Ukraine > Some unverified and remarkable background on Zelensky; Serb leader rejects anti-Russian hysteria

 

Anneke de Laaf

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A little background information… (in case you weren’t aware of these facts)

Giovanna Scruby

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Peter Goodgame:

For three years, Volodymyr Zelensky has been America’s darling, a khaki clad symbol of defiance, pleading for billions in aid and NATO’s embrace amid Ukraine’s self-inflicted war.

To many well-meaning Americans, he’s a hero battling overwhelming odds. But behind the curated image lies a far uglier truth, a stooge comedian turned president, propped up by a criminal oligarch, surrounded by cronies, and presiding over a regime of corruption, repression, and broken promises.

This is the real Zelensky, an actor playing a role he’s woefully unfit for, which was proven yesterday in the Oval Office.

As Ukraine spirals deeper into chaos and its brutally harvested conscript army collapses in retreat, it's important that decent Americans understand who and what this man really represents.

Let's start with Kvartal 95, The Oligarch’s Launchpad, Zelensky’s story starts not in politics but comedy. Born in 1978 in Kryvyi Rih, he co-founded Studio Kvartal 95 in the 1990s with a group of friends that had hit it big by the 2000s, ironically their big breaks were made in Russia, performing in Russian and focusing on Russian and Ukrainian political and cultural life. The key to all this success? Ihor Kolomoisky, a billionaire ukrainian oligarch with a laundry list of crimes, including fraud, money laundering, and brutal violence. Kolomoisky then owned 1+1, the TV network that handed Zelenskys Kvartal 95 a national platform starting in 2012. He didn’t just offer airtime. He bankrolled Zelensky with cash, security, and legal and criminal muscle. This wasn’t mentorship. It was a transaction. Kolomoisky, later sanctioned by the U.S. for “significant corruption,” saw Zelensky as a pawn in his game. By 2019, when Zelensky ran for president, Kolomoisky’s DNA was all over the campaign providing vehicles, lawyers, bodyguards, and a media blitz. Zelensky was never an outsider; he was a "made man".

This is where it gets almost unbelievably bizzare. In 2015, Zelensky starred in "Servant of the People," a hit satire aired on Kolomoisky’s 1+1 channel, where he played a teacher turned president railing against corruption.

Ukrainians, tired of the endemic corruption in the post Soviet state, lapped it up. Then, in 2018, his Kvartal 95 crew decided to turn fiction into reality, registering a political party called, you guessed it, "Servant of the People." It had absolutely no manifesto, no policies, and no plan of action, just a TV title and Zelensky’s face.

Running in 2019, Zelensky promised to end corruption and the Donbas civil war, which had erupted after the CIA backed Maidan Coup, winning in a landslide thanks to Kolomoisky’s media machine. An actor who played a president on TV was now remarkably in the real job.

Zelensky didn’t waste any time handing power to his showbiz pals. Ivan Bakanov, a Kvartal 95 co-founder, became head of the SBU security service with no experience. Serhiy Shefir, another comedy crony, took a top aide role, no experience. And then there’s Andriy Yermak, a film producer turned Zelensky’s right-hand man, now head of the Presidential Office, dubbed Ukraine’s “shadow president.” Yermak, physically and intellectualy towering over Zelensky, controls policy and access, a fixer running the show while the president flounders. These weren’t appointments based on merit. They were loyalty hires, a Kvartal 95 clique utterly unfit for a grossly dysfunctional war-torn nation.

Zelensky’s laughable anti-corruption pledge met reality in 2021 with the Pandora Papers. The leak revealed he and his inner circle,including Bakanov, were funnelling cash to Kolomoisky with Zelensky stashing millions offshore.

Zelensky swore to end corruption and the Donbas war. Instead, he’s delivered more of both, a million lie Dead, the free Media crushed, billions stolen, languages and religion banned. This criminal is no hero. No Churchill. And no friend of America. He should be treated accordingly.

Thanks for reading.

‘Unnatural for Ukraine to be anti-Russian’ – Bosnian Serb leader

Milorad Dodik underlined the ties between the peoples of the two countries and stressed that Moscow has every right to defend its interests

Ukraine’s hostility towards Russia is “unnatural,” the president of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, has said. He argued that Kiev’s stance has made it a destructive geopolitical force.

In an interview with RT on Thursday, Dodik, who heads the predominantly-Serb region within Bosnia and Herzegovina, expressed strong support for Russia and its military operation against Ukraine, asserting that Moscow has every reason to protect its interests.

He said that as early as in 2007, Russian President Vladimir Putin had “acted very fairly” by voicing his opposition to potential Ukrainian membership in NATO while highlighting his desire for peace.

According to Dodik, after the Western-backed coup in Kiev and the start of hostilities in Donbass in 2014, Western nations attempted to deceive Russia through the Minsk agreements, which were meant to de-escalate tensions by granting Donetsk and Lugansk regions special status within the Ukrainian state.

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“Russia was not as strong as it is today to be able to step forward and protect some interests,” he argued, adding that Moscow genuinely wanted to settle the conflict – a desire that Dodik said was exploited by German and French leaders.

Dodik further pointed to close cultural ties between Russia and Ukraine, drawing the example of the city of Odessa. “Many Russians live there, and they have the right to be in their homeland. Just as Americans have the right to protect every American wherever they are in the world, Russia has a legitimate right to protect its people, especially those who live near Russia.”

“Ukraine is not a country that deserves to survive in a geopolitical sense. It turned out to be a serious destructive factor. Moreover, it is anti-Russian. It is unnatural for Ukraine to be anti-Russian,” Dodik stressed.

Putin has insisted that Ukraine in its current form is “an artificial state” which was essentially created by the Soviet Union using territories taken from several other nations.

At the same time, he has also stated that “Russia is interested in ensuring that Ukraine eventually becomes a friendly neighboring state” and that it “should not be used as a hostile platform for attacking Russia,” referring to Moscow’s goal of keeping Kiev out of NATO.