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Zelensky was the star of a sitcom about a public school teacher who becomes president, and cleans up government corruption.
Ukraine was incredibly corrupt, filled with Russian stooges who were looting the country blind, and the people wanted Zelensky’s character as president. That character was fictional, so Zelensky was the next best thing, and it turns out that he took his job as seriously as his TV character.
There is still a long road ahead, but I believe that they can weed out the last problems. they need to get out of the soviet mentality, and that happens best with cooperation with EU.
I am not saying a celebrity couldn’t do a good job, I just want people to use their minds instead of throwing someone on a pedestal who has expressed no interest OR political capital in the system.
I don’t know Zelenski’s history but Ukraine was a massively complicated and broken situation and Zelenski was basically forced into a prominent and center-stage position by events outside his control, we’ll never know if he could have navigated the political theater without the country going into a wartime lockdown.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy was a standup comedian and I think he’s doing a pretty good job as president.
Zelensky was the star of a sitcom about a public school teacher who becomes president, and cleans up government corruption.
Ukraine was incredibly corrupt, filled with Russian stooges who were looting the country blind, and the people wanted Zelensky’s character as president. That character was fictional, so Zelensky was the next best thing, and it turns out that he took his job as seriously as his TV character.
There is still a long road ahead, but I believe that they can weed out the last problems. they need to get out of the soviet mentality, and that happens best with cooperation with EU.
I am not saying a celebrity couldn’t do a good job, I just want people to use their minds instead of throwing someone on a pedestal who has expressed no interest OR political capital in the system.
I don’t know Zelenski’s history but Ukraine was a massively complicated and broken situation and Zelenski was basically forced into a prominent and center-stage position by events outside his control, we’ll never know if he could have navigated the political theater without the country going into a wartime lockdown.