Ukraine’s President Is in over His Head(nytimes.com)
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Ukraine’s President Is in over His Head
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/21/opinion/ukraine-russia-zelensky-putin.html
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February 21st. That aged about as well as most newspaper columnists' brayings.
No, this has aged well. If anything western narratives have changed to paint him as a hero. Putin is a megalomaniac corrupt dictator. There is no point fighting him. Zelensky could concede the four points and end the war but he chose to force all men to fight for him.
Either he is power hungry or US is forcing him to cling on to his title. Today he suspended all left and socialist parties including the party that got the second highest votes https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/3/21/why-did-ukraine...
Also keep in mind that Medvedchuk got more votes than him but Zelensky had him arrested.
Same feces as Russia just a different orifice.
BBC article in 2014 on rise of neo-nazism in Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SBo0akeDMY
Human Rights Watch on Ukraine killing civilians https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/07/24/ukraine-unguided-rockets...
Either he is power hungry or US is forcing him to cling on to his title. Today he suspended all left and socialist parties including the party that got the second highest votes https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/3/21/why-did-ukraine...
Also keep in mind that Medvedchuk got more votes than him but Zelensky had him arrested.
Same feces as Russia just a different orifice.
BBC article in 2014 on rise of neo-nazism in Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SBo0akeDMY
Human Rights Watch on Ukraine killing civilians https://www.hrw.org/news/2014/07/24/ukraine-unguided-rockets...
Lots of new accounts with lots of opinions lately..
> Zelensky could concede the four points and end the war but he chose to force all men to fight for him.
I mean a person getting raped can also stop the rape by convincing themselves that the act is consensual, right?
> Zelensky could concede the four points and end the war but he chose to force all men to fight for him.
I mean a person getting raped can also stop the rape by convincing themselves that the act is consensual, right?
> Putin is a megalomaniac corrupt dictator. There is no point fighting him.
There's every point in fighting him. Capitulation and submission are never appealing propositions.
> Zelensky could concede the four points and end the war but he chose to force all men to fight for him.
Putin could end the war but he chose to send conscripts to fight for him.
There's every point in fighting him. Capitulation and submission are never appealing propositions.
> Zelensky could concede the four points and end the war but he chose to force all men to fight for him.
Putin could end the war but he chose to send conscripts to fight for him.
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Can't read the paywalled article, so also don't know when it was written, but I will speak in the present.
Of course any leader elected in peace is out of his depth in wartime. There aren't that many war-experienced electable leaders around, and it's difficult to have them in place when needed. But Zelensky is doing fine, to the surprise of many. There are two kinds of leaders who, elected in peace time, suddenly find themselves leading a country at war. One kind is found wanting and is replaced. The second kind finds surprising strength and LEADS. Zelensky is of the second kind. Could someone else do better? Possibly. Could others do a worse job? Definitely.
Let's not forget that Putin is also out of his depth. This bit of adventurism was planned as a short simple slam-dunk, but that turns out to have been a pipe-dream. There's a quote from Churchill:
Of course any leader elected in peace is out of his depth in wartime. There aren't that many war-experienced electable leaders around, and it's difficult to have them in place when needed. But Zelensky is doing fine, to the surprise of many. There are two kinds of leaders who, elected in peace time, suddenly find themselves leading a country at war. One kind is found wanting and is replaced. The second kind finds surprising strength and LEADS. Zelensky is of the second kind. Could someone else do better? Possibly. Could others do a worse job? Definitely.
Let's not forget that Putin is also out of his depth. This bit of adventurism was planned as a short simple slam-dunk, but that turns out to have been a pipe-dream. There's a quote from Churchill:
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.