ON UKRAINE AND PHONY HEROS

UKRAINE: TWO PLAY-ACTING PRESIDENTS, ONE OLD ONE YOUNG

Encircled on the north, south and east, Ukraine is hopelessly outgunned and outmanned. The AP reports today (3/12/22) that “fighting is raging on the outskirts of Kyiv, the encircled capital of Ukraine, as Russia’s expanding invasion continues to bombard other Ukrainian resisting cities into rubble.”   CBS reports that the “situation in Ukraine is rapidly deteriorating. Russian forces are closing in on Kyiv. The Russian army is now within 15 miles of the Kyiv city center and near to closing the  encirclement of that besieged city”. 

Apparently Ukraine PM, Mr. Zelensky, the former actor and comedian,  who in his recent past life —of only a few years ago—actually-played the part of the Ukrainian president in a 2018 TV show he himself produced called “Servant of the People”.  Apparently being a good comic actor, one may be deceived into thinking that being a real one is easy.  When Zelensky chose politics over acting he was able to fool the voters of Ukraine in 2019 into believing he was a REAL  former president, not an actor .   But with no previous management, government, or military experience,  the comic actor Zelensky, then a real novice politician  had no alternatives but to simply continue to play the role he knew— his TV role. He simply followed the old scripts of the TV sitcom as “servant of the people” rather than actually troubling to make  the tough decisions of a true leader.  Play-acting a leader and actually coming to terms with the difficult choices for his nation’s  survival and well being are very different affairs. 

While Ukraine crumbles to dust around Mr Zelensky’s ears,  2.5 million have fled, infrastructure is being bombed into rubble, thousands of dead are piling up and no place for burial, and no hope of succor, from the west,  Mr. Zelensky continues to play the “hero” —a fictional character of “Servant of the People” rather than a wise and dutiful leader, who must make hard decisions about how to end the conflict which he and his people have no way of winning.  And a far as diplomatic and mediation skills they were never in the script. 

Sadly, the US and foreign press, safely ensconced  far from the bomb blasts  and collapsing buildings , continue to ignore the hard facts of the Russian invasion and persist in writing (salable but false)  glowing reports of the “hero” president who refuses to comply with Russian demands.  The unworthy press who continue to champion this imposter  as a heroic resistor to Russian aggression only encourage this novice, narcissistic, character-actor to continue to lead his nation into a bloody senseless massacre. 

But there are those abroad who ARE experienced and wise enough to give this novice leader intelligent and sensible council. In France,  Chief of Defense Staff, General Thierry Burkhard, a professional military man has little hope of Ukrainian military survival.  On the 9^th of March, General Burkhard stated that without an operative reserve and with their operations stretched so thin the Ukrainian military will experience a sudden massive collapse”.(As reported in Le Figaro 3-9-22. 

Prime Minister of Israel, Naftali Bennett, who served in the  IDF as a member of the elite Sayeret Matkal commando force is no cringing novice when it comes to military affairs. PM Bennett who has been mediating a possible cease fire between Ukraine and Russia  made a call in the last few days to Mr Zelensky, advising him that Zelensky’s continued requests for military hardware from the west was not advisable, since it would only make mediation efforts and end of the conflict more difficult for those who were involved in this effort.  In regard to Putin’s offer for ending the conflict, Naftali added   “ If I were you, I would think of the lives of my people and take the offer” That was PM Naftali Bennett’s wise and thoughtful advice to Volodymyr Zelensky as reported in the Jerusalem Post 3-9-22. 

Here in Washington, DC, our nation also suffers from weak top leadership, but ours is of the sort found at the other end of the incompetence spectrum.  President Biden has, unlike Zelensky’s two years, well over forty years of political experience.  But with all those years, Biden, like Zelensky,  has little or none in exercising meaningful leadership, military, or management roles. Like being an actor who spouts script prepared by someone else, being  a “back slapping”, bloviating, self-serving politician for forty years prepares no one for actual serious leadership—especially for one who is in his “oatmeal-dribbling” late, “golden years”.  

So President Biden, spends much of this time at his Delaware mansion, from whence he appears on his own “White House stage-set” to read a rolling prompter, the script prepared by other as he acts out, like Zelensky, being presidential.  In these TV political promotionals he brags  and blusters that he “speaks every day” with, similarly challenged, Mr Zelensky, almost 6000 miles away.  It is clear, that nothing good for Ukrainians or their nation will come from communications between these two “actors”…one old and one young…both Incompetent. 

While Zelensky continues to ignore wise advice for his nation’s  survival, Biden ignores the hard facts too as he sends US troops to Eastern Europe,  while promising that they will never fight anyone. He continues to suggest to Mr Zelensky the falsity that resistance to Russia can be successful and unwisely continues to send munitions and weapons which have little chance of other  than extending  the bloody conflict…it seems now to a lost cause.  Why?  

Is Biden (or his carers and handlers) simply sacrificing the lives of the Ukrainian people, and their brave defenders, to extend this tragic conflict for his own base political purposes? Is  this simply a sinister attempt to bolster Biden’s  plummeting poll numbers and perhaps blame all of his own failures at home on Mr Putin in Russia? 

Wise up  Mr Zelensky, stop play-acting the hero. Be a leader, honestly explain the situation to your people,  and stop the bloodshed. Save your people and your nation so perhaps, you and they might fight another day…Take the offer!