Oleksiy Arestovych: Zelenskyy’s challenger (archived)
Arestovych’s in the US, now, and plans on running in the next Ukrainian Presidential election. What he says isn’t too bad but we know how it turned out with Zelensky. Unfortunately, I accidentally deleted the clip on European and NATO memberships. He basically said that Ukraine should be a neutral country. All of these clips are on my YouTube, as well. The full interview is here.
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In 2019, Volodymyr Zelensky, a novice politician and former television comedian, rose to the Ukrainian presidency on the strength of a peace platform. But once in power, the peace candidate turned into a hardline president, refusing to implement the Minsk peace deal; refusing to rethink the wisdom of joining NATO; refusing to question the wisdom of hosting a US military base in Yaroviv or of sending Ukrainian paramilitaries to the US for training.
Arestovych’s Bid for Ukraine’s Presidential Election that Might Not Happen
Since his resignation, Arestovych moved abroad. where he announced his candidacy for the presidency in recent weeks.
Zelenskyi’s spokesperson: soldier, actor, psychologist, propagandist (article from a Soros site)
In 2005, Arestovych joined the Ukrainian far-Right group Bratstvo (Brotherhood) under its leader Dmytro Korchynskyi, eventually becoming the latter’s deputy.
In the early 2000s, the two travelled to Moscow together to take part in conferences of the International Eurasian Movement, run by Alexander Dugin
Ex-Zelensky aide “declares the nationalist Ukrainian project ‘dead’
Ex-Zelensky aide Aleksey Arestovich “declared the nationalist Ukrainian project ‘dead’, stating that Kiev is unable to find people willing to fight for it.”
“People of cultures other than Ukrainian, be they Russian or something else, do not want to fight for a monoethnic Ukraine because Kiev discriminates against them, [he said].
“[He added that] the same is true for people who live in territories under Russian control, which Kiev wants to take back by force.
“Ukraine ‘has nothing to offer to the residents of Donbass and Crimea, except for a second-rate citizen status,’ he said.
Oleksiy Arestovych: Ukraine’s Quest for Future and Identity
Arestovych highlighted the problem of mobilization in Ukraine, noting a lack of a unifying national project that people are willing to fight and potentially sacrifice their lives for. This, he argued, is a practical reflection of a broader issue: the absence of a clear ideological direction and a desire to withdraw from the historical process.
More on the Brotherhood (this would have been right before the Orange color Revolution)
On March 31, 2004, members of the “Brotherhood” poured glue and water on George Soros, shouting: “Soros, get out of Ukraine, you will not succeed”. Later they tried to throw eggs at his car. In response to this situation, George Soros gave the following assessment: “I am surprised that 1+1 gives the air to a person who controls a group of hooligans” – referring to the head of the “Brotherhood” Dmitry Korchinsky (who hosted the “Prote” program).
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 