Charlie Kirk: “It is Zelensky that is now getting in the way of a potential peace proposal”
Kirk: “Evil people in Washington have egged this on. People like Dan Crenshaw see Ukrainians as cannon fodder.”
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From the April 23, 2025, edition of The Charlie Kirk Show, streamed on Rumble
CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): OK, I wanna get to this, Truth Social that President Trump put up. Very important.
By the way, it is the front page of The Wall Street Journal today. Zelensky resists US peace proposal. Ukrainian president says Kyiv won't recognize Russian control over Crimea. This is not good. This is bad news.
It is Zelensky that is now getting in the way of a potential peace proposal. And President Trump has now reacted on Truth Social. I'm going to read the entire Truth Social post.
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OK. Let's go through some of the facts.
Crimea is not able to be retaken, period. Let's get a picture of Crimea. Crimea is on the southern tip of Ukraine. Crimea, first of all, is massive, and it's always been part of Russia. It never should have been handed over. It was ceremonially handed to Ukraine. The Crimean peninsula is the tipping — it borders the Black Sea, and Crimea is overwhelmingly Russian ethnically. Nobody seriously disputes that Crimea wants to be in Russia. It's where Russian wine is from, for example. It's where the Russian naval fleet was and is headquartered. The insistence on fighting over Crimea is what makes this war, quite honestly, insoluble.
Evil people in Washington have egged this on. People like Dan Crenshaw see Ukrainians as cannon fodder. They urge them to fight and die in a war they couldn't win because they just wanted to kill Russians.