Elon Musk:

If simulation theory is correct, then any simulations that are boring will be truncated.

The fact that we exist means that we are an interesting simulation.

And really, the most important thing is just don't be boring.

Netanyahu:

A significant part of the antisemitism in the West is an operation by, unfortunately, Russian entities, and of that terrible man, Dugin. A terrible man, simply terrible.

And he is poisoning the young American right. That is where he directs most of his efforts. They work together; they have alliances.

This struggle must be conducted through AI as well, as well as in government ministries.

Billionaire tech investor and longtime Trump ally Peter Thiel has openly criticized the U.S. war with Iran, marking his clearest break with the president on foreign policy.

“I’m skeptical of [the war], I think we should not have done it,” Thiel said during a private lecture on October 12. “There were a lot of mistakes that were made.”

Source: POLITICO

Zelensky:

I think Trump had a special relationship with Putin, and still does.

Maybe it really is possible that Trump being on friendly terms with Putin could have prevented a full-scale invasion.

But one thing you have to know for sure: neither I nor Trump are eternal in these presidential seats.

Either way, Trump's presidency would have ended, and Putin still wouldn't have changed his main goal — the occupation of Ukraine.

So I think, honestly, it doesn't matter who the president is as long as Putin is there.

Zelensky:

We asked the Americans: If you believe this is war, then give us weapons urgently, everything you can give.

But nobody would give anything.

I asked President Biden: Impose sanctions on Russia now, preemptively. If you know there could be an invasion, impose sanctions.

But President Biden said, "We'll impose sanctions if there's an invasion." Postfactum, not preemptive sanctions.

I'm not God to judge a president, but I believe that was a mistake.

Zelensky:

I didn't think there would be a full-scale invasion.

I didn't think so because I believe that if people know there's going to be a full-scale invasion, partners and so on, and they don't take preemptive steps, don't sit him down at the table, don't tell him, "Are you out of your mind? Have you lost your mind to wage war, to kill people?"

But even so, a full-scale invasion happened.

Zelensky:

A day before the invasion, the Europeans, who knew less than the Americans, were talking with Putin.

Putin promised them there wouldn't be an invasion.

He lied to all of them. He knew there would be an invasion. He knew everything.

Zelensky:

Russia was putting out a lot of information claiming I had fled.

Their whole idea was for people to run, and people would run if they saw that their leader abandoned them.

They wanted me to run.

I couldn't abandon Kyiv, the office, the people. It's just impossible.

That would be betrayal. Betrayal of my human decency and the constitution of Ukraine.

Q: Joe Biden asked you if you wanted to be evacuated?

Zelensky: He was the first.

Q: What did he say?

Zelensky: "We are ready to help you evacuate. Kyiv is surrounded, and we are ready to help you and your family." Likewise, many Europeans offered me that later.

Q: What did you say to Biden?

Zelensky: I need ammunition, not a ride.

Zelensky:

They cut off our food, cut off our water, cut everything off completely.

They expected people to run, and me.

Certain people came to me and said "Kyiv is cut off, Kyiv is surrounded, and the Russians are suggesting you hand over your powers."

"Kyiv must surrender."

Naturally, I told those people where to go — let's put it that way — out of my office.

Zelensky:

Nobody expected that they would go through Belarus and advance on the capital.

That's why we didn't have any strong troops there. That is an absolute fact.

We simply didn't have that kind of army.

Just imagine 200,000 people coming at you. It's simply impossible to defend.

You need an army like the one we have today, 800,000.

We held out and destroyed them. They didn't have enough troops to hold the occupied territories, and they had to pull back.

That's how we fully took back Kyiv region, Chernihiv region and that whole front.

Zelensky:

When our guys hit their tanks, we found parade uniforms. It's true.

They found parade uniforms in Russian military vehicles. They were literally marching to a parade.

They wanted to capture Kyiv in three days and symbolically hold some kind of spectacle of pseudo-victory on Independence Square.

Zelensky:

When the full-scale invasion started, there was mobilization.

People showed up as volunteers, and our army grew from 200,000 to 800,000.

The Russian presence was around 700,000 across all directions on Ukrainian territory.

This was a massive onslaught.

Zelensky:

What's the problem for Russia?

If Ukraine becomes part of Europe, then Russia will collapse.

It will fall apart. There are many different peoples, different religions, entirely different nations.

Zelensky:

They called Ukraine the Soviet Union's forge of talent.

There were so many scientists, engineers, universities, a huge intelligentsia.

Many people who came from Ukraine went on to run various institutions and ministries in the Soviet Union.

Ukraine was the intellectual part of the Soviet Union.

Ukraine was always involved in rocket manufacturing. The biggest rocket manufacturing was here, nuclear weapons, which Ukraine handed over. A lot of things were made in Ukraine.

Zelensky:

Putin started the war in Chechnya.

He destroyed it completely.

The very same military commanders who fought in Chechnya, who destroyed Chechnya completely, are involved in what's happening in eastern Ukraine.

There was nothing left. No buildings, nothing.

A huge number of people were killed in Chechnya.

Zelensky:

Ukraine is the heir to Kyivan Rus, a great state that was very well known in Europe.

Russia wasn't even close to existing. Russia came after Ukraine already existed.

But Putin cuts all that out and starts with the 1917 Revolution.

Zelensky:

Why do empires fall apart? Because people want to be free.

People live like fish in a fish tank.

The fish tank can be massive, like the Soviet Union, but it's still a fish tank.

North Korea is a smaller fish tank, but it's a fish tank.

Zelensky:

I don't know what President Trump is talking about.

They surrounded Kyiv. They reached Kyiv. They occupied towns on the way to Kyiv.

It wasn't a matter of some general being an idiot.

They needed around 300,000 to 400,000 troops to take Kyiv. They needed twice as many men.

They didn't even realize there would be resistance. That was their main mistake.

Zelensky:

The war really started with the occupation of Crimea.

It's just that it was slow, that occupation. It didn't look much like a war because Ukraine wasn't fighting back at that point.

The problem was that there were no clear orders from the Ukrainian authorities that you need to defend your land.

If there had been an order to defend the country, I'm sure a full-scale war in the form it has today wouldn't have happened.

Our mistake was not pushing them back.