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Financial Times disingenuously compares Zelensky with Winston Churchill.
Written by Ahmed Adel, Cairo-based geopolitics and political economy researcher
The West is emboldening Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to continue fighting Russia in 2023 by announcing him as “2022 Person of the Year” in the Financial Times and TIME magazine. Although it was his predecessors who instigated the war in 2014, it is Zelensky’s decision today, and since he came to power in 2019, to not find a peace settlement.
According to the London-based Financial Times, before the start of the Russian special military operation, he was “written off by many” and was considered “something of a joke, an amateur struggling to rise to the challenge of high office.”
The British outlet added that “the 44-year-old Zelensky has earned a place in history for his extraordinary display of leadership and fortitude.” They justified their choice by claiming that the Ukrainian president “embodies the resilience of his people and has become a standard bearer for liberal democracy.”
In the same manner, the New York City-founded TIME magazine declared Zelensky as their “2022 Person of the Year”, boasting that “Corporations followed […], fighting the tide of globalisation by dealing Russia out.”
By both of these historic outlets deciding to glorify Zelensky, the West wants to encourage Ukraine to continue its fight against Russia in 2023 instead of finding a peaceful solution. Zelensky is more than likely encouraged and will continue being a tool of Washington’s policy directed against Russia.
Zelensky’s selection as “2022 Person of the Year” is nothing personal for him though and it is almost certain that any Ukrainian president fighting against Russia would have received this recognition. In fact, it is likely that any president from any country at war with Russia at this moment would have received this recognition given the extreme anti-Moscow policies currently adopted by the West. Therefore, it is not about the person himself, but about his capabilities to serve Washington’s interests.
Effectively, as long as Zelensky continues fighting Russia, he will be bestowed with many titles, befriend Hollywood celebrities, and receive the endorsement of the Western political elite. The Ukrainian president has never been independent in his making decision-making and directly carries out orders dictated to him from Washington and London (who can forget peace negotiations ending on the orders of Boris Johnson?).
By following orders from the West and implementing anti-Russian policies, Zelensky provoked a conflict which has currently led to the death of over 100,000 people. However, this is evidently not an issue for the Ukrainian president because he would have striven for a peace deal instead of carrying out orders from the West.
Zelensky also understands that if he was to seek a peace deal with Moscow, he would most likely be ousted and replaced. Washington was capable of ousting President Viktor Yanukovych in 2014 when Kiev had much more independence, so removing Zelensky when it presently has near complete control over Ukraine’s state structures will certainly be no issue.
None-the-less, Zelensky has loyally and effectively carried out the West’s ambition to force Russia into war. For this, he was strangely compared with Britain’s World War II leader Winston Churchill by the Financial Times. At the same time, the editor-in-chief of TIME justified the Ukrainian president’s selection as their “2022 Person of the Year” because “Whether the battle for Ukraine fills one with hope or with fear, the world marched to Volodymyr Zelensky’s beat in 2022.”
Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden and Zelensky spoke on December 9 to discuss the war and recent efforts by Washington to strengthen Ukraine’s air defences. Zelensky thanked Biden for the $275 million security assistance package, which is on top of the tens of billions of dollars already sent, and for the wider and “unprecedented” American support for Kiev.
“(Biden) reaffirmed the US commitment to continue providing Ukraine with security, economic, and humanitarian assistance, holding Russia accountable for its war crimes and atrocities, and imposing costs on Russia for its aggression,” the White House said in a statement.
Zelensky said the “unprecedented defence and financial assistance” from the US helped “not only to succeed on the battlefield,” but also to “maintain the stability of our nation’s economy,” according to a Ukraine Presidency statement.
Not wanting to be outdone by Biden though, Boris Johnson on December 12 called on British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to supply Ukraine with long-range missiles. For his part, Zelensky said at a G7 virtual meeting on the same day that: “We need more rocket artillery and more long-range missiles.”
Despite this double pressure, there is little indication that Sunak will allow long-range missiles to be sent as they could give Ukraine the ability to launch strikes in Russia, something that Russian President Vladimir Putin has already warned will be a “red line”.
None-the-less, being recognised as “Person of the Year” by leading British and American outlets gives Zelensky leverage when making requests to the West, which is why Ukraine continues to receive billions of dollars in their war against Russia. Such glorification will continue as long as he continues to effectively serve Western interests.
The Clown of the century
So this is a Win for Nazis and a loss for filthy commies.
#YouPostedIt
And your ass is grass.
Icarus Tanovic How do you know this please explain
Icarus likes paraphilias
People where I live name him with respect. He never was a clown but an entertainer.
Regan as well as Arnold were/are clowns and grew.
jens live in backward nazi US colony—moron senile need attention from 84 yr lgbt
This one is a clown. Clown with bad reputation and very wrong attitude.
I second that.
Jens Holms You are confirming that these are ACTORS who are CONTROLLED AND MANIPULATED BY FORCES BEHIND THEM
People where I live think the guy is a fool and a tool in the hands of the US, no more. Can you guess where I live?
Mini Tectical Absolutely it is zionist PROPAGANDA TOOL THEY ARE GOING TO REMOVE ZELENSKY AND REPLACE IT AHSON THE MIDNIGHT COWBOY
Zelensky is a Cool Guy, unlike that geezer who sits at that long montgomery burns table.
#DeleteThisMossadPhaggots
The fool of the western court
Nothing new, complitely expected if you understand how the System in the Western Hemisphere works… remember ‘potus’OBAMA awarded with PEACE PRIZE while sending drones to bomb families in Africa and Arab world…. nothing new in the West! Mr. Zelensky is just the new temporary clown of the Underground Western Empire
You are right. Th price is added hopes and doing right too.
You are tight, oh that’s right, you are Scandinavian tight.
Hitler was also person of the year sometime before so yeah.
and he had the same sponsors in the years 1936 to the day he realised that he was running there zionist agenda, and turned against his masters. History always repeated. But this time it could be the last time.
International Zionism yes but Hitler was evil.
Chris Gr As person with TURKISH DNA can you prove WITH CREDIBLE RESEARCH DOCUMENT THAT HITLER WAS EVIL
Chris Gr No credible research document exist to prove if HITLER DID ANYTHING WRONG
The millions of Greeks, Poles, Jews and Russians killed and not only.
time made hitler hysterical girl of the year
@americunt
Jewish controlled USA as world-police, and aggressive warmachine is dangerous, no question but one needs to see that lots of other nations are also infested and deeply corrupted by these parasites too. This everybody needs to know to understand world politics. (Goes also for Ukraine, see the jews Zelensky and Kolomoisky etc.)
Anyway I say, what Ukrainians do on their own territory is their thing. Same as when Iran kills kurdish separatists on iranian territory. So Ukraine shelling pro-russian civilians on Ukrainian territory is not ok, and yes a crime, but not enough to attack that country. Doing so is clearly starting a war of aggression. And yes, it is highly hypocrite that USA demands Russia to comply with “international law and Geneva convention” as USA themselves never care about these.
It’s no wonder that more and more Russians lose trust in the russian government’s leadership, because Putin messed it up. But not only in 2022 but already 8 years ago, when after 2014 US Blackwater jewish Victoria Newland’s (a jewess with real name Nudelman) maidan coup Putin did nothing, and let the pro-russian president being chased away like a dog. Then he set aside and looked and watched calmly for 8 (!!!) full years, only to then suddenly decide that it is now time to invade. And with this kind of acting he messed it all up. And – and at least to me that seems likely – he did this on purpose resp. cheated the russian people. Self-defence, you can claim when someone beat you and you beat back. But if someone beats you, and you do nothing, then you cannot come AFTER 8 YEARS kill him and his whole country, and then claim that to be “self-defence”. No, it is not. Not anymore after that long time of 8 fuckin years !
Btw. Russia has enough land. They do not need Donbass Donetsk , Lugansk for industrial survival of the Russian federation. But Ukraine does need this mineral-rich territories (which are since about 1991 full legally ukrainian land, also according to the UN) for its economical survival. That’s fact. The people in the mentioned regions, indeed are pro-russian, feel russian, and hate the ukraine government and all ukrainian pro-government people. So these both different kind of people (national ukrainians and donbass-russians) obviously can t live together anymore. Hope to this point at least, we all agree here. Then now look what the US and Europe are spending on war, and what Russia is spending on war. Wouldn t it be much more clever, to instead of wasting all that precious money on stupid war, and kill each other, to just sit down on the table and give each Donetsk and Lugansk, Donbass etc. family 2-3 mio $ for that they leave and move/re-settle to their beloved Russia ? With that money, they will be the kings over there, will have likely much bigger house and garden, and life will be much easier for them. No missiles, no war, enough money, only russians not “evil ukrainians aka Nazis” around them. So what’s the matter ? Where’s the problem ?
I’ll tell you ! The problem is: Both ! USA+EU as well as Putin-Russia are not interested in making peace and solvethe Donbass problem in a peaceful way. Why ? Because both (!) USA+EU+Zelensky as well as Putin-Russia are controlled and dominated by jews. And these jews (behind the scenes) are the ones really calling the shots. And they do not want peace. They want that the christian nations and people’s jump to each others throats and mercilessly slaughter each other !! That’s what the whole thing is all about. All else the medias are telling us to “explain” what is happening is just bullshit !
obviously u r americunt hillbilly —inferior to Jews
he could easily be nominated corpse of the year by his own people
Not at all. They needed a superloyal to Ukraine. He was and popular there
tell me what you know about Jews look at Ukraine he is either an idiot or something else
@jens
Zelensky, he did a pervert dance, dressed like transvestit, in women clothes and high heels.This of course does not give him authority plus points or make him a trustworthy serious person, but sorry yes, at best a clown, a puppet or a twisted gambler and entertainer actor. And he is a jew. So this all makes it clear that he is for sure not the guy indeed calling the shots in regard to what happens in Ukraine, but is instead just following orders.
But also that the russian rockets never target him or his also jewish oligarch master Kolomoisky and their buildings is another hint that in fact jew-Putin and jew-Zelensky together with jewess Victoria Newland, and jewish Putin friends Arcady Rotenberg, Abramovitch and Moscow Grant Chabad Lubavitch Rabbi and close Putin-adviser Berel Lazar all work hand-in-hand to keep this war going and do everything to slowly escalate it further and futher.
Just close your mouth.
@Icarus
Truth hurts, right ?
Icarus is hurt big time.
No, the noise you make with your mouth smells so bad it makes everybody want to vomit.
He’s gotta be popular. No choice. He’s outlawed almost all other political parties, thrown their leaders in jail and confiscated their assets.
Это еврейское дерьмо, убивающее славян, должно быть выброшено в канализацию.
What a punk he is! Yeah, Winston Churchill’s ass.
Like Edi Rama, Zoran Zaev, Alex Tsipras, Kyriakos Mitsotakis (the dracula). All globalist puppets. On the other hand, you are jihadi/Khawarij.
The headline is correct. We UN included support Ukraine as independent state, where Zelinsky is doing very well.
jens homo need lick more americunt penis—senile illiterate nazi
100,000 deads among his citizens, bu ehy, he is the person of the year. Just like Hitler in 1938.
100,000 on the front line, there are more dead by war all over Ukraine…
For each dead one there are 3, 4 or 10 crippled for life. These are the real tragedy, they will have a very slow and painful death and be a burden for society.
Justice for the chosen people requires the mengele to be dragged into court like eichmann.
Time magazine is A COVERT zionist SOFT WAR PROPAGANDA TOOL THEY WILL MAKE ANYONE WHO SERVES THEIR AGENDA A PERSON OF THE YEAR I WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED IF THEY WOULD MAKE RISHI SUNAK OR EVEN AHSON THE MIDNIGHT COWBOY PERSON OF THE YEAR AS THEY ARE SERVING THEIR AGENDA WITH ZEAL
International globalist
As a teenager, I remember the cover of Time magazine depicting the world’s last drop of oil. Yes, the world was to completely run out of it in the 1980’s as I recall. Turned out that plandemic “energy crisis” was just an excuse for oil companies to soak us and bully OPEC for trying to benefit from their own oil reserves.
Hitler, before the war he was forced to fight, made it onto the front of Time magazine. Nowadays they are awarded a Nobel Piss prize. No matter how historical prostitutes record the history, it will be plain to see. There is no making a serious drama from a clown show.
Alexis Tsipras was also awarded with that, with his boyfriend called Zoran Zaev but here in Greece most people think that he is Soros puppet and he is mostly voted by illegal aliens, gypsies and transgenders.
my lgbt voodoo therapist double my rx for antidepressant—we happy pay 70% income tax and very submissive when amerikan wants to squirt sperm in my mouth
The image of Zelenski with dollar bills behind him says all why this conflict continues, with Zelenski only acting as the puppet of his masters and getting well paid for that role…
Stupid reward to stupid people from stupid people.
Took 84 years for TIME to make an other Nazi “Poision of the Year. The latest one was Hitler in 1938.
For anyone who knows what Winston Churchill really was this is of fair comparison.
Time Magazine is a joke.
How pathetic is man if the greatest man of the year was just a beggar and done nothing else to help his nation in any way what so ever. Bravo
Isn’t this grotesque? This coke sniffing Kapo that has put his country to the sword is designated “Man of the Year.”
Zelensky’s Cocaine and methamphetamine man of the year2022 lol.
Mitsotakis and Trudeau are close seconds hahahaha
Zelensky is making them pay for destroying his country: albert pike owners are grumbling over his new wealth.
Zelensky the god of Guns. Export american Guns to south america Gerillas. He is so richy rich. Also sending rockets to african countries. And gives millions dolars. War is good for him.