Zelensky on coke

[Basman]

9 hours ago, Christoph Werner said:

@Basman @Leo Gura

“Zelensky hate is so forced” is itself the forced narrative.

No one hates Zelensky because he is Ukrainian or because he is “against Russia.” The criticism comes from the fact that, as head of state, he is burning through the demographic and social substance of his own country in a war of attrition that Ukraine cannot win militarily — and in a conflict that from the beginning has been heavily shaped by external interests (USA/NATO, the arms industry, the geopolitical weakening of Russia).

 

The facts that cannot be talked away:

 

- Ukraine already had massive demographic and corruption problems before 2022.

- Since the start of the war: hundreds of thousands dead and wounded (depending on the estimate), massive emigration of the young generation, brain drain, collapse in birth rates, collective traumatization.

- Peace negotiations in early 2022 (Istanbul) were not brought to a conclusion. Western actors clearly signaled that a longer war was in the interest of weakening Russia (“fight to the last Ukrainian”).

- Zelensky himself has maneuvered (or been maneuvered) into a role in which any concessions are treated as betrayal domestically, while Western support is tied to the continuation of the war. That is a classic trap.

- He was an actor and comedian. That in itself doesn’t matter — but it explains why he is so good at the narrative sales job. The Western media machine needs exactly this kind of person: an empathetic, good-looking, English-speaking face for the proxy war.

 

“Decent person for a politician” is the lowest possible bar. Most politicians at this level are not “decent.” They are useful to larger interests. Zelensky has been extremely useful — for the military-industrial complex, for narrative control, and for prolonging a conflict that is permanently destroying Ukraine as a country and as a society.

 

Anyone who has to frame this as “hate” does not want to talk about power structures, incentives, and demographic reality. They want to stay inside the moral story: good president vs. evil aggressor. That is the version for people who do not want to look at who is actually playing at whose expense.

 

The real question is not “Why do people hate Zelensky?”  

The real question is: Why do so many in the West celebrate a man who is sacrificing the future of his own people for foreign strategic goals — and then call that “supporting democracy”?

 

That is not hate. That is a sober assessment.

Utter nonsense. If anyone's tired of the war its Europe. They are very half hearted in their support despite rhetoric. If they wanted to hurt Russia through Ukraine they could do a lot better.

Ukraine cannot accept concentions without security guarantees, which Russia cannot give. Thus war. Zelensky is just doing his job.