The main opposition party with Poroshenko is still active and I see Ukrainian news sources on Twitter openly criticizing the government or the armed forces when they are unhappy about something.
They have more of a free press than we do.
Poroshenko is currently facing impeachment charges that would put him in jail and has left the country.
The leader of the #3 party already is imprisoned.
Most other opposition parties are dissolved.
I noticed your message assumed that all Ukrainians are on the same page in this conflict.
Keep in mind that more than one third (1/3) of all troops the Ukrainian government is fighting against are... Ukrainian.
Lincoln didn’t bad the Democratic Party during the Civil War. Explain away that.
Abraham Lincoln did the same thing during the American Civil War when he suspended the writ of habeas corpus.
So what did we expect Zelensky to do? Bend over for the Russians?
It’s a war for national existence. You can’t seriously believe the Ukrainians would allow pro-Russian political parties to continue to function and pro-Russian propaganda to continue to be broadcast? For them this is the equivalent of WWII.
Spot on. Putinists and their useful idiots just grasp anything handy they think they can hammer Ukraine with. They are too dim-witted or depraved in support of Russian genocide of Ukrainians to realize how dumb this talking point is.
We're in one right here and you haven't a clue.
“It’s a war for national existence.”
Correct. Putin invaded. Ukraine is constrained natinal fight to within its own borders... much to Purin’s dismay. He hasn’t been able to ‘provoke’ them into simiar border response.
“It’s a war for national existence. You can’t seriously believe the Ukrainians would allow pro-Russian political parties to continue to function and pro-Russian propaganda to continue to be broadcast? For them this is the equivalent of WWII.”
The putanistas on Free Republic cannot stand the thought that President Zelenskyy is cleaning our the Ukrainian ‘political swamp’ like President Trump did. That is why U.S. military calls President Zelenskyy Trump of Ukraine.
As a side note, if Ze wasn’t a dictator there wouldn’t be any fight.
You are wrong. They CAN and DO believe those things. These people are on Putin’s side. They don’t care about Ukraine or the people living in it.
They are truly vile.