I don't know how Zelensky keeps going, but he does.

[milestogo]

He has turned out to be a poised and heroic leader.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Zelenskyy was an entertainer with brains, built a company without a rich daddy estate.

Zelenskyy didn't get where he is by cheating and shady manipulation.

[Trueblue Texan]

11. He is a genuine hero. So much courage it gives me chills. nt

[JRS]

21. Amazing person

So talented. I watched all of "Servant of the People," and I so appreciate his abilities. We are all fortunate to have him on this earth.

[BOSSHOG]

2. Dude is a LEADER

He’s doing the planet a favor by damaging Russias military. And earning a planet full of respect because of it. Meanwhile in Washington …

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Supporting Ukraine has been the best bang-for-the-buck geopolitical play ever. . . . nt

[BOSSHOG]

4. You are right My Friend

And TACO wants to fuck them up. Because …..

[Sneederbunk]

8. Russia gets its war with NATO.

[Iamscrewed]

5. Saint

[mucifer]

23. More of a Rabbi

[flashman13]

6. When the smoke clears after Russia is defeated, Ukraine is going to take its place as a great European power.

As a nation it has tremendous agricultural and industrial resources.

[ALBliberal]

7. Unless Trump cons and threatens him into

handing over resources as “payback”

[Trueblue Texan]

12. That won't happen. Zelinsky is no dupe. nt

[quakerboy]

18. Assuming that Russia is defeated

would suddenly have no leverage to extort them with, and precious little goodwill left with them or their allies to convince them with.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. And free w real elections. Putin could not risk a free ex-Soviet country outperforming him on his border

No free elections at the moment with war raging, but Ukrainian people sent Putin's puppet running away to Moscow and elected Zelenskyy freely.

[womanofthehills]

10. How will the country with the most nuclear weapons in the world be defeated?

I expect we are going to see horrible retaliation on the day of the supposed peace talk.

Millions of Ukrainian & Russian young men are dead and tens of thousands are brain dead and amputees.

[Cheezoholic]

20. Yes, it's horrifying. But it could all stop if Russia would withdraw. It is on them. They crossed the line in the sand

Asking Ukraine to give up only to be fully conquered within a year is not acceptable. Ukraine is not threatening Russia's existence. It is defending it's own. It is their young men and their choice to defend themselves. Besides, why does it matter that Russia has the "most" nuclear weapons? That is old 20th century cold war thinking. India and Pakistan could just as much set off a devastating nuclear war as Russia and Ukraine.

[William769]

13. He's like the energizer bunny

Let's keep him energized!

[BaronChocula]

14. It may be one of those things where

no one knows, including yourself what your power is until you are tested.

[markpkessinger]

15. And the cherry on top . . .

. . . is that he has made Trump look like an absolute fool for making his arrogant comment in April, "You have no cards to play!"

[paleotn]

19. Trump is a moronic bullshitter

Sometimes it’s hard to tell what’s bullshit and what’s Donnie just being an idiot.

[paleotn]

16. France said the same about Washington

[NNadir]

17. He comes from an educated family of engineers, some of whom died in the Holocaust, is a trained lawyer with a deep...

...sense of humor, humor being a trait that only comes from Wisdom and is enhanced, not hindered, by a subtle sense of tragedy.

All these things add up to something with which most people now in power in the United States have no experience: Courage.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

22. Well said. . . . nt

[Emrys]

24. All that is true. But also, if you watch his TV series "Servant of the People",

it's very sophisticated satire, with echoes of the UK's "Yes, Minister"/"Yes, Prime Minister", and a radical depiction of the graft and inefficency in the Ukrainian regime at that time. The acting and production values are top-rate, as are the scripts.

It's also chilling to see Ukraine depicted in peacetime, in all its beauty, and how much the plot prefigured Zelensky's election. What it missed, obviously, was the second Russian invasion and Zelensky's transformation from a principled politician bewildered and frustrated by the state's dysfunction into a highly effective diplomat and wartime leader. And yes, that courage of his was in plain view when he refused to go into government in exile.

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