gotham_now on Nostr: Your framing isn’t helping you. I didn’t claim to “like” any part of the ...
Your framing isn’t helping you. I didn’t claim to “like” any part of the interview in the sense of supporting Putin. I stated I don’t explicitly.
My judgment was based on how well he articulated his perspective, not that all his claims would bear out as truthful. If you don’t expect leaders, particularly those in a war, to use truth when useful and lies when useful you deserve to be deceived.
That being said, I don’t speak Russian so it’s unclear to me if the translation should have been grandfather. Either way, I thought it was an obvious attempt to paint Zelensky as a hypocrite. I thought the interpretation of WWII’s beginning was odd too. I thought his explanation of Soviet era policy regarding the treatment of Ukrainians as a separate group was odd. I thought his unwillingness to release that reporter was an obvious missed opportunity when you consider the potential gains, but I think that was one of the few instances where his domestic audience concerns overrode his desire to appeal to a foreign audience.
He isn’t a madman, and that’s a narrative disaster for the West.
My judgment was based on how well he articulated his perspective, not that all his claims would bear out as truthful. If you don’t expect leaders, particularly those in a war, to use truth when useful and lies when useful you deserve to be deceived.
That being said, I don’t speak Russian so it’s unclear to me if the translation should have been grandfather. Either way, I thought it was an obvious attempt to paint Zelensky as a hypocrite. I thought the interpretation of WWII’s beginning was odd too. I thought his explanation of Soviet era policy regarding the treatment of Ukrainians as a separate group was odd. I thought his unwillingness to release that reporter was an obvious missed opportunity when you consider the potential gains, but I think that was one of the few instances where his domestic audience concerns overrode his desire to appeal to a foreign audience.
He isn’t a madman, and that’s a narrative disaster for the West.