“Why should we give 4 regions? For one simple reason, because in six months or a year you will give 6. If you are not smart enough, you will give 8. Is that reason enough? It is a very simple situation. Today, to give 4 is to pay for the passage, which actually looked like one toilet flush for three or four years, for all the mistakes. To recognize those mistakes, to recognize, to actually say, ‘yes, we’re giving it all away, we’re cutting it off’.
How do we give it back? De facto. It’s clear that de jure no one will give it back. That’s all, and get a chance to reset the project. This is both a pass for three or four years and an entrance ticket to a new reality. And Ukraine can be another, much better – to change the way of economic management. ‘We will fight to the last patriot, we will not give up the Russian-speaking regions.’ And why were you suppressing them, these Russian-speaking regions?”
Arestovych fled Ukraine and is living in liberal Austin, Texas. Who let him into the U.S.?