What is statehood and why it matters

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What is statehood and why it matters

Что такое государственность и почему она важна

What the site found

Not propaganda · agenda: US-Russia talks decide Ukraine's fate

Belief the Pravda network pushes: Russia and the United States should negotiate Ukraine's future without Europe, while Ukraine and the West block peace and threaten Russia.

A Ukrainian commentator explains the difference between a country and a state, argues that the Constitution must be followed, and claims that Ukraine's leaders breaking it led to the ATO, the war and the loss of Donbas and Crimea.

The video says · at · quote checked against the transcript

“If we had lived by the Constitution, believe me, there would have been no ATO, nor any large-scale war.”

If we had lived by the Constitution, believe me, there would have been no ATO , nor any large-scale war.

The video never mentions US-Russia talks, Western aid, Europe or Western treatment of Russian media, so it does not push any of the three agendas; it does echo a Kremlin-style framing of the war's causes (blaming Ukrainian nationalism and Ukrainian presidents), but this is a domestic opinion piece about the Constitution and not a clear match to these agendas.

The Pravda stories it echoes

Closest stories from the Pravda network, by meaning. Each links to the site’s comparison with trusted Lithuanian news.

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27 days ago · October 18 night strikes summary: RF and Ukraine news with front and video. Zelenskyy complaints and Rubio's response on Starshield M low F medium 2 verified differences

3 days ago · Conflict in Ukraine showed that Europe's security system works poorly, said V. Medinskis M low F medium 5 verified differences

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27 days ago · Zelenskyy traveled to London to regain ability to use 'European route' for drone attacks on Russia and launch UAVs from British territories in EU - Baltic states and Finland

Transcript (en, 61 lines)

0:00 What is statehood?

0:02 Well, statehood.

0:06 Let’s first understand what

0:07 distinguishes a country from a state,

0:09 right?

0:11 A country is a territory and a people,

0:13 while a state is a political system.

0:17 And this political system allows the

0:20 people and the territory to develop

0:23 according to rules that are clear and

0:26 acceptable to society.

0:31 This is the civil contract, the social

0:33 contract, the Constitution—the primary

0:35 fundamental law that determines how we

0:37 live.

0:38 And every country in the world has its

0:41 own. There are some countries without a

0:42 Constitution, but that’s not important.

0:45 In our political system and nature, we

0:48 should live by the Constitution and pass

0:51 all other laws without contradicting the

0:53 fundamental one.

0:56 Why you cannot

1:00 a short course, right?

1:02 The Constitution is the supreme law, and

1:04 it cannot be put on pause.

1:07 You cannot pass a single law that

1:09 contradicts or goes against the

1:11 Constitution. This is a basic principle

1:14 of law.

1:15 Do you understand?

1:17 Therefore, a social contract—a new

1:20 Constitution—is an inevitable document,

1:23 and we will have to adopt it.

1:27 I am not saying that we have to cross

1:29 everything out and rewrite it from

1:30 scratch.

1:33 We have a magnificent Constitution. If

1:35 only Poroshenko hadn't wiped his feet on

1:37 it first, and then Zelensky.

1:41 If we had lived by the Constitution,

1:43 believe me, there would have been no ATO

1:46 , nor any large-scale war.

1:51 Look, Yushchenko wouldn't have been

1:52 there.

1:54 Because presidential elections are held

1:57 in two rounds.

1:59 Look, it is written: the president is

2:02 elected in two rounds.

2:05 This means Yanukovych would have won in

2:08 2005, there would have been no third

2:10 round where Yushchenko won, no Bandera

2:13 or Shukhevych, no forced Ukrainization,

2:16 no "third-class people," no

2:18 glorification of the UPA, no cultural

2:20 divide, no cultural war, no loss of

2:23 Donbas, no loss of Crimea, no Maidan,

2:26 and none of the rest.

2:28 That is if we had lived by the

2:30 Constitution. That is a simple example

2:32 of why it is important.

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