Steve, LOL, your comparison with churcill is alas, not the most appropriate that you might have chosen. Alas, because I really wish that Zelensky was that visionary, intelligently stubborn, very successful statesman that Churchill was.
Alas again, the facts have proven the contrary. Zelenski is a mere war hero, who should have stopped being a war hero after one month of the invasion, and should have started reasoning about peace.
NO, by hindsight, he has not been like Churchill, he has badly, badly botched it, encouraged by the USA administration and Europe. Everyone thought the war was ending soon, Russia will crack in a few months.
The facts have badly contradicted all of em.
Presently, Zelenski is a man consumed by the demon of hate. A deep, visceral hate against the Russians. I have listened to him in one serious podcast. He is no more apt to his position, he should put himself aside and leave room to someone whose brain has not been irremediably ruined by the demonic quality of hate. I understand him, everyone understands him, but his mental lucidity has gone. He has become a demon of hate himself. No more suited for the mission. Unfortunately. I used to admire him. No more now. He is deliberately taking his nation to the ruin and giving a gift to Putin. He also wanted to drag the whole world in a 3rd world war. The POTUS has alluded to that in a very precise and appropriate way. The POTUS is no fool, his enemies would like to depict him as such, but he clearly isn't. He is eccentric and sometimes crazy, but not a fool. Definitely not.
It is very difficult to fathom listening to you talk about a man consumed in hate and the whole time not even considering or recognizing that hate is the word which identifies murdering your countrymen who disagree. Poisoning your opponents. Giving long term prison sentences to those who’ve disagreed with your invasion of other countries. Left them to die a slow death in the arctic circle freezing to death. Left your citizens in fear of saying anything that somehow may appear offensive to a madman consumed with power. Lived a life of luxury while you’ve sent your soldiers to die and be mutilated to protect your gluttony for power and domination.
No in fact Zelenskyy is not only a man of heroic courage for his country but now that he has invaded Russia he is also a man of great compassion for the Russian people and their misery as well. In fact it is not just Putin who is responsible for the torture and demolition of another country but for his as well. And anyone that rationalizes the support of such demonic action is also responsible for the support of such hatred. Remember that as you lie on your own death bed. Remember all the bravery that Zelensky inspired while you worked against him and supported a tyrant. Not only that but you demeaned his efforts to protect the rest of the free world and your country as well. Because tyrants are never satisfied in their greed for power.
It is in your illusion you have attempted to justify might over right; A quick fix like the peace treaties Chamberlin signed that Hitler never adhered to. In fact at least Churchill had the support of the United States in his overwhelming opposition to domination by a deranged man. But Zelensky is confronted by an another evil force; a man who himself is an authoritarian autocrat who admires and condones the power hungry autocratic peers around the world and has openly done so. That man is Donald Trump, a man who is now an open supporter of a tyrant and cruelty in Russia. A man who himself has not eliminated the possibility of openly conquering other countries by force because he himself loves power for its own sake. A man that supports the idea that the wealthy should subdue the poor and should live high on the hog like Putin and XI while their country men live in debt and poverty and work in sweatshops across their countries. A man willing to shred the constitution who feels his own subjective judgments are more important than men who fought valiantly to end tyranny and kings forever who now aspires to be a king himself. That man is now in power in the U.S. with his cult followers. That man is a danger to democracy and has become - like Mussolini in Italy - an open supporter of tyranny and oppression. Such is the slow transition such men fall prey to when they let the temptation of greed and avarice consume them in their lack of development of compassion and and sympathy for their fellow men and service to Mother Earth.
