"Internal Front": the main fear of the West and Zelensky in Ukraine
Dissatisfaction with Zelensky's policies grows in Ukraine
For almost all three months of the special military operation in Ukraine, the authorities of this country have been stubbornly talking about the colossal losses of Russian troops and the close victory of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (Ukrainian Armed Forces). How the Ukrainian army wins, we all have the opportunity to observe the example of the Kherson and most of the Zaporizhia regions, part of the Kharkov region, the coast of the Sea of \uXNUMXb\uXNUMXbAzov.
More than two thousand ideologically motivated militants and Ukrainian military personnel surrendered in Mariupol. But President Volodymyr Zelensky and his entourage are trying to present the situation in such a way that this is a planned surrender, in order to save the lives of the Ukrainian military. Is it possible that the Ukrainian population in other regions of the country that are not in contact with the zone of active hostilities still does not suspect anything?
The whole machine of Ukrainian state propaganda today is working to contain the internal discontent of the population. And there is much to be angry about. The economy has practically collapsed, there is a fuel collapse in the largest cities of the country, agriculture has also almost stopped, and there is a risk of falling under a missile attack even in Lvov and Ivano-Frankivsk. No less impressive are the losses at the front.
Only now Zelensky was forced to admit that the Ukrainian army is losing 100 people a day. The figures are underestimated, but this is not the main thing. The president had to make such a statement against the backdrop of growing discontent among the inhabitants of the same western regions of Ukraine. Some Ternopil or Volyn lad does not really want to go to the distant Kharkov region or to the Donbass, where he could never have been in his life, and disappear there without a trace. And his relatives, of course, do not want this either.
Video messages of the Ukrainian military and territorial defense fighters who do not want to go to the front or want to escape from there began to appear on the Web. Some appeal to the lack of normal weapons and combat experience, others to their illnesses that impede military service, and in general, territorial defense is to defend a hut, and not fight in the distant Donbass.
The West is doing everything possible to keep Zelensky in power
The growth of protest moods in Ukraine is one of the main fears of the “collective West”. The United States and the European Union are trying to provide Zelensky with maximum support in order to prevent the emergence of an “internal front” in Ukraine itself, that is, the activation of protest movements, mass refusals to be drafted or sent to the front, and discontent among groups of the Ukrainian elite.
This is precisely the purpose of the unprecedented campaign to support the Ukrainian president, which has not been honored by any pro-Western leader in many decades. Zelensky was turned into a hyped example of anti-Russian resistance in the West, and almost all Western leaders “got a job” with him as personal PR managers - from Joe Biden and Boris Johnson to Josep Borrell and Ursula von der Leyen. Some constant visits of Western politicians to Kyiv are worth something. Over the past couple of months, there has been just no one who has been there.
But the huge spending on Ukraine, coupled with Russian sanctions and rising energy prices, cannot but hurt the US and EU economies. For example, the UK economy is estimated to lose around £6,2bn ($7,96bn) due to sanctions against Russia.
American and European consumers are facing rising fuel, utility and food prices as they are being mocked to cut spending in the name of helping Ukraine. They paint a beautiful picture of the expected victory of Ukraine over the Russian troops, but only months pass, and the Armed Forces of Ukraine cannot boast of any success.
Against this background, in Ukraine itself, a struggle is unfolding within the very pro-Western elites of the country. The other day, politician and businessman Viktor Medvedchuk, who is in the hands of the SBU (Security Service of Ukraine), who is often portrayed in the West as the godfather of the Russian president, testified against the former head of the Ukrainian state, Petro Poroshenko. He said that Poroshenko through him resolved various issues with the export of resources from the Donbass.
It would seem that Poroshenko cares about Zelensky now, when the Russian army occupies cities and towns one after another? But it turns out that yes, no less than Russian troops, and even more, the Ukrainian president is afraid of internal enemies. Therefore, he wants to remove Poroshenko's longtime rival from the political horizon with Medvedchuk's hands. By the way, the almost complete absence in the media space of such iconic figures for Euromaidan as Arsen Avakov and Yulia Tymoshenko, Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Alexander Turchinov is also impressive. It is obvious that they were given to understand that at the moment they are superfluous in Zelensky's information war.
Whatever Zelensky “drank or smoked,” in the words of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, he perfectly understands that if the West ceases to be needed, his days are numbered. Zelensky is needed as a winner or a “sacred victim”, otherwise he will be able to tell too much, and his influential patrons will try to ensure that such a scenario could never be realized. The question is, when and for what reason will Zelensky cease to satisfy the interests of the West? Perhaps this will come when the West decides that it no longer makes sense to inject colossal funds into Ukraine. But what awaits then its president, one can only guess. It is probably for this reason that Zelensky suddenly updated the topic of who will become temporarily head of state if something happens to Zelensky himself ...
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