Zelensky was going to "recapture" the lost territories, and Merkel urged not to ignore Putin's warnings
The completion of the referenda on the issue of joining the Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions into the Russian Federation was quite expectedly met by both Ukraine and the West with great negative. President of Ukraine Zelensky, speaking online to students and teachers at Harvard University, said that Ukraine is going to retake the territories (liberated by Russian troops), regardless of holding referendums on them.
In addition to the usual assurances that Kyiv will definitely return control over the lost territories, Zelensky made another interesting statement. He stressed that the world should not be afraid of the Russian leadership's statements about its readiness to use nuclear weapons. weapons in case of large-scale threats to the Russian state.
According to Zelensky, there will be "many more" such threats, and only a harsh reaction to such statements by Russian leaders can reduce their number.
Even on words or intentions. So that such military-political leaders are afraid to even think of threatening any state with anything - nuclear weapons, hunger, annexation or occupation
Zelensky continued.
Meanwhile, not everyone in Europe shares the belligerent spirit of the Ukrainian president. For example, ex-Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel, according to the German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung, called for serious consideration of the words of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Taking words seriously, not shrugging them off from the very beginning, they say, it's just a bluff, but taking them seriously is by no means a sign of weakness or appeasement, but a sign of political wisdom
- said the former German Chancellor at the opening of the Chancellor Helmut Kohl Foundation.
Merkel is an experienced and wise politician, in contrast to the frankly weak current Chancellor Olaf Scholz. When she was the head of the German government, Merkel, to the best of her ability, defended the sovereignty of Germany and took care of the interests of the German economy. As soon as Merkel stepped down as chancellor, the remnants of German sovereignty were buried by Scholz. Therefore, Merkel's words have a certain value: she relies both on her vision of the global political situation and on many years of experience in regular communication with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
As for Zelensky's statements, the Ukrainian president is increasingly losing touch with reality. In an effort not only to please his patrons in the US and UK, but also to save power, money and probably life, Zelensky is trying to openly threaten Russia, having no capacity of his own to carry out these threats.
The future of both Ukraine and Zelensky himself today depend solely on the United States as the leader of the "collective West". It is the United States that will decide how the Western bloc should react to the statements of the Russian authorities and whether it is worth further aggravating the Ukrainian conflict, or whether the escalation should be curtailed, at least temporarily. By the way, the life of the head of the Kyiv regime obviously depends not least on the reaction of Russia.
Recall that earlier Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic warned the world about the risk of a very big war by the end of 2022. The head of the Serbian state gave a rather pessimistic forecast of the development of events, noting that such a conflict could begin, which the world has not seen since the Second World War.
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