Posted on 10/31/2023 9:51:49 AM PDT by Kazan
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is angry at the West and feels betrayed – as he tries to pull his regime together for further resistance.
Simon Schuster wrote a 3000+ word profile for Time Magazine on the wartime leader that is illuminating in so many ways, and goes much beyond the usual Western propaganda in acknowledging the realities on the ground.
Schuster had a tremendous amount of access, including with top aides that were ‘talking out of school’ – which may reveal an internal process of preparing public opinion for his replacement.
He paints Zelensky as an exhausted leader, from the demands of leadership during the war – but also ‘the persistent need to convince his allies that, with their help, Ukraine can win’.
This bit by Kiev’s leader tells a lot about the present situation: “’Nobody believes in our victory like I do. Nobody. […] ‘Takes all your power, your energy. You understand? It takes so much of everything. […] The scariest thing is that part of the world got used to the war in Ukraine. Exhaustion with the war rolls along like a wave. You see it in the United States, in Europe. And we see that as soon as they start to get a little tired, it becomes like a show to them: ‘I can’t watch this rerun for the 10th time’’.”
Schuster followed Zelensky and his team back to Kyiv, where a member of his circle described him as: “Angry.”
“The usual sparkle of his optimism, his sense of humor, his tendency to liven up a meeting in the war room with a bit of banter or a bawdy joke, none of that has survived into the second year of all-out war. ‘Now he walks in, gets the updates, gives the orders, and walks out’, says one longtime member of his team. Another tells me that, most of all, Zelensky feels betrayed by his Western allies. They have left him without the means to win the war, only the means to survive it.[…] ‘He deludes himself’, one of his closest aides tells me in frustration. ‘We’re out of options. We’re not winning. But try telling him that’.”
His vain belief in Ukraine’s ultimate victory is ‘verging on the messianic’.
“Zelensky remains dead set against even a temporary truce. ‘For us it would mean leaving this wound open for future generations'”.
The Time correspondent also found out from insiders that ‘People are stealing like there’s no tomorrow’.
How does he keep attention on Ukraine, now? How does he rally the democratic world to its cause?
“’It’s logical’, Zelensky tells me. ‘Of course we lose out from the events in the Middle East. People are dying, and the world’s help is needed there to save lives, to save humanity’. Zelensky […] asked the Israeli government for permission to visit their country in a show of solidarity. The answer appeared the following week in Israeli media reports: ‘The time is not right’.”
Gee, that’s too bad.
Whenever anything goes wrong for a national leader sources come out of the woodwork with “the walls are closing in stories.” True or not, the stories aren’t hard to write up.
He's right in a way. This was never about protecting Ukraine. To the MIC, this was nothing but a cash cow.
Sorry but I looked everywhere and just could not find a violin small enough to play. Frig him we have spent enough already and most of it stolen
I would say they have lost this war and will be lucky if Russia leaves them a postage Stamp size piece of land for native youcrainians to live on.
“Cocaine’s a helluva drug…”
Rick James
Must be getting close to the time he flies out in the middle of the night to some multimillion-dollar retreat in his private jet and lives off the millions he’s siphoned off of the aid we’ve given him.
“Cocaine’s a helluva drug…”
That’s part of it. The other part is the familiar pattern of being puffed up, and later abandoned by the USA:
“Zelensky feels betrayed by his Western allies. They have left him without the means to win the war, ...”
KMT, Korea, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Samoza, Shah of Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan... get ready to add Ukraine to this list.
BINGO!
“Isn’t that a shame.”
- Seinfeld
Russia gets new borders. Zelensky and his crew make huge amounts of $$$ off the rebuilding money from the US.
Poor
Williams
Megan
Mom
Damn it, I said GIBS-ME-THE-DAMNED Billions of American dollars!
At this point our best scenario is that Ukraine unconditionally surrenders to Russia.
Otherwise America is going to get saddled with a 10 Trillon dollar Marshall Plan to rebuild Ukraine.
The Russians should get saddled with that expense.
Let the Russians fix Ukraine. They started it and the war would have been over in a month if the US had just stayed out of it. Instead my grandchildren are going to be paying for this useless war for the rest of their lives.
Ukraine was not worth a dollar of American taxpayer money. It was just the piggy bank for corrupt democrats and stupid neo-cons. That’s why they funneled all that taxpayer money to Ukraine. Either blackmail or filthy lucre is the motivation for our continued funding of a clear lost cause.
“…The Time correspondent also found out from insiders that ‘People are stealing like there’s no tomorrow’….”
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Wait until the Ukrainian military situation deteriorates further. The corruption will spread with those who have resisted temptation saying to themselves “I had better get mine while the gettings good - everybody else is doing it.
Gay adoption
Grooming
Jihad - shariah - alqueerda ( diversity )
“Ukraine’s Zelensky Is Angry, Feels Betrayed by the West”
Most people with a shred of common sense and a rudimentary grasp of U.S. foreign policy knew this would be the outcome.
So many lives wasted by Evil men and women.
I'm sure the Russians would be pleased to do so and get NATO out of their backyard.
This guys been delusional since day one... his inability to understand his nations true geopolitical place in the world has cost thousands of lives.
As far as I am concerned this man is Evil.
Why is it so hard for people to believe there are those who think Putin stinks and who also think Zelensky stinks. (And Biden stinks, too.)
If Ukraine had simply accepted neutrality, they could have appealed to Switzerland to teach them how to be neutral. They’d have become a thriving tourist trap on the black sea.
How anyone thinks that war makes money is beyond me. And when I saw my first charred body, I’d seen enough. I feel truly sorry for those Ukrainians and the Israelis, too.
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