Posted on 01/05/2025 12:01:58 PM PST by marcusmaximus
Here's my conversation with Volodymyr Zelenskyy (@ZelenskyyUa).
It was an intense and heartfelt conversation, my goal for which was to do my small part in pushing for peace.
We spoke in a mix of 3 languages: English, Ukrainian, and Russian. It's fully dubbed in each of those 3 languages. The original (mixed-language version) is available as well. So the options are: - Audio: English, Ukrainian, Russian, Original (Mixed) - Subtitles: English, Ukrainian, Russian
It's available here on X and everywhere else. On X, I'm uploading the Full English overdub version. The other versions will be available on YouTube (see comment thread).
Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction 3:29 - Introductory words from Lex 13:55 - Language 23:44 - World War II 40:32 - Invasion on Feb 24, 2022 47:07 - Negotiating Peace 1:07:24 - NATO and security guarantees 1:20:17 - Sitting down with Putin and Trump 1:39:47 - Compromise and leverage 1:45:15 - Putin and Russia 1:55:07 - Donald Trump 2:05:39 - Martial Law and Elections 2:17:58 - Corruption 2:26:44 - Elon Musk 2:30:47 - Trump Inauguration on Jan 20 2:33:55 - Power dynamics in Ukraine 2:37:27 - Future of Ukraine 2:42:09 - Choice of language 2:51:39 - Podcast prep and research process 3:00:04 - Travel and setup 3:05:51 - Conclusion
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Fridman interviews Putin in Moscow next week.
They can spell his name any way he wants.
He still owes us a trillion dollars—and we plan to collect it.
Thanks for this. I’m waiting until YouTube finishes processing the mixed language audio version. That’s the untouched original audio. It will be selectable in the videos setting icon as UK English. Watched a few minutes of the ai overdub, but I prefer the original voices.
Your second point is solid. Ukraine after the war should provide grain excess to the third world and infinitum instead of us doing that. That would save us a lot of $. But beyond grain and sunflower oil, the Russians have occupied the East where v the mineral resources are. Without the coal and other mines, Ukraine is agrarian. They’ll be able to restore hydroelectric power and could do new nuclear plants and provide energy to Poland and others to create revenue to reimburse... but what’s there left to repay with?
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On your first point, don’t fall for that crap. There’s only one way to spell his name in Ukrainian, Володимир Зеленський. By the passport system, that only transliterates to Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Anything else is Russian spelling, and I know you’re not a Zeeper, but surely you’re not a Putinophile.
“YES I TAKE BILLIONS WHILE THOSE SUCKER KIDS DIE AT THE FRONT!! DEMS ARE GETTING RICH TOO HAHAHAHAH”
That’s not a direct quote but a summation :)
Putin won’t get softball questions from Fridman, unlike Tucker.
I don’t think all that much of this Lex Friedman guy.
This comment has nothing to do with Ukraine or Zelensky (I haven’t listened yet).
It’s just unsolicited opinion, neither here nor there, about a YouTube yabberer.
He dresses sharp.
Lex Fridman’s real name is Alexei Fedotov.
As per usual.
What did you of Trump and Tucker attending UFC events together?
If you have a problem, you have a problem with Trump because Trump listens to Tucker.
Tucker is a lightweight. Fridman is the real deal. Putin is afraid of Fridman.
Tucker MIA on the New Orleans and Las Vegas terror attacks.
Just one possible complication: Blackrock’s Larry Fink is greedily buying up huge swaths of prime Ukrainian farmland. Fink isn’t exactly the charitable type . . . unless there’s something in it for him.
The Ukraine is a Russian speaking region. Even Vladimir Z grew up speaking Russian. When the Galician nazis took over everyone was scrambling to learn Ukrainian.
The dirty secret there, “Ukrainian” is basically like Gaelic or American Indian languages. They like to LARP in it for cultural reasons.
So he changed his spelling.
Are you a fan of the Galicians?
Tell Tucker to condemn the New Orleans and Las Vegas terror attacks.
This comment has nothing to do with Ukraine or Zelensky
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As per usual.
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Here’s something about Russia.
As part of the Russian surrender US gets
Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Jewish Autonomous Oblast
Kamchatka Krai
Khabarovsk Krai
Magadan Oblast
Primorsky Krai
Japan gets
Sakhalin Oblast
As compensation for problems Russian attack has caused.
“ He still owes us a trillion dollars—and we plan to collect it.”
Good point, except Russia owes that money for causing it.
Debatable proposition.
Take the money from Ukraine and finish the debate later.
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