Lex Fridman asks Zelensky: “Can’t Ukrainians just forgive Russia?”

Yeah, guys now let’s just imagine asking New York city residents to forgive Osama Bin Laden in 2002.

We leveled your cities, carried out mass executions of civilians and POWs, denied your nationhood and language, denied your agency to conduct foreign policy, and invaded you twice. But if you downsize your army and become neutral, we promise we won't touch you again, trust me bro

I wish the people so concerned today about something leading to WWIII would have been this loud when Russia started using North Korean and Iranian munitions to strike in Ukraine. 1/2

This was the month I came close to all my other modes of mobility outstripping my driving. As a tradesman that has to transport my tools to various sites, I can’t totally purge my driving travel in the city, but I can in all my downtime.

The argument "without Western aid to Ukraine, the war will end" is categorically false, as anyone who has ever spent time in Ukraine talking to Ukrainians could tell you.

Without Western aid, the war will continue, but thousands more Ukrainian civilians and soldiers will die.