Posted on 02/22/2023 3:52:43 AM PST by Timber Rattler
Not long after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, a year ago this week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky found himself in a safe room beneath Kyiv’s government complex with the voice of the Belarusian president booming over the phone.
Alexander Lukashenko, one of the Kremlin’s key allies, was inviting a delegation of officials to Minsk to negotiate an end to the war that Russia had launched just three days earlier, according to Andriy Sybiha, the deputy head of Ukraine’s presidential office, who was in the room for the call.
Zelensky was incensed at the invitation to another negotiation — recalling talks over the conflict in Ukraine’s east, known as “Minsk 1” and “Minsk 2,” that took place in the Belarusian capital in 2014 and 2015 — in which Kyiv was forced to make concessions to the Kremlin under the threat of battlefield losses.
“There will be no Minsk,” Zelensky said, according to Sybiha. “There will be no Minsk 3.”
Zelensky’s refusal to entertain another Minsk negotiation — despite Russian attack helicopters, fighter jets and tanks descending on Kyiv — showed how the Ukrainian leader was hardening in the face of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threat, a process that began many months before the invasion and accelerated as the war unfolded.
The comedian turned president refused offers to be spirited away to safety and emerged as a far fiercer foe than Moscow has expected, part of a broader transformation that has cemented his global reputation as a hard-bitten wartime leader.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
So you’re drawing comparisons?
A Washington Post cat bath.
I assume not a word is true.
You should launch a neocon version of the Babylon Bee. This stuff is funny.
When the WP leads off the article by claiming that this midget clown who plays the piano with his shmekel even spent so much as two hours in a trench — let alone two years — you know you’re reading Swamp propaganda.
I see you are coming around on your hero, oligarch Zelensky. Your media masters sold St. Zelensky to Biden’s hinterland stooges as a modern day Churchill. Now you must have picked up a change of attitude down at your media masters’ feeding trough. You have downgraded your corrupt Uke oligarch to JFK status. Appears the siren call of Putin stoogism is beginning to sway your big guy’s favorite hinterland useful idiot.
Hmmm....
Why are you so hostile? Piano envy?
During the 2019 elections in Ukraine Russia supported Zelensky hoping his inexperience is their win.
I was watching the Ukrainian elections and hoped for Poroshenko to win having the same fear.
Turns out I was wrong. Zelensky was very much what Ukraine needed.
In February last year after Russians started their massive invasion Biden offered to extract him to safety, where he could tour the conference circles as president in exile and that short inexperienced charismatic man said “I need ammo, not a ride”.
He had made the decision to keep fighting and didn’t put his own life above everything else and that was great for the Ukrainian people.
Except that Churchill and Hitler never met, and Hitler feared Churchill from the start. So that particular comparison, in that specific perspective, does not work.
But Kennedy-Khrushchev and Zelensky-Putin is indeed analogous. Who got the best of whom during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Bad Timber Rattler! Bad, bad, bad Timber Rattler!
You forgot the projectile barf alert!
From the article:
Zelensky took power in 2019 brimming with youthful sincerity about building a new European Ukraine and espousing idealism about making peace with Russia — positions that helped him defeat his more nationalist, hard-line opponent, Petro Poroshenko, with a resounding 73 percent of the vote.
As an entertainer, Zelensky had long articulated pro-European views through his skits and characters and often imbued his jokes with a skepticism of Moscow. At the same time, he primarily spoke Russian, grew up in a Russian-speaking family in the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih and enjoyed significant fame across Russia as an actor. He was seen as the candidate more pragmatic about Moscow.
Too much coke and steroids.
...despite Russian attack helicopters, fighter jets and tanks descending on Kyiv ...
He's hallucinating now. Too much coke and steroids.
Zelensky is just a grifting puppet leading Ukraine to its total destruction, he sure as hell isn’t any kind of hero.
Uh, yeah, Zelvis is just like JFK.
“Trenches”....meeting Ben Stiller and other photo ops is a real grind.
Pravda on the Potomac.
“A year in the trenches has hardened Ukraine’s president”
Does this mean he’ll no longer be able to play the piano with his schlong?
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