Posted on 02/27/2023 12:55:29 PM PST by Red Badger
Engaged in a continuing Great Purge against top officials, the authoritarian Ukrainian president finds himself with fewer and fewer allies where it matters.
Volodomyr Zelensky has a lot of powerful backers around the world, and from afar, the Ukrainian president seems politically invincible.
He’s got the Uniparty in Washington, D.C. on his side, coupled with the international globalists in the robust World Economic Forum-attached network, along with the public-private asset management behemoth financiers in BlackRock and co, and another heavy line of credit through the IMF-World Bank group.
Domestically, it’s an entirely different story. The Ukrainian people are suffering greatly under Zelensky, with mandatory conscription and half the country’s land mass now exposed to the horrors and bombardment of an indefinite war footing. Kiev once pursued neutrality and embraced its role as a buffer state as the functioning gold standard for geopolitical relations. Now, at the insistence of the western ruling class, Ukraine has committed realpolitik seppuku and has become fiercely antagonistic to its more powerful neighbor.
The corporate press and D.C. institutions have insisted that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s standing is most at risk of a coup or popular overthrow, but there is no evidence for such an assertion. In fact, polling from the independent Levada-Center shows Putin’s approval rating has spiked to over 80 percent since the commencement of the war in Ukraine. Zelensky, on the other hand, is heading in the opposite direction, becoming increasingly unpopular as the war drags on.
The Zelensky government is fighting wars on two fronts, having engaged in ethnic cleansing against large swaths of its own population, especially the 1/3 of the country that is now labeled as enemies of the state due to their Russian ethnic and linguistic backgrounds.
Moreover, despite the seemingly endless rounds of Western supplies and money disbursements contributing to the war effort, Ukraine is losing this conflict badly, and their citizens are paying the greatest price for it.
In order to protect his government and his personal standing in office, Zelensky has spent recent weeks and months conducting a Great Purge within Ukraine.
Countless high-ranking ministers, governors, and other Ukrainian bureaucrats have been stripped of authority, of course, without any due process. In recent weeks, Zelensky’s deputy minister of defense, the deputy head of the country’s presidential office, and the deputy prosecutor general are but many of the high-ranking individuals who were recently removed due to “corruption” allegations. In one such recent incident, the three highest ranking officials in Zelensky’s interior ministry were killed in a “helicopter accident” over Kiev.
There’s surely a large kernel of truth to the corruption allegations, as Ukraine is regularly ranked as the most corrupt country in Europe. Yet it doesn’t seem to be the motivating force behind the systematic removal of upper management at lightning speed.
Despite facing an ongoing war, Zelensky has been known to take time to engage in very public spats with his political rivals — only those who are still allowed to serve in government, following the Zelensky government’s extrajudicial elimination of their political opposition — over trivial issues. Nonetheless, he’s been publicly beefing with a political rival in the mayor of Kiev, the popular former boxing champion Vitali Klitschko, who has previously been well positioned to throw his hat in the ring for the presidency.
Hans de Vreij President Zelenskiy fires a top Ukrainian military commander (major general Eduard Moskalyov, commander joint forces of Ukraine), no reason given. reuters.com/world/europe/z…
Over the weekend, Ukraine took another series of devastating battlefield losses. On Sunday, Zelensky fired a top general in Eduard Mykhailovich Moskalov, who led Ukraine’s joint forces and was appointed to the post in March of 2022. There was no reason given for the abrupt firing, but in all likelihood it has to do with Ukraine’s struggle to retain Bakhmut, the war-torn city in the country’s east.
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Ukraine’s Zelensky is a corrupt authoritarian who narrowly avoided ouster because of the invasion. The truth is beginning to come out - he’s even more ruthless and dangerous than Putin. The US is enabling two monsters - one in Russia and one in Ukraine.
wsj.com
Ukraine’s Zelensky Is Challenged by Return of Domestic Political Troubles Ukraine’s president faces government corruption allegations, political competition and questions about Western aid. The politics of the prewar period are returning for the 45-year-old wartime leader.
The corporate press has finally started to address the possibility that Zelensky’s Great Purge is not a corruption-busting endeavor, but a power preserving initiative. It is much more likely, in fact, that these officials are being removed because they threaten the integrity of the regime. While Zelensky’s foreign backers can continue to prop him up, the people closest to him must also buy into the mission. As the fog of war clears, so too may the honeymoon period for Zelensky unopposed standing as the leader of Ukraine.
Yeah. And then all the money and weapons will go by the way of Afcrapistan.
Nah, the people in Ukraine that want Zelensky out are surrender monkeys.
And since they are surrender monkeys, a coup in Ukraine is unlikely.
This article lays out a theory without a single reference to any sign of Zelensky being overthrown or even facing significant internal opposition.
It’s all about how terrible things are and all the things he’s done to demote other officials plus some silliness about the helicopter crash actually having been him murdering political rivals.
Sounds to me like he is giving the opposition hell and conducting a major war, there isn’t any sign that anyone is planning to overthrow him.
This is a made up article because there has been a lot of discussion about Putin lately and they want to turn it around.
“polling from the independent Levada-Center shows Putin’s approval rating has spiked to over 80 percent”
Now if you wer4e living in Russia and someone called you one the phone or knocked on the door asking you if you support Putin and his war what on earth would you say? The fact that 20% say what they really think probably indicates a majority are opposed.
They listed among the reasons that he might be overthrown, that he has been engaging in “ethnic cleansing”.
Pure propaganda. The Ukrainians are fighting like heck for him.
Lincoln did the same things during the Civil War. He fired top generals 4 or 5 times until he got Grant......................
Zelinski only does what Andre.Yermak tells him to do - any palace coup will be by Andre Yermak.
Yermak runs Ukraine, not Zelinski who is only a figure head for the real power that Yermak holds in the unelected misnamed Presidential Administration, of which Zelinski is not a member.
Alexander Mercouris, Duran Independent Media (Youtube Daily)
Bakmut Fight is all but over, all roads cut, 7000 troops trapped, Zelenky sacks key General, Warnings of Ukrainians attacking Transnistria, Spain: Nato out of Ammo
Did anyone see Posobiec’s video spoof of Biden announcing reinstatement of Selective Service? OMG, LOL!
Drip, drip comes the truth.
Is "surrender monkey" a technical term for political parties that have been declared illegal?
You mean the gay jew isn’t in charge? I’m very surprised.
How about simultaneous coups?
Biden Invokes Selective Service Act
Serious thought--what happens if people refuse en masse?
How many of the bots posting here will cheer at videos of Americans being pulled out of homes to fight in a war in which there is no national interest?
And what happens (given what is mentioned in the video) if a "third front" opens up domestically in reaction?
What ammunition are all 30 countries of NATO out of?
The 155mm artillery rounds. Ukraine is now only firing less than 3K per day, down from 6k a few weeks ago, and down from the higher rates earlier in the Russian Special Operation.
Take a look at the video link. It won’t bite. A lot to learn outside the Biden MSM NATO Ministery of Truth News the West is allowed. The truth is slowly coming out. Hence, the hysteria over India and China refusing to fall into line with Washington on the Ukraine Conflict.
What the heck is Yellen doing in Ukraine when she is screaming US Default with congressional ceilings on debt....
I guess Yellen speaks for Biden. Looks like we are on cusp of a US Default and re-issuance of the America’s Dollar in place of the USD.
FJB - he is move evil than Satan.
“Warnings of Ukrainians attacking Transnistria,”
Which might sit well with the Z-bots on here, but I doubt would sit well with others.
Spain? WTH is that all about?
America and NATO still have enough 155 shells for themselves, and the ones they gave away and that are doing what they were mostly made for anyway are going to good use.
This Russian invasion has really kicked off the Western arms manufacturing and military budgets, so fresh stocks of much of our old stuff is arriving and will be arriving for years to come.
Right, 90% of Ukrainians support Zelensky but there will be a coup, because somebody on dossier.substack.com says so. Okay
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