I remember back in the days Zelensky said that he would only have one presidential term, and now he claims that if the elections will be held, he will run for president for a second term 🤡 🤥
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Putin has installed himself as a brutal dictator for life. Which is worse in proportion?
Tbh, I wouldn't be surprised if Putin installed him in the first place.
Makes no sense. Zelenskyy defeated in an election Putin’s hand-picked thug. Putin lost control, which is one reason he invaded Ukraine.
That's what he made it look like, or at least that's the possibility I'm leaving open...
& this "war" started in 2014...
Some westerners have a serious hollywood movie level misunderstanding of Russia and how it operates. They view Putin as an all powerful dictator character from the 1980s USSR, when his authority in current Russia is only partial, and always at risk from other factions of the oligarchy. And when it comes to Ukraine, their ridiculous overlooking of CIA activity in Ukraine starting in 2013, and the RAND Reports describing how the Pentagon could provoke a civil war between western Ukrainian nazis, and Eastern Russian speaking Ukrainians, culminating in a possible Russian invasion, is a case example of useful idiocy. What the west has done in, and to Ukraine for their own ends, is just as disgusting and criminal as the Russia invasion. And this time, unlike the last time they did something like this (in Afghanistan in the 80s) it’s going to cost them.
There are plenty of Nazi factions in Russia, too, but assuming that background is valid, what should the Western position be now? Putin himself, on TV, clearly ordered his military to invade a peaceful neighboring country, which borders NATO. The invasion been disastrous for both countries and now there’s a military deadlock and growing chaos in Russia, which is depleting its army in Ukraine. Should the West just…leave? Have we not learned the primary lesson from WWII that we must not appease bullies? Complain all you wish about America, which is legal to do, unlike in Russia, but please suggest solutions, too.
Yes he did ! Seems like now Zelensky has the same desire 🤔
This is anyone given the power to make it so....
Not in the US. Yet
Yet.
That's the key word.
Another round of lockdowns is the true test if we'll just lay down and accept it happening in the future.
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So has the CIA
to give the human-angle to this,
I believe much of this comes down to optics/national morale
he doesn’t want to be seen as too-willing to step-down from what is undoubtedly a brutally difficult position
he’s showing he’s willing to see the conflict through; if the people will let him
