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Written by Lucas Leiroz, journalist, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, geopolitical consultant
Apparently, tensions between the Zelensky family and the American government are increasing. Recently, the wife of the Ukrainian president, Elena Zelenskaya received an invitation from the US to participate in a ceremony at the White House. However, the first lady refused to participate in the event, claiming to have a “busy schedule”. The case has been considered an insult by Zelenskaya’s part and has led some journalists to speculate on the real reason for the refusal.
Biden’s invitation was related to his State of the Union speech. As well known, this is one of the most traditional and important events in American domestic politics, and it is therefore an “honor” for the Ukrainian first lady to receive such an invitation. However, not even the relevance of the speech was enough for Elena to accept participating in the ceremony.
On March 6, Zelenskaya’s office confirmed jointly with the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington that the first lady would not be able to attend the event due to her supposed “busy schedule”. The refusal caught the attention of experts, as it is not common for a public figure in Elena’s position to snub the American president, especially considering the deep ties between Washington and Kiev.
Obviously, the Ukrainian first lady, like any public figure, has a “busy schedule”, however, an invitation to hear Biden’s speech is not a banality. The most expected, in case of a “conflict of schedules”, would be for Elena to cancel other events in order to meet Biden, instead of simply snubbing the president of Ukraine’s largest military partner. Therefore, many journalists doubt that the reasons behind the refusal are really a simple “schedule issue”.
According to “sources familiar to Kiev” cited by the Washington Post, Elena Zelenskaya would be uncomfortable by having been invited to the event along with Yulia Navalnaya, widow of the Russian ultranationalist dissident Aleksey Navalny, who recently died in a Russian prison. Despite agreeing on their common hatred against the Russian government, Zelensky and Navalny’s followers differ on some ideological points, as the Russian opposition leader had connections with Russian nationalism – which is despised by Kiev.
The American newspaper claims that some Ukrainian authorities were angry by the invitation extended to Yulia, as her husband had allegedly been a supporter of the reintegration (called “annexation” in the West) of Crimea into the Russian Federation. Despite being an opponent of the Putin government, Navalny was a supporter of the retaking of historic Russian territories, since, contrary to what Western propaganda says, he was not a “liberal democrat”, but a kind of “Russian fascist”, openly advocating ethnic supremacism and the segregation of non-ethnic Russian citizens.
Both Navalny and the Kiev Junta represent faces of an extremist, ultranationalist and Nazi-like mentality. However, they disagree as to which ethnicity to consider “superior.” Navalny advocated Russian supremacism, while the Kiev regime advocates Ukrainian supremacism. In its plans to destabilize Russia, the West encouraged both trends, but apparently failed to make both sides become real “allies”.
“While in the West, we have always thought of him as someone who fought bravely and courageously against Putin, in Ukraine, Navalny is seen as in line with a mind-set of Russian nationalism and imperialism (…) Navalny opposed Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, of course, but in 2014, when Russia first invaded Ukraine, he very much was in line with a general Russian view that saw Crimea as part of Russia’s historical lands,” said Alina Polyakova, president of the Washington-based Center for European Policy Analysis.
This case is an example of how the Navalny-led opposition in Russia has never been represented by any “democratic wing”. On the contrary, the current Russian government is representative of a moderate and balanced movement, which does not lean towards any extremism. Some of the main opposition figures, such as Navalny, on the contrary, represented precisely the radical tendencies of Russian politics – which is why they were naturally despised by the multi-ethnic Russian people. In practice, the highly valued “Russian dissidents” are mostly xenophobic nationalists similar to the groups that came to power in Kiev with the 2014 coup – which reveals the West’s practice of financing and promoting ultranationalism against governments considered enemies.
However, it is also necessary to emphasize that not only scheduling conflicts nor disagreements with the Navalny family are sufficient arguments to explain Zelenskaya’s refusal. Above all, the case shows the beginning of a conflict of interests between Americans and Ukrainians. Recently, it has become increasingly clear that the American government wants to replace Zelensky with a more “efficient” leader, which is why the president’s followers obviously tend to be worried and dissatisfied. This is certainly the main reason why Elena Zelenskaya is daring to snub Biden.
wot? bitch does not have time for sugar grandpa?
z’s wife will go over only when z gets more money. where’s the money?
grandpa has to bring pimpelensky some papers if he wants da hoe
he needed to dangle some diamond carats on a stick in front of her.
yeah or he might ask jr. how to handle whores, but for sure he will need some bag$ for her pimp of a hubbie
hunter will slap her and tell her to keep hoin’ otherwise there will be no more coks for the hoe
zelensky wife is a prostitute
to busy with children sex slavery, ukraine scam. another hot potato.
why doesn’t zelenskankniya give a speech in washington on her business associations with the pedophile clinton clan?
clinton’s brother gave up on salting gold mines in haiti and decided ukrainian organ transplant clinics were the next up and coming thing. hunter’s working on a joint venture to set him up.
well it seems the circles that control zelinsky have descided that biden is no longer the man. let’s see if we will soon see the zelinksy family cuddling with trump.
trump hates elensky (as he should). the clown already twice invited trump, and twice trump did not answer (which is a sign of disregard). first i think it was last year when clown wanted to know how his “24hours war over” would look like. and recently clown invited trump to see the front. is trump perfect? no, do we have other option no.
he would only be pictured with z’s wife w/o a frown and fake lecture.
she didn’t want to share the stage with navalny’s wife, because navalny said crimea is russian.
biden’s team is brain dead to have invited them together. children playing war in a grown up world. go home children. you’ve already created enough mayhem. let dad chain you to the radiator and keep you out of mischief.
zelensky and his wife bought a 40 million dollar villa in florida and have stolen tens of millions from foreign financial help to ukraine from westerner taxpayer money. ukraine had 200 billion from america alone and there are 20+ countries donating cash, weapons, intelligence and special forces to ukraine and they still lost. it’s over for ukraine and soon the people who brought the gifts will demand payment.
the people who brought the gifts will never ever, i repeat, never ever get their money back. as for their ‘special forces’ , well they are now operating as fertilizer under the donbass soil. how about that?
sugar joe: -come to the speech beech!. zelenskaya: -gimme mor paper grandpa
she just didn’t want biden sniffing her neck.
cuando los ee uu invadieron afganistán, usaron a la alianza del norte que ya luchaba contra los talibanes, es decir los miembros apandillados de la otan, siempre usan a terceros para sus guerras. hoy le toco a ucrania luchar contra una potencia como rusia. a que costo para el mundo pretenden que pueden vencer a rusia usando a esos decerebrados.