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To: NorseViking
The rest is history because all the promises were fake.

What promises you stinking filthy liar? He campaigned as Pro-NATO, not recognizing Donbas or granting immunity, and in no way can be described as a Pro-Russian shill, as you seem to be implying with your twisted interpretation of his positions:

"Zelensky supported the 2013–14 Euromaidan movement. During the war in Donbas, he actively supported the Ukrainian army.[15] Zelensky helped fund a volunteer battalion fighting on Donbas.[135]

In a 2014 interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda v Ukraine, Zelensky said that he would have liked to pay a visit to Crimea, but would avoid it because "armed people are there".[136] In August 2014, Zelensky performed for Ukrainian troops in Mariupol and later his studio donated a million hryvnias to the Ukrainian army.[137]

During his presidential campaign, Zelensky said that he supported Ukraine becoming a member of the European Union and NATO, but he said Ukrainian voters should decide on the country's membership of these two organisations in referenda.[138] At the same time, he believed that the Ukrainian people had already chosen "eurointegration".[138][139] Zelensky's close advisor Ivan Bakanov also said that Zelensky's policy is supportive of membership of both the EU and NATO, and proposes holding referendums on membership.[140] Zelensky's electoral programme claimed that Ukrainian NATO membership is "the choice of the Maidan and the course that is enshrined in the Constitution, in addition, it is an instrument for strengthening our defense capability".[141] The program states that Ukraine should set the goal to apply for a NATO Membership Action Plan in 2024.[141] The programme also states that Zelensky "will do everything to ensure" that Ukraine can apply for European Union membership in 2024.[142] Two days before the second round, Zelensky stated that he wanted to build "a strong, powerful, free Ukraine, which is not the younger sister of Russia, which is not a corrupt partner of Europe, but our independent Ukraine".[143]

Zelensky promised that his first bill, "On People's Power", will provide a mechanism for referendums.[144] This promise was not kept, as his first submitted bill was a law on public procurement of elections.[144] He also promised bills to fight corruption, including removal of immunity from the president of the country, members of the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian parliament) and judges, a law about impeachment, reform of election laws, and providing efficient trial by jury. He promised to bring the salary for military personnel "to the level of NATO standards".[145]

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In an interview in December 2018, Zelensky stated that as president he would try to end the ongoing war in Donbas by negotiating with Russia.[147][148] As he considered the leaders of the Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic (DPR and LPR) to be Russia's "puppets", it would "make no sense to speak with them".[148] He did not rule out holding a referendum on the issue.[149][148] In an interview published three days before the 2019 presidential election (on 21 April) Zelensky stated that he was against granting the Donbas region "special status".[150] In the interview he also said that if he were elected president he would not sign a law on amnesty for the militants of the DPR and LPR.[150]

" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelensky

80 posted on 12/16/2021 7:46:39 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

Look at the TV series “Servant of the people”. It was his true campaign.


81 posted on 12/16/2021 7:48:59 PM PST by NorseViking
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