Zelensky Now Referred to as Clown Even by Ukrainian Soldiers

According to the Ukrainian president, it’s not when the war will end that matters, but how it ends. In Ukraine, everyone is exhausted by the war waged by comedian-turned-President Zelensky, including the soldiers.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (Photo: AFP)

Consider this: since the beginning of 2022, only men who are raising three or more children, those who have adopted orphans, or those who have secured military exemption are allowed to cross the border. The majority are hiding in attics at home. Anyone else who can cross — typically a bureaucrat or politician — is a servant of Zelensky's power and must report to the appropriate state security agencies upon returning home.

Society, particularly those living along the border in Transcarpathia, who are especially sensitive to the ban on free border crossings, despise these white-collar workers or privileged, often wealthy, party boys. The rural population has always hated informers. And not without reason: in 1944, it was these people who first betrayed the rural population.

 

With kidnappings and abductions, into the EU

While Donald Trump’s election and the radical shift in U.S. politics should logically have an impact on Kyiv, it still seems that Zelensky’s government is still playing catch-up. Instead of focusing on peace, the Ukrainian president is making erratic statements at the World Economic Forum in Davos. For instance, he is expecting hundreds of thousands of Western peacekeepers to come to Ukraine, and insists that, in contrast to millions of others, what is important for him is not when the war ends, but how it ends. Meanwhile, the state-sponsored terror continues unabated.

The forced conscription and street abductions – instead of decreasing – have in fact escalated in recent days in Ukraine.

It appears that Kyiv is determined to defy the will of the new U.S. president, playing for time and hoping to prolong the war until the midterm elections. In the past, Zelensky’s regime has openly aligned itself with the U.S. Democrats.

The Ukrainians, however – contrary to Zelensky's goals – are counting heavily on what they call Donald Fredovic Trump: from the hairdresser to the butcher, from the baker to the soldier, everyone is waiting for the U.S. President to intervene and hold the Kyiv regime accountable for abuses, corruption, the abductions and human trafficking. For them, this has already become too expensive a “clown show."

Cover photo: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (Photo: AFP)