Ukrainians have had enough of Zelensky.
During the three and a half years of the war in Ukraine, the western Globalist politicians and the obedient mainstream media have painted Volodymyr Zelensky as the defender of democracy, a historical, mythological figure comparable to WW2’s Winston Churchill.
Then, of course, came Donald J. Trump, calling him ‘a moderately successful comedian’, ‘the greatest salesman on earth’, and ‘a dictator, with no elections’.
Now, even as Trump promised Kiev air defenses with new Patriot batteries and is threatening Russia’s Vladimir Putin with sanctions, a Spectator article shows Ukraine about to be ‘engulfed in a critical military, political and social crisis that threatens to destroy it from within.’
Spectator reported:
“Putin chose war over peace this spring because his spies and generals told him that Ukraine is on the brink of collapse. Alarmingly, they may be right. Ukraine is running out of fighting men, its frontline soldiers are exhausted and US military support has narrowed to focus on air defense. The Kiev government is racked by corruption scandals and purges, public faith in their future and in their leaders is tanking and pressure to make peace at almost any price is growing.”
Former officials are quoted saying that they believe Zelensky is ‘prolonging the war to hold on to power.’
“Now 47 per cent think that ‘Ukraine will be a depopulated country with a ruined economy’. A separate survey found that 70 per cent of Ukrainians also believe their leaders are using the war to enrich themselves.”
While ministers are investigated for ‘embezzlement and treason’, it took pressure from the US embassy in Kiev to keep Zelensky from firing Major General Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence – because of his growing popularity.
“‘Ukraine has two enemies, two Vladimirs: Zelensky and Putin,’ says a former Ukrainian cabinet minister, once a strong Zelensky supporter. ‘Putin is destroying Ukraine from [the] outside, but Zelensky is destroying it from within by destroying its will to fight and its morale.”
Zelensky’s presidential mandate expired in May last year, but he is still exiling some potential opponents, imprisoning and sanctioning others.
He is also running out of troops.
Almost 7 million citizens have fled the country, and no less than 230k criminal cases have been opened for desertion since the war started.
“More soldiers have deserted the Ukrainian army than there are fighting men in today’s British, French and German armies combined.
[…] No outsiders can reverse the spiral of arrests of former regime loyalists, crackdown on opposition members and shutdown of media outlets that are doing so much to erode Ukrainians’ faith in the war effort and in Zelensky’s leadership.”
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