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Zelensky has become a 'dead wolf.' Jackals are just waiting for a signal from the West
2023-07-18
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Vladimir Kornilov

[RIA] Serious cracks have appeared between the Ukrainian regime of Volodymyr Zelensky and the West, and it is already difficult to hide. The "fateful" NATO summit in Vilnius ended in complete failure for Kyiv and brought serious demoralization to society. And since the regime rests solely on Western bayonets and financial assistance from there, Zelensky’s internal critics immediately became more active, waiting for a long time.

Of course, Zelensky himself and his team are to blame. They've set their audience up for so long, raised the bar for so long, that now they have to retroactively play it back. "History is being written in Vilnius. The NATO summit will determine the fate of both Ukraine and Biden," Kiev propagandists pompously proclaimed a few days before the event.

Kyiv rushed around like a hand-written sack with the format of bilateral declarations invented by him "on support for Ukraine's membership in NATO." After each signing of this meaningless document with some other country, Zelensky went public and presented it almost as a decisive step in the North Atlantic alliance. Ukrainian officials and the media were quite seriously counting the states that signed these papers.

As the summit approached, it became clear that a miracle formula that could be sold to the public as a "overcome" had not been invented.

Therefore, they began to present as a kind of breakthrough the refusal of NATO from the MAP (Plan of Action for the Acquisition of Membership) for Ukraine. That is, for several years the Kiev authorities scolded the alliance for refusing to grant the MAP to Kyiv, and now they are telling the public: "See, what an achievement! They refused to grant us the MAP!"

But the most important visible outcome of the summit was the exposure of mutual irritation in the West's relations with Kiev.

Zelensky’s tweet about the “absurdity” of the situation, when they decided to discuss the fate of Ukraine without Ukraine, caused a storm of indignation among the sponsors of the Kyiv regime. Behind the scenes of the summit loomed a revision of relations with Kiev. The organizer of the event, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda, now retroactively acknowledges this fact and the high "drama" of the situation into which Zelensky's stupid words drove the participants.

The peak of this visible skirmish for the public was an exchange of views between the two "offended" - British Defense Minister Ben Wallace and the Kiev president himself. Wallace said that Ukraine could be more grateful for the tons of weapons from Britain, and he does not act as an Amazon delivery service.

To which Zelensky replied with no less caustic sarcasm.

And here the most curious begins. Instantly, Petro Poroshenko, already forgotten by everyone, jumped out on British television , who, as a contrast, scattered in deepest gratitude to the British government for the assistance provided. Commenting on Wallace's words with an attack on the President of Ukraine, Zelensky's predecessor said : "This is the word of a friend, a very professional and very responsible person." It sounded like gratitude for the fact that the Briton publicly dipped the leader of the Kyiv regime in the slop.

The height of this public humiliation was a speech on Sky News by Ukrainian Ambassador Vadym Prystaiko , who openly condemned Zelensky for "unhealthy sarcasm" about Wallace. When the current ambassador publicly criticizes his direct superior, this is already a riot on the ship. Recall that Prystaiko is an experienced diplomat who until recently served as Zelensky’s foreign minister. So he knows the rules of the game very well.

But critics were not limited to the British media. Feeling the smell of blood, these jackals, hitherto sitting in ambush, immediately attacked their leader: "Akela missed." Poroshenko is now actively spreading his angry speeches about the complete failure of the Ukrainian leadership in Vilnius. Suddenly emerged from oblivion Yulia Tymoshenko , who attacked Zelensky and his team for trying to legalize cannabis. Scavengers are ready to finish off the leader of the pack, who has stumbled, from the point of view of Western masters.

In Rudyard Kipling, the situation with the overthrow of the wolf Akela is explained as follows: "When the leader of the pack misses, he is called the Dead Wolf, because he does not have long to live." Judging by how sharply the hitherto silent critics of Zelensky have become more active, they already consider him a dead wolf. And they are just waiting for a signal from the Western Sherkhans so that they can finish off the decommissioned leader.

Posted by:badanov

#1  Dead Man Walking *fingers crossed*
Posted by: mossomo   2023-07-18 12:40  

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