Posted on 01/22/2024 6:16:25 PM PST by hardspunned
His country is at war, and he knows everyone is supposed to rally behind the flag and the President. But Vitaly Klitschko says he also has a responsibility to speak out about what he sees as Ukraine’s drift away from the democratic principles it’s supposed to be fighting for.
In the eyes of the mayor of Kyiv, his country is heading in the wrong direction, becoming increasingly autocratic. For the past 23 months, Ukraine’s main television channels have broadcast a single program, United News Telemarathon, that Mr. Klitschko says allows little space for dissenting voices – while journalists critical of President Volodymyr Zelensky and his administration have come under pressure. Mr. Klitschko says more than 200 mayors and local council heads around the country have been replaced with military administrators since the Russian invasion began in February, 2022.
Both measures were adopted under the martial law Mr. Zelensky declared in response to the attack. But Mr. Klitschko worries that the freedoms and reforms Ukrainians fought for over the course of two pro-Western revolutions earlier this century are being undone.
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That right there is a career ender. Very likely a life ender.
His country is at war, and he knows everyone is supposed to rally behind the flag and the President. But Vitaly Klitschko says he also has a responsibility to speak out about what he sees as Ukraine’s drift away from the democratic principles it’s supposed to be fighting for.
In before the Neocon Cheerleaders calling Klitschko a Putin Puppet!!!!
It appears that Z is about to sack his only other heard critic, Commander in Chief Zaluzhnyi and will replace him with his loyal intelligence chief, Budanov. This place is beginning to reek of Stalinism.
I don’t think he makes it to the summer. The pressure’s too high. Unless NATO decides to take the big step.
Neocons/NATO won’t give up on Ukraine
They’ll promote an fund an insurgency / guerrilla war.
Valerii Zaluzhnyi may organize a coup and overthrow Zelensky. Then ask Putin for a ceasefire. Putin will demand the four oblasts, Zaluzhnyi agrees.
Sounds like a daily small step in "narrative change."
I want my money back. All of it. Now. Biden can send me reparations.
Ping.
Don’t care, up to our chin in Marxists here.
You got that right!
They've killed or wounded upwards of 1,000,000 Ukies with their insane war. It is a US/NATO war -- not a Ukraine war. The Ukies are just stupid and corrupt enough to sign up for the destruction of their country.
Way to go US/NATO. Protecting democracy by ravaging an entire country.
Not an easy question. What will you do if you are an Ukrainian and the Russians are invading your country?
They remember what it was like to be under the control of the Soviets.
Makes sense why they're fighting like hell
There is a real number, and it's about 150,000.
Meanwhile, the Ukies are suffering ( once again) horrendous losses at Avidivka,…18 armored vehicles, 1,000 casualties last night….only a matter of time before St Zelensky gets ousted by his military.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnWUBkXjrEs
“There is a real number, and it’s about 150,000.”
The Russian losses posted here on other threads are almost 400,000. Since Russia has four times the population this is not a good casualty ratio for Ukraine. eventually Ukraine will run out of bodies. Then what?
iirc Klitschko was referred to in Victoria Nuland’s phone call, and that he needed time to get experience before he was raised up in the ranks.
All part of the Obama plan.
Yep
A queer comic becomes “president” and things go to 💩...
Kind of parallels us with a senile pedo in charge....
Really. It's not that hard.
You honor the agreements like Minsk that you made, or better yet, you agree to a very favorable resolution within the first two months of the SMO to settle the whole affair. An agreement, by the way, that was stopped dead in its tracks by US/UK/NATO.
After all, the Ruskies were acting no different than we would act if China formed a military coalition with Mexico and Canada and placed missiles right on our border, now would they?
Think Tijauna and Juarez.
You know, like we did when Cuba placed missiles on their little island in 1962. We launched a monumental military assault and threatened WWIII over a few little missiles. Get it?
That may be true in your little mind.
If your number is true, why is Zelensky the homoclown dragging people off the street and recruiting Ukie women to go to the front line to be slaughtered?
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