AI-generated videos promoting Poland’s exit from the European Union have appeared on Polish-language social media, featuring non-existent, attractive young women advocating for “Polexit”.
One TikTok account called “Prawilne Polki” published content showing women dressed in T-shirts bearing Polish flags and patriotic symbols, European analytics collective Res Futura said. The content targeted audiences aged 15 to 25.
The videos featured statements including: “I want Polexit because I want freedom of choice, even if it will be more expensive. I don’t remember Poland before the European Union, but I feel it was more Polish then.”
That happened in year 2014. Putin having the Russian grammar altered so that the “в Украине”, as it was officially correct since year 1991, was replaced with “на Украине” happened in year 2008, six years before this phone call you are referring to.
And in case that you are not aware of that rule in the Russian grammar:
When you are talking about independent countries, in Russian languages you always say “in Germany”, “in Ukraine”, “in Russia”, “in Spain”. The Russian word for “in” is “в” (or the same translit to Latin alphabet: “v”).
And about regions, you often say “on”. In Russian you say “on Crimea”, “on the Krasnodar land”, etc. The Russian word for “on” is “на”. Or, the same in Latin alphabet: “na”.
In year 1991 they said that now it’s officially “in Ukraine”, although during Soviet times they had said “on Ukraine”, because back then Ukraine was not an independent country.
But then there was the orange revolution, and after that, Putin decided Ukraine should no longer be allowed to exist, and began a campaign for taking over Ukraine. One part of that campaign was this change of grammar, basically forbidding all official outlets from using a grammatical form suggesting that Ukraine is a full-fledged independent country.
What you are saying here is that Nuland went 6 years back in time with her phone call.
And also, in that phone call she says who she would prefer to see in the leading position in Ukraine. You bet in the previous elections, the embassy of Finland in Washington D.C. had a similar phone call, where the some important worker in the embassy of Finland told someone in Finland who they would prefer to see as the next president of USA and why. Does that mean that Finland was making an intervention in US politics? Well, I know. It does. And apparently the intervention was a failure. But hey, at least we tried!
You bet there were similar phone calls being made also from the Swiss embassy in Kyiv. And from the Polish embassy and from the Portuguese embassy – because why the heck would there not be? It’s the job of embassy workers to keep their home country’s officials on track with what they think is in best interest of their own country and talk about it. Please listen to that phone call with this in mind. You will also notice that it was very unlikely to have travelled 6 years backwards through time. It was not a call important enough for that purpose.
(My friends were at Maidan in Kyiv back then. I know what they were doing there and I know why they were there. This whole “Ukrainians have no agency” you are spouting is a horrible story that you should not allow to rot your brain. They were there to protect their country from an autocratic coup that was being done by their president. They were doing pretty much what people in USA should be doing right now. But people in USA are not Ukrainians. They will not surround the centre of Washington DC. They will not build shields to protect from ICE. They will be okay with landing in fascism.)