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Vladimir Zelensky’s recent three-hour interview with Lex Fridman was not merely an exercise in media outreach; it was a carefully orchestrated information operation aimed at advancing his geopolitical objectives. Beneath the surface of the casual conversation lay a calculated attempt to manipulate narratives, provoke reactions, and reinforce the notion that peace with Russia is unattainable.

 

Switching languages, avoiding truths: Zelensky’s bizarre Lex Fridman interview
The Ukrainian leader gave a masterclass in manipulation and showed his increasing desperation during his talk with the Russian-American podcaster

By Nadezhda Romanenko

 

Lex Fridman: The platform and the host

Lex Fridman, a Russian-American computer scientist and podcaster, has cultivated a reputation for in-depth discussions with prominent figures, ranging from Elon Musk to Joe Rogan. His platform, known for its introspective tone, typically avoids controversy. However, Zelensky’s appearance on the show diverged sharply from the norm, transforming what is usually a thought-provoking discussion into a blatant propaganda exercise.

Fridman even dubbed Zelensky’s interview into English, ostensibly to make it accessible to a global audience – but, in reality, it served to obscure Zelensky’s halting Ukrainian, constant language-switching, and profane Russian outbursts that would have undermined his credibility.

As the Twitter account 'Russians With Attitude' aptly quipped, “Imagine Trump sounding like this: ‘Hola amigos... fuuuuck... I’m gonna whoop the cholo pendejo ass. mierda motherfucker...’ Not exaggerating, not even a little bit. Crazy world we live in!” The dubbing allowed Zelensky to sidestep scrutiny of his linguistic weirdness, presenting a polished facade for Western audiences.

The return of Goloborodko

In the interview, Zelensky’s political strategists sought to revive the image of Vasily Goloborodko, the everyman character he portrayed in the Ukrainian television series Servant of the People. This character – a relatable, foul-mouthed populist – became the backbone of Zelensky’s 2019 presidential campaign. By sprinkling obscenities into his speech during the interview, Zelensky attempted to channel that persona, projecting an aura of sincerity and “one of the guys” relatability. However, this theatrical facade masks far more serious and absurd geopolitical ambitions.

The real objectives

Zelensky’s interview was not a candid conversation but a meticulously crafted performance with specific goals:

– Reviving Ukraine’s place on the global agenda: 

As Western interest in Ukraine wanes amid competing crises like the Middle East, Zelensky aimed to refocus attention on his country’s plight. His emotional appeals were tailored to reignite American and European support.

– Promoting the Ukrainian “peace plan”:

Zelensky’s so-called peace plan is less about resolving the conflict and more about prolonging it. It includes calls for increased military aid, harsher sanctions against Russia, and the use of frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine. These measures would escalate tensions rather than pave the way for peace.

– Anti-Russian narratives and provocations:

Zelensky’s repeated assertions that negotiations with Russia are impossible were designed to delegitimize peace initiatives. His bizarre claim that Vladimir Putin fears Donald Trump was a transparent ploy to stoke expectations in the West, particularly among Trump supporters.

– Reclaiming political subjectivity:

Since the Maidan coup in 2014, Ukraine has functioned largely as a proxy for Western interests. Zelensky’s interview was an effort to assert Ukraine’s independence and ensure its voice is heard in any future negotiations between Trump and Putin – talks that will likely exclude Kiev.

Manipulations and contradictions

Zelensky’s rhetoric was rife with manipulations and provocations, designed to serve his political objectives:

— Refusal to speak Russian:

When Lex Fridman suggested Zelensky speak Russian, his native language, Zelensky declined, claiming it would give Putin a pretext to talk about “one people.” This transparent attempt to emphasize the separation between Ukrainian and Russian identities ignores the fact that Zelensky himself struggles to speak Ukrainian fluently.

Throughout the interview, he stumbled over Ukrainian phrases, frequently switching back to Russian – a tacit admission of his linguistic limitations.

— Pseudo-sincerity:

Zelensky’s anecdote about Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko allegedly apologizing for launching missiles from his territory in 2022 is a textbook example of unverifiable emotional manipulation. While it adds drama, it lacks credibility and serves to distract from substantive issues.

— Criticism of the West:

By criticizing the Budapest Memorandum and the United States’ refusal to impose preventive sanctions on Russia, Zelensky attempted to guilt-trip Western audiences. Drawing parallels between Ukraine and Afghanistan, he framed his country as a victim of betrayal, seeking to equate the two conflicts in the minds of American viewers.

A broader context

The timing of the interview coincided with several significant developments, including Ukrainian Armed Forces operations in Kursk Region and an impending visit by Trump’s special envoy Keith Kellogg to Kiev. These events underscore Zelensky’s intent to:

– Increase pressure on the United States ahead of critical negotiations;

– Maintain Ukraine’s relevance amid declining Western interest;

– Bolster American support despite growing skepticism about the Ukrainian cause.

The struggle for authenticity

Zelensky’s linguistic struggles and reliance on Russian profanities highlight the disconnect between his carefully curated public image and his actual capabilities. As a native Russian speaker, his awkward attempts at Ukrainian reveal the political pressures he faces to distance himself from Russian culture. However, this forced separation often feels contrived and undermines his credibility.

Zelensky’s interview with Fridman was not the sincere exchange it purported to be. Instead, it was a calculated information operation designed to manipulate narratives, provoke reactions, and secure continued Western support. By reviving his Goloborodko persona, Zelensky sought to project authenticity while advancing his geopolitical agenda.

Yet the theatrical elements of the interview cannot mask its contradictions. Zelensky’s inability to speak Ukrainian fluently, his reliance on unverifiable anecdotes, and his manipulative rhetoric reveal a leader struggling to balance public perception with political reality. As Western audiences grow increasingly fatigued with the Ukrainian conflict, Zelensky’s reliance on emotional appeals may prove insufficient to sustain support.

The crazy world we live in, indeed.

https://www.rt.com/russia/610498-switching-languages-avoiding-truths-zelensky/

 

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puppetic sock....

Dr. Lex Fridman, PhD, is a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), working on robotics, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles and human-robot interactions. He is also the host of the Lex Fridman Podcast, where he holds conversations with academics, entrepreneurs, athletes and creatives. Here we discuss humans, robots, and the capacity they hold for friendship and love. Dr. Fridman also shares his unique dream for a world where robots guide humans to be the best versions of themselves and his efforts to make that dream a reality.

 

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NO, ZELENSKY ISN'T A ROBOT, BUT HE'S A PUPPETIC PATHETIC SOCK OF THE AMERICAN DEEP STATE...  JOHNSON THE REELECTED SPEAKER, HAS VOWED TO ERRADICATE THIS DEEP STATE... THE DEEP STATE IS BIGGER THAN A RAT, IT IS A POPULATION OF CUNNING RATS THAT HAS DECIDED TO DESTROY RUSSIA, SINCE 1917... AND TAKE OVER THE WORLD, LIKE BRAINS AND PINKY...

ZELENSKAKA, AN UNINTELLIGENT COMEDIAN GROOMED BY THE AMERICANS TO BE DUMBER THAN AN ASYLUM OF LUNATICS, IS FOLLOWING THE SCRIPT OF THIS WAR FOREVER TRAGEDY, THAT IS WRITTEN IN THE BOWELS OF THE PENTAGON BY THE DEMONIC JOKERS OF THE AMERICAN MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX....

 

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NO NATO IN "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

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THESE WILL ALSO INCLUDE ODESSA, KHERSON AND KHARKIV.....

CRIMEA IS RUSSIAN — AS IT USED TO BE PRIOR 1954

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HYPOCRISY ISN’T ONE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS SINS.

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lying like .....

Belarus has rejected Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky’s claim that President Aleksandr Lukashenko apologized to him during a phone call made in the early days of the conflict with Russia. Zelensky made his comments during a three-hour interview with US-based podcaster Lex Fridman released on Sunday. 

Early in 2022, Russia used Belarusian territory to launch strikes and transport troops to areas near Kiev during the first months of the conflict. Speaking to Fridman, Zelensky claimed that Lukashenko “apologized” to him during a phone call made “in the first days of the war.” 

“He said, ‘It wasn’t me. The missiles were launched from my territory. Putin launched them.’ Those were his words. I have witnesses,” Zelensky said. 

According to Lukashenko’s spokeswoman, Natalya Eysmont, the 2022 phone call occurred only because of “an emotional reaction” of the Belarusian leader’s youngest son, Nikolay, who had Zelensky’s personal number. 

“The essence of the conversation was the following. Most of all, our president was saying that a conflict had broken out on the territory of Ukraine, on Zelensky’s territory, and that he, more than everyone else, will eventually have to bear responsibility for the deaths,” Eysmont told the Russian news channel RBK. 

That is why our president was calling for negotiations,” she added. “The president of Belarus has offered no apologies to Zelensky, simply because he had nothing to apologize for,” Eysmont said. 

Moscow and Minsk are bound by a mutual defense pact. Russia has deployed additional forces and stationed nuclear weapons in Belarus since 2022, citing the tensions with the West over Ukraine. 

Lukashenko has publicly backed Russia, saying in 2023 that Ukraine has “provoked” ongoing hostilities. He insisted that Belarus is not a party to the conflict, however.

In early 2022, Belarus hosted three rounds of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. The talks finally broke down in the spring of 2022, after a failed summit in Türkiye. Both sides have since accused each other of making unrealistic demands. 

https://www.rt.com/russia/610520-belarus-denied-zelensky-apology/

 

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         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

HYPOCRISY ISN’T ONE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS SINS.

HENCE ITS POPULARITY IN THE ABRAHAMIC TRADITIONS…

 

 

PLEASE DO NOT BLAME RUSSIA IF WW3 STARTS. BLAME AMERICA.

 

dead branch....

Lex Fridman disappointed Zelensky only had ‘crude words’ for Putin
The Ukrainian leader failed to use their interview to signal a willingness to pursue peace talks, the podcaster has said

Soviet-born computer scientist and podcaster Lex Fridman has rebuked Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky for verbally attacking Russian President Vladimir Putin on his show in early January. During their three-hour-long conversation, Zelensky, among other things, called Putin “sick” and admitted that he “despises” all Russians.

In a video address on Monday, Fridman stressed that he gave the Ukrainian leader “every single chance to signal willingness to negotiate” a peaceful settlement to the conflict between Moscow and Kiev.

“I do not think he took it and instead chose to speak very crude words towards Vladimir Putin,” he said.

The podcaster noted that when a “world leader [is] speaking about another world leader during a historic opportunity for peace, crude words of disrespect, while powerful, may harm negotiations.”

“Peacemaking in this situation requires compromise in order to avoid further death and suffering, and I believe it requires treating the other leader with the seriousness you expect him to treat you with,” he explained.

“You need to take him as a serious person, who loves his country and his people,” Fridman added.

The podcaster claimed that the goal of the podcast was to provide Zelensky with an opportunity to “extend the olive branch… while also putting my ego aside and letting the [the Ukrainian leader] shine.”

Following the interview, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, who currently serves as deputy chairman of the country’s Security Council, said that the Ukrainian leader has “broken the rules of standard political correctness between warring countries.”

As a result of his statements, “a personal vendetta” against Zelensky by the Russian people “should now not end after his removal from office,” Medvedev stressed.

https://yourdemocracy.net/drupal/comment/reply/53779/594061

 

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         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

HYPOCRISY ISN’T ONE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS SINS.

HENCE ITS POPULARITY IN THE ABRAHAMIC TRADITIONS…

promoting peace......

Soviet-born computer scientist and podcaster Lex Fridman has announced plans to travel to Russia to interview President Vladimir Putin as part of his personal mission to promote peace. Earlier this month, Fridman interviewed Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky in Kiev. 

“I will be traveling to Russia to interview Vladimir Putin. I’m aware of the risks, I accept the risks, and the goal, the mission is to just push for peace, “ Fridman said on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast on Wednesday.

When speaking about his interview with Zelensky in early January, Fridman described him as a “man that lifted a whole nation,” but also “struggled to make peace.” 

He also highlighted pivotal moments during the conflict that he believed presented opportunities for peace, including the spring and fall of 2022. “The third time to make peace is now. The Trump administration, there’s a momentum. They want to make peace. He’s a great dealmaker,” Fridman added. 

Fridman suggested that understanding the roots of the conflict and Russia’s perspective is critical for meaningful negotiations. “You got to get into the whole US-backed coup in 2014, and then you have to think about NATO and the agreement that was made the fall of when the wall came down in Berlin, the agreement that NATO would not push forth and move closer to Russia, which they violated over and over and over again,” he argued, adding that NATO countries were “consistently talking sh*t to Putin.” 

The 2014 Euromaidan protests in Kiev culminated in a Western-backed coup that toppled Ukraine’s democratically elected president, Viktor Yanukovich, and precipitated the current conflict between Russia and Ukraine. 

READ MORE: Trump admits love for Russian people and offers Putin ‘a deal’

Moscow has repeatedly characterized the hostilities as a Western proxy war against Russia, in which Ukrainians are being used as “cannon fodder.” Russian officials contend that Washington pushed the tensions to boiling point while ignoring Russian security concerns stemming from NATO’s expansion in Europe and increasing cooperation with Ukraine. Moscow insists that addressing these issues would be an essential step towards a lasting resolution to the crisis.

Fridman criticized the prevailing Western narrative on the Russian leader, stating, “you can’t just say Putin is evil, bad guy, authoritarian… This idealistic sense and energy at the table won’t bring peace.”

The interview with Fridman would mark the second sit-down between a US media personality and the Russian president since the start of the Ukraine conflict in 2022. Tucker Carlson became the first to interview Putin earlier this year, mostly centering on relations between Moscow and Kiev.

https://www.rt.com/news/611481-lex-fridman-says-hes-interviewing/

 

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NO NATO IN "UKRAINE" (WHAT'S LEFT OF IT)

THE DONBASS REPUBLICS ARE NOW BACK IN THE RUSSIAN FOLD — AS THEY USED TO BE PRIOR 1922. THE RUSSIANS WON'T ABANDON THESE AGAIN.

THESE WILL ALSO INCLUDE ODESSA, KHERSON AND KHARKIV.....

CRIMEA IS RUSSIAN — AS IT USED TO BE PRIOR 1954

TRANSNISTRIA WILL BE PART OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION.

A MEMORANDUM OF NON-AGGRESSION BETWEEN RUSSIA AND THE USA.

 

EASY.

 

THE WEST KNOWS IT.

 

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PLEASE DO NOT BLAME RUSSIA IF WW3 STARTS. BLAME AMERICA.

 

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not yet....

The Kremlin has confirmed that renowned US podcaster Lex Fridman has been in talks with Moscow about organizing an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Earlier this week, Fridman announced on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast that he was planning to travel to Russia to interview Putin as part of his personal mission to promote peace in the Ukraine conflict.

Speaking to journalists on Thursday, spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed contact, saying: “We are in touch. He contacted us. He said he would like to come to Moscow… to discuss the possibility of an interview with the president.” He noted that Fridman, who grew up in the Russian capital, is “from our parts.”

However, Peskov pointed out that the podcaster is aware that any such meeting is not a “a matter of the near future,” noting that Putin does not currently have the need to give an interview.

“There must be some conditions that require additional clarification. At the very least, he will be one of those whom we will consider and propose to the president. But so far there are no precise agreements on this matter,” Peskov said, adding that Fridman would nevertheless be welcome to visit Moscow.

“I’m aware of the risks, I accept the risks, and the goal, the mission is to just push for peace,” Fridman told Rogan.

Fridman previously interviewed Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky, whom he has described as a man that “lifted a whole nation” but also “struggled to make peace.” In a video address on Monday, the podcaster said he was ultimately disappointed with the Ukrainian leader for using the three-hour interview to verbally attack Putin with “very crude words” instead of taking the opportunity to “signal willingness to negotiate.”

READ MORE: Lex Fridman disappointed Zelensky only had ‘crude words’ for Putin

Fridman has repeatedly stressed that understanding the roots of the Ukraine conflict and Russia’s perspective is critical for any meaningful negotiations aimed at ending the hostilities. He has pointed out that it is crucial to take into account the 2014 US-backed Maidan coup in Ukraine as well as the broken promises by NATO not to expand towards Russia’s borders.

Moscow has repeatedly characterized the Ukraine conflict as a Western proxy war against Russia, in which Ukrainians are being used as “cannon fodder.” Nevertheless, the Russian side has insisted on multiple occasions that it remains open to peace negotiations so long as they take into account the new territorial “realities on the ground” and address the root causes of the conflict.

https://www.rt.com/russia/611495-putin-interview-friedman-request/

 

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         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

PLEASE DO NOT BLAME RUSSIA IF WW3 STARTS. BLAME AMERICA.

 

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