It’s increasingly apparent that his room to maneuver has been severely circumscribed by the Ukrainian far right

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has, in the context of the tragic conflict now raging in his country, been propelled from the most unlikely leader of a country mired in corruption with a parlous economy into something approximating to Marvel superhero, doughtily defending Ukraine against an implacable Russian bear in the cause of Western values of democracy, human rights, the rule of law and, well, by now we all know the script.

In an interview with Reuters, Dmitry Peskov, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman for decades, made a startling offer. Moscow could end the Ukraine war immediately, said Peskov, if four conditions were met.

President Zelensky, this is about the threat of a Russian invasion that President Biden is warning against.

Perceptions are likely growing in the West that Moscow is dispensing of empty threats and ultimatums on Ukraine

The Zelenskiy regime appears to have mastered no less than the authoritarianizing but still democratic Biden regime and the increasingly authoritarian Putin regime the postmodern art of artificial reality or ‘simulacra’ in politics. The simulacra in politics is compounding and is compounded by the all too concrete realities of war in Donbass and potentially Ukraine and its environs more broadly. The new case of simulacra is perhaps not surprising in that Zelenskiy spent most of his adult life living in dinosaur media unreality, specifically television acting. Zelenskiy’s television virtual reality was comedy; his political simulacra is becming tragedy.

The global probe of offshore accounts around the world strike at the heart of Kiev’s current government and power structure of a ruling class that rose to power on the promise of fighting corruption, including the television-star-turned-President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Since we keep hearing about the importance of linking Western values to foreign policy one wonders hoe the Washington’s and Brussels’ attempts to turn into enemies two Orthodox Christian nations closely linked by centuries-long family, religious, economic, and cultural ties correspond to these and or a larger scale Judeo-Christian values.

Ukraine’s National Security Council is blocking popular (pro-Russian) news outlets. What does this mean for freedom of speech? viaSince early 2021, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has regularly resorted to sanctioning his domestic opponents. By law, both Ukraine’s president and National […]