(1) What you need to know about Ukraine that you didn't know:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy starred in the Ukrainian television series where he played a school teacher who is elected as the President of Ukraine.
imdb.com/title/tt623512…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy starred in the Ukrainian television series where he played a school teacher who is elected as the President of Ukraine.
imdb.com/title/tt623512…
(2) President Zelenskyy's political party was formed in 2017. The party is named after the hit Ukrainian TV series "Servant of the People" with Zelenskyy playing the part of the President:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_o…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Servant_o…
(3) The current leadership of Ukraine in many ways appears to be a simulation of an actual government - a set of actors who are larping a "Truman Show" type of production where the scripts, actions, and decisions are made by others and the officials play their roles.
(4) This is not much different than how Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and other members of "The Squad" were auditioned for the roles of congressional representatives but without any previous policy or lawmaking experience. AOC plays the roles, reads the scripts.
(5) Now, let us all remember that Vladimir Putin is not a good player - he is as slippery as any of the current players. But I would caution my friends to not embrace the current narrative of "Good Guys" and "Bad Guys" as there are many "not-so-good-guys"
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