Posted on 06/24/2024 9:35:11 PM PDT by bimboeruption
As the war situation gets more difficult by the day, and against the background of his expired Presidential mandate in May, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has his reasons to be worried about being driven out of power the hard way.
To prevent this outcome, the embattled leader is ordering a complete purge of the Department of State Protection, after members were arrested on suspicion of plotting assassinations.
Reuters reported:
“President Volodymyr Zelensky told the new chief of Ukraine’s state guard service to clear its ranks of people discrediting it after two of its officers were accused of plotting to assassinate senior officials.
The state security service (SBU) said last month that it had caught two guard service colonels accused of cooperating with Russia to plot the assassination of Zelensky and other officials, including military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov.
The guard service provides security for various government officials.”
When introducing the new head of the Department Colonel Oleksiy Morozov, Zelensky said his main task was ‘to ensure that only those who see their future tied with Ukraine join the agency’.
These were his first comments since the agents were arrested.
“‘And, of course, the agency must be cleared of anyone who chooses not Ukraine for themselves or discredits the state guard service’, he said on Telegram.”
Zelensky lost a good deal of popularity since the start of the war, and increasingly more so after dismissing his main political rival, General Valery Zaluzhny, from the position of Commander in Chief.
Add to that the fact that his mandate has expired and he is ruling out of Martial law powers, and you have an explosive situation.
Back in May, Ukrainian SBU arrested two colonels in the state guard service, accused of plotting the assassination of Zelensky and other top officials – and after that, the head of the State Guards was also dismissed.
Zelensky remains popular in Ukraine. They know that they have no choice but to fight.
The Department of State Protection should let Zelensky be President half of the time, they just need to decide which way to divide Zelensky, vertically or horizontally.
>>>>Zelensky remains popular in Ukraine.<<<<
Do you have a source for this info?
The announcement by Ukraine's president on Monday came hours after a scathing social media post implicitly accused the general of “killing more Ukrainian soldiers than any Russian general.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/world/europe/zelensky-ukraine-general-dismissed.html
U.s. department of state. 🤔
“U.s. department of state.”
Somewhat suspicious. Is Zelensky wearing out his welcome with the deep state? Remember, Biden didn’t bother to show up at his Swiss “peace conference”.
Two years ago, it was time for that. He didn’t run and abandon his post, and now you think he will? Elections at a time like this, with part of the country under occupation and a war on with a ginormous neighbor that has nukes, is a legitimate reason to postpone elections.
serious question: how popular is he if he’s having to recruit fighters from the prison ranks?
They have the option of sitting down at the peace table. The people of Ukraine have not been allowed to have elections to voice their say on what their government has done, and is still doing. Zelensky took away the ability of media outlets to be independent. He put them all under control of the central government. He got rid of opposing political parties. He closed Orthodox churches affiliated with Russia, leaving many people unable to attend masses at the church they always went to. He's banned men from the age of 18-60 from leaving the country. When you take away people's rights to vote on such things as that, that's a sure way to lose the people's support.
How did we feel when the 2020 election was stolen? How have we felt since then? Republicans who voted for Trump had their votes disenfranchised in 2020, cancelled out by a massive amount of fraudulent ballots. RATS would prefer us not to be able to vote at all. And if they ever get the chance, they will do just that, one way or another. They have no respect for the Constitution.
The longer the Ukraine people are banned from voting to have a say in what is going on in their country, the more they will become alienated from their government.
I think that is BS.
According to Putin, we will ditch Zelensky next year.
We will pin the unpopular decisions on him, such as the mobilization etc. and then bring a new guy in.
We’ll use additional aid money as leverage to get Mr Z and others to agree to a transition of power.
As of 20 May, Mr. Z is a dictator. The Ukraine has no Constitutional provisions for him cancelling the elections and sticking around as he did. That was done because we know he’d likely lose any sort of elections (frankly he’s unpopular) and wanted him to stick around for a bit longer.
This is an opinion piece on this topic: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-as-a-ukrainian-im-not-surprised-by-volodymyr-zelenskys-declining/
Steiner...
Remember that Reuters has a contract with TASS to protect. No longer an objective source when it comes to Moscow matters.
The US held an election in 1864 during the Civil War.
Interviews of Ukrainians lining up at conscription offices.
“Do you have a source for this info?”
Most likely Zelensky’s wife.
“They have the option of sitting down at the peace table.”
You got a problem with the Neocons starting World War 3 over Ukraine or something?
Come on, man, get with it. What fun will it be for a kids and grandkids if we don’t give them a nuclear wasteland to remember us by?
“How did we feel when the 2020 election was stolen?”
I suspect that the Zeepers were QUITE HAPPY. Look at what resulted, their long-sought war against Ruzzia.
The US is not in any way comparable to Ukraine. For one thing, it took four score and seven years ‘til there was a civil war, and the institutions of a Republic were well established by then. For another, both the North and the South are substantial land masses, and the South, while smaller, was not dominated by the North for three hundred years. Ukraine, in contrast, is only about the size of Texas, and has had an ongoing civil war since 2014, and only became independent for the first time in 1991, and has a gigantic neighbor with nuclear bombs that keeps looking at Ukraine like a starving bear looks at a tethered goat. Republican institutions, for that matter, are a new concept entirely to Ukraine, which was, like the rest of the Soviet Union, a corrupt kleptocracy headed by absolute dictators, with little to no freedom. Also, unlike the US Constitution, the Ukrainian constitution specifically provides for a “state of emergency,” such as civil war or invasion by Russia, and one of the provisions is for a suspension of elections. During the US War Between the States (tip of the hat to southerners there), for that matter, there was a suspension of civil liberties, such as free speech and habeas corpus. And likewise during both world wars, private mail was read by the government, in WW II, Japanese and German nationals were interned, and in the case of the Japanese, even American-born and naturalized citizens were interned as well. Likewise, in the run up to an anticipated war with France that ended up being with England, the Alien and Sedition Act was passed. There were still elections since no such war materialized until Jefferson’s presidency, but at the time Congress passed that law in anticipation of a war.
Your comparison to the election of 1864 is therefore both shallow, and a bad comparison. During wars, some elements of civil society get suspended, the severity of the suspension depending on the severity of the threat that the war is meant to combat. The severity of the war in Ukraine, while it makes for fun chit chat and flame wars on line, is deadly serious to Ukrainians, and while I wish elections were held as scheduled, I can’t judge the Ukrainians, not having walked a mile in their big, black boots.
I live in a country at war myself, but fortunately, Hamas and Hizbollah and pals are punk-a@@ed pikers compared to the giant Medvedevnaya Rodina. I hope we never have to deal with such a threat, but Ukraine and Zelensky must. I wish them the best of luck in overcoming both Putin and Biden.
If your assertion is correct, there’s no good reason not to hold elections.
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