If you are responsible for millions of people during a total war you had better be “pushy”. Many lives are at stake, on every word.
First of all, it's not a total war. It's a proxy war with Russia that U.S. taxpayers have been funding for the past four years. Billions of dollars have been sent, that can't be account for.
Secondly, if Zelensky was so concerned about the lives of his fellow Ukrainians, he would have asked his people if they wanted to continue the war by holding elections so all those people he is responsible for, could have a say in what happens to them.
You sound like Zelensky's Hollywood agent promoting him for a role.
You can be assertive without being an assh0le.
That Zelensky is an assh0le and he’s a slimy grifter. You may admire somebody who behaves in the egregious manner he did as a guest at the White House, but most of us here do not.