Had no idea so many Ukrainians distrust Zelenskyy, and further, view corruption as a threat nearly as bad as the war itself. It makes the "no elections during wartime" argument even more indefensible.
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I'm sure they could have elections, but bear in mind, getting votes from soldiers would take a very long time, since they can't even get rotated out of the zone when they're supposed to.
August polls by SOCIS show that a majority of Ukrainians consider corruption a more serious threat to their state than Russia – and that nearly 57 per cent of Ukrainians blame Zelensky for the prevalence of corruption, nearly double the number in a similar poll from April 2025. The same poll also also projects that three different rivals would beat him in a second-round election, each by a landslide margin of around two-to-one.
Damn. Elections when?
How can you call for elections in such a time of great need? The democratic elected PRESIDENT of Ukraine can not allow elections right now.
The working class loses every war.
Not surprising. The new powerful countries are China, Iran, and Russia. The west failed to protect Ukraine. The west cares mainly of funding Israel's genocide of Palestinians.
The #1 protector of Ukraine was remaining a neutral buffer state, as Ukraine had declared it would do as part of the settlement ending the USSR. There is no protecting a Ukraine that declares it wants to join NATO and to host nukes stationed within five minutes of Moscow.
So how credible is spectator?
It's a stablished, economically liberal, conservative newspaper from the UK. I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole, but this is a criterion of embarassment situation, as they have been Ukraine supporters in the war and have been historically a supporter of the US and NATO.
And that's precisely what makes their admissions so valuable since there is zero chance of them having any sort of a pro-Russian bias.
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the experts -- both american and russian -- are saying that there's going to to be another vietnam war moment when liberals are made aware that ukraine is imminently about to lose like there was when saigon fell; but i strongly suspect that your response is going to be MUCH more common -- questioning the validity of the source instead -- if anything at all.
ironically, it is the right move to question it, but i suspect that it won't do much considering that basic facts like the united states congress voting to ban weapons shipments to ukraine for its neo-nazi proclivities are hidden in plain sight.
without seeing videos of helicopters evacuating cia & military assets out of kiev on prime time news like they did with the fall of siagon -- ukraine's loss will likewise be hidden in plain sight.
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