He’s done well as a wartime leader, but his peacetime leadership was marked by cronyism (the head of the intelligence service was his TV Producer partner, which went well) and a credible corruption investigation halted by the invasion. Without the grand purpose of the war, he’d probably be too scandal-prone to hold a consensus.
It’s hard to see a world leader though as so many electorates have turned inward. Zelenskyy is the one with an outward focus.
I mean, Ukraine was (is?) probably the country with the most corruption in Europe, I’ve been there, it was flabbergasting. It stands to reason that you don’t become the president of such a country without getting dirty yourself.
But everyone can improve, that’s part of the point of this war I think: Ukraine could have just let Russia take over, everything would have probably gone back to “normal” in a few years, but they’re making sacrifices for a better future, one closer to European democracies.
Of course what op is saying is childish nonsense for so many reasons it’s not even worth discussing.
He’s done well as a wartime leader, but his peacetime leadership was marked by cronyism (the head of the intelligence service was his TV Producer partner, which went well) and a credible corruption investigation halted by the invasion. Without the grand purpose of the war, he’d probably be too scandal-prone to hold a consensus.
It’s hard to see a world leader though as so many electorates have turned inward. Zelenskyy is the one with an outward focus.
I mean, Ukraine was (is?) probably the country with the most corruption in Europe, I’ve been there, it was flabbergasting. It stands to reason that you don’t become the president of such a country without getting dirty yourself.
But everyone can improve, that’s part of the point of this war I think: Ukraine could have just let Russia take over, everything would have probably gone back to “normal” in a few years, but they’re making sacrifices for a better future, one closer to European democracies.
Of course what op is saying is childish nonsense for so many reasons it’s not even worth discussing.
Those quotation marks do some heavy lifting there.