Like Reagan, Zelenskiy is an actor by trade. (He played the president on the Ukrainian TV show 'Servant of the People.')
Posted on 05/21/2019 9:57:37 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
On May 20th, Zelenskiy was sworn in as [Ukraine's] head of state. His political background and campaign were highly unorthodox...On the day Moscow was rocked by yet another censorship scandal, Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s inspiring inaugural speech gave Russians plenty of food for thought.
It must have been an affront for Putin to hear the president of the neighboring country quote a former president of our main geopolitical enemy: “The government does not solve our problems, the government is our problem!”
What's more, it must be quite strange to hear Zelenskiy announce that “the president is not an icon or an idol,” and that his portraits should not be on the wall in government offices - it'd be better if officials have pictures of their children on display: it topples the power vertical by establishing its responsibility to the future, not to the superiors.
In his speech, he suggested that the responsibility for building a new, successful and happy country falls on everyone. Therefore each and every Ukrainian living both in Ukraine or abroad is deemed necessary and important. Zelenskiy continued by saying that Ukraine has lost more than just territory in the Crimea and Donbass: it lost “the most important thing - its people”.
His speech also made a discernable reference to the U.S. Declaration of Independence (also not entirely familiar to Russian ears), which recognizes the undeniable human right to the pursuit of happiness.
Putin has not congratulated Zelenskiy on his inauguration (or on the election results) - it seems there hasn't been a politician leading Ukraine with such an alien understanding of politics from that of the Kremlin's. But alien does not mean abhorrent: whether Russia likes it or not, the oft-heard phrase “you want it like in Ukraine” risks completely losing the negative connotation it once had.
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Like Reagan, Zelenskiy is an actor by trade. (He played the president on the Ukrainian TV show 'Servant of the People.')
His very first official act was to dissolve parliament. He claims it is because it is full of his political enemies.
New elections in August.
I hope he has a food taster.
Yes the Poroshenko groupies will try their best to make things difficult but I believe the country is on the up and up! With a long way to go of course.
“Yes the Poroshenko groupies will try their best to make things difficult”
Aren’t they legally elected “Poroshenko groupies”?
One thing for sure it that the guy is a lot like Trump. He is absolute noob in politics and right into the middle of the very corrupt system.
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