Zelensky, today, signed a historic tax increase into law.
It's truly draconian, I can say after reading through this amendment.
He's already at 22% in popularity when polls are run for who people might elect as new president (the former general Zaluzhny is at 40%+).
These negotiations (which he can resist, but can't ultimately avoid), and these unpopular laws are gonna do something not very fun for Ukraine... if the current situation continues for at least a few more months.
The best thing for Ukraine - right now - might be a sudden resignation of the current government, and a calling of new extraordinary elections.
Somebody who is not burdened with Zelensky's gruesome wartime record might be able to sell the population on the necessity of an overall "deal" with Russia. It would also make things easier for Biden in his last month, and also for Trump after.
Now, three years in, Zelensky sticks out like sore thumb. His bombastic rhetoric doesn't land with foreign audiences, his own population long hates him, and Putin doesn't see him as a credible negotiator.
His own former foreign minister, said last night, that Zelensky cannot give away territories because "it would be the end of his political career".
If this guy is so hopelessly wrapped up into his own ego, despite the sentiments of every man sitting in the trenches, it's definitely time for him to go.
P.S. he got elected against Poroshenko on a clear mandate of ending hostilities with Russia. It was him that pointed out clearly all the shenanigans that the Poroshenko government employed in dealing with Minsk1, and Minsk-2. He accurately pointed at the previous government negotiating in bad faith.
Him being so naive as thinking that if we have a Russian Jew in power, that says all the right things, might prevent a war, without giving us any meaningful concessions - was his ultimate mistake.
It's truly draconian, I can say after reading through this amendment.
He's already at 22% in popularity when polls are run for who people might elect as new president (the former general Zaluzhny is at 40%+).
These negotiations (which he can resist, but can't ultimately avoid), and these unpopular laws are gonna do something not very fun for Ukraine... if the current situation continues for at least a few more months.
The best thing for Ukraine - right now - might be a sudden resignation of the current government, and a calling of new extraordinary elections.
Somebody who is not burdened with Zelensky's gruesome wartime record might be able to sell the population on the necessity of an overall "deal" with Russia. It would also make things easier for Biden in his last month, and also for Trump after.
Now, three years in, Zelensky sticks out like sore thumb. His bombastic rhetoric doesn't land with foreign audiences, his own population long hates him, and Putin doesn't see him as a credible negotiator.
His own former foreign minister, said last night, that Zelensky cannot give away territories because "it would be the end of his political career".
If this guy is so hopelessly wrapped up into his own ego, despite the sentiments of every man sitting in the trenches, it's definitely time for him to go.
P.S. he got elected against Poroshenko on a clear mandate of ending hostilities with Russia. It was him that pointed out clearly all the shenanigans that the Poroshenko government employed in dealing with Minsk1, and Minsk-2. He accurately pointed at the previous government negotiating in bad faith.
Him being so naive as thinking that if we have a Russian Jew in power, that says all the right things, might prevent a war, without giving us any meaningful concessions - was his ultimate mistake.
