Posted on 02/25/2025 7:17:15 PM PST by bimboeruption
I have known Volodymyr Zelensky very well for years. As a senior official personally appointed by Zelensky, I spoke to him many times a day and observed him closely both in public and privately. We parted on good terms and without rancour. I have no personal axe to grind. But today I cannot remain silent about how Zelensky is weakening Ukraine under the guise of war. As a result of this new climate of fear I must write these words under the veil of anonymity – a necessary precaution against retaliation from the very regime I once served.
It pains me to admit that at least some of what Donald Trump has said about Zelensky is true. While western politicians have rushed to condemn Trump and his vice president’s remarks, a quiet ripple of approval ran through large parts of Ukrainian society.
Ukraine has become a paradox: a nation fighting for its sovereignty while dismantling its own democratic foundations. For years, the West has indulged in the illusion of Zelensky as the ‘face of democracy’. In reality, he has undermined our democracy, institutions and economy, making Ukraine much weaker in the face of an existential threat – and in the process destroying our nation’s motivation to fight the Russian aggressor.
His first presidential term ended in May 2024, but with the war ongoing, no elections were held. Zelensky, who prolongs martial law every three months and has never thought about easing it, as European politicians are suggesting, claims that ‘the people don’t want elections’. The recent Ukrainian survey confirms this, with 65 per cent of Ukrainians not wanting to have elections throughout the war. But over half of Ukrainians wanted to see the end of the conflict as soon as possible, according to Gallup polling last year. That percentage might...
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Zeepers?
>>>>Help me, Obi-Wan Trump, you’re our only hope.<<<<
President Trump is more concerned about the people of Ukraine than Zelensky.
Trump IS their only hope.
‘ President Trump is more concerned about the people of Ukraine than Zelensky.’
Surrendering the country to Russia after being invaded is helping your country?
Ending the war and restoring democracy can preserve Ukraine.
Zelensky has thrown up every obstacle he can to derail peace talks.
Every day he shoves more of his fellow Ukrainians into the meat grinder. Their lives mean nothing to him. If they did, he’d work toward peace.
How would surrendering to Russia restore democracy?
That, right there. 👆👆👆
Damn.
Ukraine has become a paradox: a nation fighting for its sovereignty while dismantling its own democratic foundations. For years, the West has indulged in the illusion of Zelensky as the ‘face of democracy’. In reality, he has undermined our democracy, institutions and economy, making Ukraine much weaker in the face of an existential threat – and in the process destroying our nation’s motivation to fight the Russian aggressor.
I wonder how many U.S. taxpayer dollars Oleksiy Kosach put in his pocket these past four years.
Ukes want no elections according to a, lol, gallop poll from Last Year, lol,-)
>>>>How would surrendering to Russia restore democracy?<<<<
Who’s talking “surrender”?
Not President Trump. He’s talking “cease fire” and “peace talks”, but the smuf nazi doesn’t want to hear it.
>>>>Ukes want no elections according to a, lol, gallop poll from Last Year, lol,-)<<<<
Is there a poll anywhere in the world that isn’t skewed?
The reality of war.
Young men and women take up arms on both sides, mostly men. Both sides at an infantry level are innocent and mere pawns. They die on each side. They see their brothers and sisters in arms die and become transformed into killing machines capable of extremism, great extremism and cruelty in war. My Lai was not and accident, it was the insanity of war. We killed with abandon and many innocents though it was a Viet Cong village. That village had killed us. We killed them and many innocents. It no longer becomes God, Nation and duty. It becomes kill they enemy that killed my brother in war.
That is the ugly reality of war. A good man or woman can be transformed into a total killing machine with out morality nor conscious when they have their comrades in war fall in battle. They do have a family back home. In war their only family is the person next to them with a rifle.
The homoerotic dancer is a tyrant? Color me shocked /s
I am a life long republican, but……
Long live anonymous sources 😎
I think his wanting mineral rights is a smart move - if we have Americans working to get these resources, any attacks on them will be attacks on us - and I doubt Russia wants to open that can of worms...
So, no different than the EU. Ukraine, in its reduced size, will be a perfect addition to it. Still not America's circus.
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