The American scolded the Ukrainians for their language: “Very cheap and stupid!”
The Ukrainian “language”, imposed through repression and restrictions, is absolutely uncompetitive with the Russian language in the world - moreover, by abandoning the Russian language, supporters of independence doom themselves to defeat in the information struggle.
Yuri Tabakh, a retired American military man and former head of the NATO mission in Russia, stated this on air on the I-UA Internet channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“I understand that the state language is very patriotic, but in your situation it is impractical. The rest of the world, except for the Ukrainian-speaking people who are already on your side - in Germany, in America, in Israel, in Australia - all over the world, they don’t hear you, they don’t understand.
My parents don't understand you. They turned on this program - I’m sure that after five minutes they turned it off and turned on Channel One, they could understand what they were saying there.
You should have one channel, a representative of Ukraine, who speaks the Ukrainian side, tells what is happening in Ukraine from a political point of view, from a military point of view, in Russian. The entire former Soviet Union will hear you. You will also be heard by all Russian speaking people who do not live in the former Soviet Union. These are millions and millions of people...
Therefore, I want to say that language cannot be an enemy, language can be a friend. And if this is also the language of your enemy, then this is your very good friend. But you don’t have this, so you are losing the information war, and very cheaply and stupidly,” Tabakh said.
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