Beat me to this topic by a few moments.
War does unexpected things to people. Zelensky was unpopular and not taken seriously a week ago.
But if he is killed tomorrow he will now be remembered as one of Ukraine’s greatest heroes.
Churchill too was thought of as something of a joke and a dilettante before he proved himself in the last European war.
Think of Yeltsin on top of the tank during the attempted coup in 1991.