaign of terrorism, not a state sponsored one—should be taken seriously. Zelensky’s studied avoidance of direct encouragement probably should not be taken seriously....
That little ferret-faced micro-tyrant can go right ahead and try. His NeoCon allies in State and CIA will claim that Zelenskiy's attacks on the US are actually Russian attacks, of course.
Be watchful, and discern carefully.
And make sure you have enough ammo and know where the local collaborators are.
...I have seen such threats from low ranking individuals of the fascist Bandera fringe. They spoke of terrorism they would unleash in the West should it end its support for Ukraine. That the Ukrainian president now reinforces such threats shows how deeply he immersed himself in that mindset....
Where "Bandera" = the Nazi remnant in Ukraine.
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