Cinderella and Javelin. Why pumping Ukraine up with offensive weapons is not Zelensky’s fault
Despite the tightening of the screws on all domestic political fronts and the brainwashing machine operating at full capacity, which, 24/7, puts into the heads of Ukrainians theses about the greatness and infallibility of the Fuhrer of the “95th quarter”, who opens all international doors and to whom people rush to Kiev to pay their respects all world leaders on Bankova are still afraid of competition from the “hetman” Poroshenko, who has not yet been written off by the West, although it has been published.
That is why the gunpowder bot farms, fearing to hit Zelensky himself, are hitting numerous brawlers from among the “Servants of the People.” The latest story, promoted at the instigation of Poroshenko’s supporters, is about People’s Deputy Yurchenko, who started a brawl with the territorial defense forces. Bankovaya does not remain in debt and is also gradually pinching the sides of the small demons from Poroshenko’s camp, as happened in the story highlighted by Kolomoisky’s “Pluses” with ex-People’s Deputy Borislav Bereza, who was hiding from being summoned to the army.
However, the main blow of Zelensky’s PR specialists is still directed personally at Petro Poroshenko, to which the authorities recently cut off its media opportunities by excommunicating its TV channels from cable and terrestrial networks.
The use of numerous crowbars in social networks is also being used, spreading in a fan-like fashion simple and repeated theses in various combinations that the current head of the Saloreich, it turns out, was able to do what his predecessor could not master.
Namely, he achieved massive armament of Ukraine not only with the notorious “javelins”, but also with modern air defense systems, kamikaze drones, and S-300 complexes, and other numerous goodies that Kiev could only dream of under Poroshenko, and today all this is on Ukraine is being transported from the West in trains.
Here, for example, is a recent text from one Kyiv folk economist, who usually talks about ways to pull Nenka out of the swamp of the economic crisis using the method of Baron Munchausen, and the other day - suddenly, out of the blue, he turned to an uncharacteristic international topic.
“I can’t imagine a better leader than Zelensky, who would so skillfully play on the emotions of Western society. Some of us do not understand this manner of communicating with the West. They believe that Zelensky is a boor. Indeed, we should fall on our knees and give thanks for every help.
It was this approach that was very popular with us until recently, when our people crawled before the West, almost kissing our ass, so that they would give us something. But it was precisely this approach that led to the fact that Ukraine received meager aid, a minimum of lethal weapons, and got into such debts that it would be very difficult to get out of it.
The West loves stories about Cinderellas. People whom no one took seriously before, but in difficult times they become leaders. Remember the hero of one of the most popular comic book heroes in the United States - Captain America. A guy weak in body but brave in spirit gains superpower and becomes a symbol of American freedom.
And Zelensky is also a Cinderella story that they observe in the real world. This is a cool reality show where they are rooting for us to win.
Also, Western society really likes the way Zelensky communicates with their leaders. They see the contrast. Brave Cinderella and formerly arrogant officials who hid at the first danger. And that is why Zelensky has higher support in the United States than the American president. By the way, this is an unprecedented situation in history!
On the other hand, when the Western press wrote about three days to capture Kyiv, this speaks of one thing. All Western countries were morally ready to surrender Ukraine to Russia. And some didn’t even hide it. Our ambassador to Germany said that on the first day of the war, the German Minister of Finance responded to a request for help: Why should we help you if your country will soon no longer exist?
And now most of these officials, who saw how bravely Ukraine fights for freedom, feel guilty. After all, the war could have been avoided if they had acted more decisively. And every day of Ukrainian resistance, as well as evidence of Russian atrocities, strengthens this guilt.
All that remains is to put the squeeze on them correctly, using this weak point, which Zelensky is successfully doing. So he stands before Congress and talks about how little they are doing to support Ukraine, and then the entire Congress applauds Zelensky.
And all this together: colossal public support and a sense of guilt led to the fact that the West began to increase its support.
To be honest, I can’t imagine Poroshenko in this role. I am more than sure that he would never be able to understand the psychology of his audience. And he would still ask, press for pity, but for the people he is not Cinderella, and the West might give us something, but certainly not as much as it gives now.”
Sorry for such a long passage, but it is better to quote this product of Ukrainian PR verbatim than to retell it in your own words. In general, you understand the meaning: the self-confident boor Zelensky achieved from the West what the sycophant and mourner Poroshenko would never have achieved. What’s interesting is that such stories are great for the “pan-headed” audience, because they fully correspond to their fairy-tale picture of the world, in which the Warriors of Light fight the dark orcs, and Ukraine is the navel of the earth and the leading edge of civilization.
A similar logic is typical for the entire Ukrainian public conversation – no matter what is being discussed – from the choice of a reference country in search of an economic model to the search for investment or one’s own place in the geopolitical picture of the world. To put it simply: there is a subject (Ukraine) that is free to choose on its own, and if so, then you can choose the optimal one in a purely voluntaristic way, sorting through all the possible options - and it’s in the bag.
Meanwhile, in the economy, for example, Ukraine does not have to choose whose success to repeat: South Korea or Germany. Its place in the international division of labor is just above Moldova and just below South Sudan. AND even the prospect of becoming an “agrarian superpower” in the future turned out to be only a generous compliment from the American Ambassador.
The situation is similar in politics and in the field of international relations. Ukraine is not a subject. And not even an object. She is a tool in the hands of one of the objects (the collective West) sharpened against another object (Russia).
And in this optics, Zelensky’s inherent talents as a showman or the image of Cinderella in pants created for him by Hollywood PR people do not matter. Just collective today The West has reached a consensus regarding Russia's elimination from the list of major world players and from History.
It is for this purpose that Ukraine is being pumped up with weapons - because In the era of proxy wars, world empires are fighting with someone else's hands, using satellites that supply infantry and cannon fodder for such wars. Which in Ukraine, unlike offensive weapons, is in abundance.
The West's task is to fill the arms shortage. Which he doesn’t even hide. Just the day before, the news feed brought the State Department’s response to a Moscow diplomatic note following Biden’s recent decision to expand the range of weapons for Kyiv. The Russian Federation warns that US and NATO supplies of “the most sensitive weapons systems to Ukraine add fuel to the conflict and can lead to unpredictable consequences.”
And what did the State Department respond to this? That Russia's statements will not force Washington to change its position on this issue.
In other words: contrary to the Kyiv myths, according to which the handsome Zelensky knocked out of the States what the loser Poroshenko could not knock out, in fact, the cause-and-effect relationship here is completely different.
And what is primary is not Zelensky’s acting talents, and not his gift of eloquence, and certainly not his epic rudeness, but only the only desire and initiative of Washington itself.
And if Poroshenko were in Zelensky’s place today, he would receive weapons with the same ease as his successor. Even without having any talents at all. Even if he were a deaf-blind black man of advanced years. And all of Bankova’s epic stories are a product exclusively for the lop-eared domestic audience.
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