He sounds just like a zeeper. 😂
Posted on 06/08/2024 8:11:37 PM PDT by bimboeruption
With his constitutional Presidential mandate expired, the ‘champion for democracy’, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky is facing the discredit by the Russian enemies.
Recently re-elected in a landslide, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s has been repeatedly clear about how Moscow sees the Ukrainian leader as lacking legitimacy.
For the first time, in a press conference in France alongside President Emmanuel Macron, Zelensky addressed the allegations and dismissed them.
Reuters reported:
President Volodymyr Zelensky said his legitimacy is recognized and determined by the Ukrainian people while criticizing that of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“‘President Zelensky’s legitimacy is recognized by the people of Ukraine. Our people are free. Putin’s legitimacy is recognized only by comrade Putin’, he told a press conference in Paris.”
As we see, the leader who cancelled elections sees himself as more legitimate than the one who held them and won in a landslide. So it goes.
The Presidential elections in Ukraine were supposed to take place this spring, and by late May, Zelensky’s five-year term of office ended.
Zelensky now is ruling by force of Martial law in his country.
“However, martial law introduced following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 bans any wartime election. The constitution says the president serves until a newly elected one takes office.
Putin claimed several times that Zelensky is illegitimate after his five-year term ended this May.”
Putin says that the only Ukrainian authority Russia recognizes as of now is the speaker of Parliament, Ruslan Stefanchuk.
But Western leaders – who are after all Ukraine’s sponsors and handlers – have not questioned Zelensky’s legitimacy.
Zelensky’s response comes days after Putin started claiming that presidential power should be shifted to speaker of Ukraine’s parliament Stefanchuk.
It is perhaps not a great sign that Zelensky is now talking of himself in the third person. Kyiv Independent reported him as saying.: “It is the people of Ukraine who elect him, and I am very grateful for their support. Our people are free. This is what we are fighting for.”
The latest presidential election should have been held on March 31, 2024, with Zelensky’s term would ending on May 20.
Speaker Ruslan Stefanchuk also dismissed Putin’s claims about Zelensky’s legitimacy; “Volodymyr Zelensky remains and will remain Ukraine’s president until the end of martial law. All this is in accordance with Ukraine’s Constitution and laws.”
“Churchill had to wait until WWII ended before an election could take place in the UK.”
Not quite. The war in the Pacific was still going. Also, it is not the same as the Churchill war government. the British government during the war was a national coalition where all the major parties were included.
Because Labour actually was the one party that talked about what they would do Post-War. The Tories sat on their butts, and said, “We’ve got Churchill!”
Obviously Russia wasn't going to allow a free and fair election on their occupied territory, any more than they did in 2014 with their absurd "referendum", which had two choices, a.) Russian annexation now, or b.) Russian annexation next month.
“The war in the Pacific, which was 99% an American war, had just five weeks to go.”
Hindsight is 20-20. At that time no one had any idea the war was going to end that quickly. We were getting ready to launch Operation Downfall. the two invasions of the Home Islands. (On a side note, my Dad was in the Philippines getting amphibious landing training.) Oh yeah, you also denigrated the large British Commonwealth contributions to the Pacific theater operations with your 99% remark.
True, but irrelevant. As far as the home islands were concerned, the war was over.
Sigh. More bad history from you. Operation Olympic and operation Coronet were going to be bigger operations than Overlord, and you call irrelevant. Just because it didn’t happen doesn’t make it irrelevant. Since you’re a foreigner, I’ll forgive your ignorance of American history.
Those countries haven’t put sanctions on Russia. The best way to drive a nation into the arms of your enemies is to sanction them up the arse, and fight proxy wars with them.
He sounds just like a zeeper. 😂
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Sigh yourself. As far as the working-class British electorate was concerned, the war was over. They weren't going to be bombed or rocketed anymore. No more blackouts. The overpaid, oversexed Americans could start to go home. And among all the other social issues pushed aside by the war, the coal miners remembered that they hated Churchill. That's some of what counted in the July general election. You really need to get off your high horse.
Free to spend our aid money. Someone is rich and free.
What a game money laundering is
Couple that with the billions stolen by Somalis and corrupt democrats.
Buying rolls Royce’s. Yacht in Monaco.
They are free all right.
All because the idiot in the White House is getting his 10% for the foundation while he shits has pants. If I was able to steal hundreds of millions, I’d shit my pants too. Freedom to not use a toilet. Shit like the wild birds do. Shit where you feel like. Free as a bird.
Offering faulty British history as an argument to Biden's support of Zelensky's current dictatorship suggests a Very Low IQ.
Opposition parties banned.
State control of media.
Arrest for opposing Z’s war policies.
Church shut down.
Yeah, sounds really free.
you can take it to the bank the current administration is figuring out how just HOW to make sure we don’t have a 2024 election as we write.
Low IQ? It takes the kind of talent necessary to be an MI6 CIA propagandist to think up garbage arguments like that.
💯😂
What the heck is he talking about now? Zelensky a dictator? Does not the Verkhovna Rada still meet? Does it not vote on matters concerning the nation? Does it not enact laws, including extensions of the martial law declaration, (60 days at a time, I believe, pending cessation of the Russian invasion)?
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/how-ukraines-parliament-functions-during-wartime
Where DO these people get the idea that Zelensky is a dictator? Moscow, maybe? Nah, Ruzzians never lie, we all know that. Don't we?
His term expired on 5/20/24 yet he remains in power and Biden and ppl like you support him.
” the working-class British electorate”
Ha, you really expose yourself as a foreigner pretending to be an American with this. Also, your ethnic hatred for the Russian people is un-American. our Democrat party is busy stirring up racial and religious hatred here. We don’t need foreigners coming here and bringing those Old World ethnic hatreds here on top of that.
The Ukes were what they thought was free prior to the war. Well, some were not. They were warred upon by their own country because they spoke a different language and had some different customs. Zelensky, to get elected, promised he would put a stop to that but he never did.
Seems Ukraine was never free really. Many countries including our own have set up shop in their country and have been for years. Even setting up a color revolution and installing a person to do our bidding.
Kind of reminds me of the 2020 election steal here and the installation of Joe Biden and the Jan 6th debacle.
Perhaps having an election in Ukraine just might get Zelensky booted and maybe they will elect someone to end this proxy war where they do the dying. That is why they aren’t having an election.
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