Perhaps all political careers must end, inevitably, in failure. But few politicians have had careers as meteoric, as surprising, as consequential or as heroic as that of Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky. In just five years he has gone from TV comedian to victor of the biggest presidential landslide in his country’s history to inspiring wartime
How anybody can look at this regime and continue to insist that it’s a democracy is beyond me. I doubt that this would qualify as a democracy even under neoliberalism’s own backward criteria.
I remember that after I suggested that Ukraine is a military dictatorship, some dullards on meanwhileonthegrad made fun of me for mentioning how there are so many photos of Zelensky in uniform next to other military officials, even though I was very obviously not arguing that that proved my point, but it is pretty typical for anticommunists to ignore everything of importance by focusing on some trivia. (The superabundance of militaristic Zelensky photos is simply bad propaganda. It isn’t a smoking gun for a military dictatorship. I don’t care for them much.)
Ukraine once again exposes that all these slogans, like democracy and human rights, are completely meaningless. It’s all just a narrative to justify western interests.
People believe the US government defines what it means to be a democracy, and that how closely aligned you with the US government is the measure of how democratic you are as a society.
I mean they banned several rival political parties and Zelensky’s term expired months ago.
The two retorts i usually get to those respectively are “opposition parties are russian” and “ukraine’s constitution allows the halting of elections till there is peace”