Posted on 03/08/2022 11:50:16 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky quoted William Shakespeare and Winston Churchill in an emotional address to both houses of the United Kingdom Parliament which ultimately appealed to British “greatness” to make sure “Ukrainian skies are safe” and to categorise Russia as a “terrorist state”.
The Houses of Commons and Lords received an extraordinary address by the Ukrainian President on Tuesday afternoon, a short speech that expressed the Ukrainian experience of the renewed Russian invasion day-by-day for the past fortnight, and which also appealed to the United Kingdom to take further action.
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“No.”
Imagine Mussolini asking for protection from Hitler.
Decent men will always be roused by pugnacious men who when faced with overwhelming odds refuse to submit or run. However those same men if they are wise will not rush into war with a nuclear armed opponent or do things that are likely to lead to such a war. Emotional reactions that overwhelm sound analysis often lead to disaster.
In the Wokistan West both Shakespeare and Churchill are persona non grata. Dead old white guys.
You didn't know that Mussolini did ask for protection from Hitler? He was arrested and imprisoned by the Italian government, and was rescued by the Germans. He was taken to Germany and Hitler realized he had been reduced to a depressed slob. For at least another 1.5 years Mussolini was only the leader of Italy as a German puppet, he had no power, except what the Germans enforced.
Hitler also ask the Italians from protection from the Pope, but they refused to kidnap him.
Zelensky is doing his best to drag us into a war that would be a quality-of-life disaster for us as well as the Russians. Sorry, but the Ukraine is not worth a war that would benefit only the globalist left.
Not exactly the same.
The B list actor doth protest too much. This is much ado, about $oros/WEF.
So... he expects NATO to sacrifice the world for his personal shithole?
I thought he was slaughtering the Russians. 🙄
If Justin got him into politics, why isn’t he asking Canada for help?
The little nebbish looks and sounds ridiculous, costumed in a helmet and flak jacket.
Give me a break!
Now he’s Hamlet.
To Biden: “How now wit? Wither wander you?”
To anyone who asks where he is: “Be innocent of the knowledge dearest chuck.”
To Obama: “Now God help thee, poor monkey!”
To Russian troops: “Farewell, fair cruelty.”
Six interesting things you might not know about President Zelensky.
1. Elected In Landslide: Zelensky won Ukraine’s 2019 presidential election, beating incumbent Petro Poroshenko. Zelensky won all but one voting region of the country and won 73.2% of the popular vote.
2. Famous Actor Before Presidency: Zelensky portrayed a president on a series called “Servant of the People.”
The satirical show stars Zelensky as a teacher who accidentally becomes president of Ukraine. The character on the show is elected after a rant about corruption goes viral on social media and inspires the country.
3. Viktor Volodymyrovych Medvedchuk chairman of the pro-Russia political organization: Ukrainian Choice. Komsomol activist under the patronage of the KGB. This fact helped him to avoid going to jail in 1974. Mevedchuk established close relations with Putin, and in 2004 Putin became the godfather of Medvedchuk’s daughter. Also in 2004, Medvedchuk was accused of organizing fraud in the presidential election. In February 2019, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine launched an investigation accusing Medvedchuk of high treason and encroachment on the territorial integrity of Ukraine.
[In addition to numerous assets in real estate, pipelines, the oil, gas, coal businesses, as well as media owned by close partners and associates of Medvedchuk in Ukraine, the company of Medvedchuk’s wife, Oksana Marchenko, won a tender for the development of one of the three largest oil fields of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug in Russia. Viktor Medvedchuk admitted that the company was registered to his spouse to avoid the sanctions.]
In 2021, the State Bureau of Investigation (SBI) of Ukraine opened criminal proceedings on treason against Medvedchuk and another MP from Medvedchuk’s party, Taras Kozak.
On April 11, 2021, Viktor Medvedchuk and Taras Kozak were charged with high treason accused of: Direct cooperation with the Kremlin: treason to Ukraine through his role cooperating with the KGB, Putin, Russian oil and gas companies.
** Medvedchuk was placed under house arrest.
4. Zelensky won Ukrainian version of international reality show “Dancing with the Stars.”
5. Large Social Media Following: Zelensky entered the presidency with a large following that helped him communicate and appeal to voters.
Zelensky has 14.1 million followers on Instagram & 4.6 million followers on Twitter.
6. Ukrainian President Zelensky graduated from Kyiv National Economic in 2000 with a law degree
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