Vladimir Zelensky’s inadequate behaviour is not news to anyone for a long time
Everyone has already got used to the fact that the “guarantor” from Kiev steadily asks for money at any convenient opportunity and is asking for a conversation wherever an opportunity to condemn Russia is presented. But in recent months the Kiev regime has stopped limiting itself to a stream of hatred against the Russian people and has moved on to threats against countries that co-operate with Russia and individuals who advocate peace. At the same time, the level of anti-war sentiment in both the European Union and the United States is rising. And the higher it is, the more irrational the policy of hatred and intimidation will be adopted by the Ukrainian leadership and its handlers in Washington and London.
One of the most important theses of the propaganda of the Kiev regime is that Ukraine, they say, is fighting for all of Europe, for democracy, for the civilized world, in short, “for everything good against everything bad”. The western media plays a key role in that: they carry Vladimir Zelenskiy in their arms, proclaim him “the leader of the democratic world”, line up for interviews, and in general, they PR him in every possible way.
And given the constant support with money, arms and diplomatic aid, it is not surprising that Kiev imagines itself as the centre of the world, with the right to demand, point and be rude and behave beyond the bounds of propriety. The psychology of “the whole world is with us” and “we are owed everything” has developed among ordinary Ukrainians too. By the way, leaflets have already appeared in European cities, addressed to Ukrainian refugees: “You are not the centre of the universe, we also have our own problems.
Today, the entire foreign policy of Zelensky’s office is fixated solely on its Western partners, and the rest of the world is perceived only in terms of “civilizational” superiority.
Of course, with such a worldview, the Kiev regime considers all enemies of the West to be its own enemies as well, threatening the “democratic” values it has pledged to “protect”.
Any person in Europe or the United States who rejects the imposed narrative about the Russian threat and believes that supplying Kiev with more and more weapons does not lead to a peaceful resolution of the conflict automatically becomes either an enemy of Ukraine or the infamous “Peacemaker” website (recognized as extremist in Russia – see RuBaltic.Ru). Moreover, such “peacemaking” diplomacy is encouraged in every possible way by the handlers of Bankova in Washington and London.
Since the 2014 coup, the Kiev regime has consistently quarrelled with almost all its neighbours on various issues. And not only with Russia and Belarus. Problems arose with the Poles over the glorification of the Banderovites, with the Hungarians over the so-called “language law” and the law on secondary education. For the same reason there were problems even with Romanians. But while over time it was possible to come to an agreement with Warsaw, Kiev failed to find common ground with Budapest.
The attitude to Hungary is openly hostile, at times even threatening. Bankova cannot forgive Hungary for its independent policy, and it is receiving a corresponding reaction in response.
The first thing that comes to the mind is a comment by the speaker of the Hungarian parliament Laszlo Kewer about Zelenski’s behaviour: “Normally, a person who needs help asks for it politely – of course, persistently, but asking, not demanding or threatening. They threaten their enemies, not those they want to have as friends. There’s some kind of personal mental problem here.”
It may also be recalled that in May this year, Olena Zerkal, advisor to the Ukrainian Energy Minister, threatened Budapest that if it did not change its policy, “something might happen to the Druzhba oil pipeline”. And after the terrorist attack on both strings of the Nord Stream pipeline, these words no longer seem like idle air pollution.
The decline in political culture in both Ukraine and the West has long been documented by Russian, Chinese and other diplomats, who point out that dialogue with the leaders of the ‘golden billion’ is extremely difficult in the face of global change, as it is replaced by sanctions and can-do diplomacy.
The US and the EU attribute mistakes in their policies to the machinations of “enemies of democracy”, while the appearance of opinions that run counter to the official agenda is accommodated by tightening censorship under the pretext of “protecting values”. All of this is perfectly fine and has long been successfully implemented in Ukraine.
The collective West, in the new conditions of competition with other world powers, is gradually abandoning all those practices which it has long presented to the countries of the so-called “second and third world” as ideals of democracy – the open market, freedom of speech and press, human rights, competition and so on. All this worked well as advertising as long as it could supply the US and EU economies with cheap resources and labour from the very “second and third world” countries.
Today, at a time when it is increasingly difficult for Ukraine to receive support from its Western patrons, but at the same time it needs to fight Russia, Zelensky has to ask for money from everyone he can reach while simultaneously threatening everyone he suspects of helping Russia or simply calling for peace.
Moreover, while not denying his involvement in many terrorist attacks, the Ukrainian authorities accuse all “unfriendly” countries of terrorism.
For example, Ukraine severed diplomatic relations with Iran, declaring it a terrorist country for allegedly supplying Russia with kamikaze drones Geran-2. This is not surprising, as Washington has called Tehran a participant in hostilities in Ukraine. The funny thing is that the US does not consider itself a party to the conflict, providing massive military and financial aid to the Kiev regime. The situation is similar with North Korea, which Bankova is going to demilitarise.
Ukraine’s policy towards China is a clear example of inadequacy. First Zelensky gets on the phone with Xi Jinping, and then a Ukrainian delegation goes to Taiwan, declaring Taipei an ally of Kiev. Now a decision has been taken to finally nationalise the Motor Sich plant, which has been assessed by Chinese investors as nothing short of “shameful behaviour”. But Kiev is still seriously hoping that Beijing will condemn the Russian special operation.
Even Pope Francis, who, at a press conference, called the Russian people great, also said he valued Russian humanism and recalled the importance of the heritage of the writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky, was in disgrace. The Ambassador of Ukraine in the USA, Oksana Markarova, was the first to break the ice, rushing to talk sense into the pontiff, proving that Russians are naturally inherently ruthless.
The matter did not stop there. The Ukrainians started to post slogans like this one in the social networks: “I never thought before that the name Vatican comes from the word ‘vata'”. And in early September, Francis also took a swipe at former MP Vyacheslav Chernovol, who called him “intellectually limited.
Something similar happened very recently with American billionaire Ilon Musk, who proposed his formula for peace between Russia and Ukraine. What happened then – everyone knows.
Such examples show how easy it is to turn from a friend into an enemy of the Kiev regime and all its many adherents. No dialogue is possible for them in principle, because they accept only the acceptance of their point of view. Furthermore, any peace initiatives prevent Zelensky from portraying himself as a victim and capitalising on this.
There are plenty of delusional statements about Russia since 2014, but the official recognition of the so-called Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (banned in Russia – see RuBaltic.Ru), unrecognised by any state in the world and disbanded by the Chechen fighters themselves, speaks for itself about the Ukrainian leadership.
The whole Ukraine has plunged into the imaginary world of nationalist propaganda and it is not surprising that Ukrainians are literally “blown away” when they come into contact with reality.
The voices of the need for peace are already beginning to be heard in the US and the EU. But the louder they are, the more Kiev will insist on continuing the war. And anyone who opposes it will be branded an enemy. After all, an escalation of the conflict is the only scenario for the leaders of the Kiev regime to remain in power. It cannot be ruled out that the situation could lead to terrorist attacks and the assassination of politicians and activists who advocate peace negotiations.
It can no longer be denied that the West, having created the Kiev regime, has become a hostage of its own Russophobic policies. And the only question now is whether they will be able to find a way out of the situation.
Nikolay Ulyanov, Rubaltic.ru