Nadene Goldfoot
I was just crushed seeing my favorite Wion News Commentator,
Palki Sharma Upadhyay, editor and anchor at WION. She hosts India's only international news and views prime time show called "Gravitas." on TV of India, give the most shallow condemnation on Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, comparing him to
Nero as he watched Rome burn. She asked what had he ever done for Ukraine other than pose on TV? She accused Zelensky of romanticizing Ukraine by posing with his wife.
Oh my gosh! How crass! How shallow can anyone get? I had admired her comments so much before and the way she questioned and came to conclusions, but this shows that what you see is not the whole picture and shouldn't draw conclusions. It's like judging a book by its cover. There's more inside the book and there's more that Zelensky does besides sitting for the camera once in a while.
Now I'm going to draw a conclusion. A lot of the people in the world draw conclusions about world events only from what who minutes they devote to news on TV, and it's all depending on the programming, like the differences between Fox and CNN as to how people are shaping their minds. Interestingly, both Fox and CNN on Smart TVs are stations one must pay to view. ABC is free and stating that they are number one. Viewers aren't any different than Palki was this time with Zelensky. I wonder if this isn't India's view as well.
I personally watch ABC. I also use my computer a lot to further my information on subjects I'm interested in. Of course I have many personal books to turn to for further information. So TV acts as my general moment to moment textbook and the computer is my supplementary material along with books.
Zelensky himself and others' "hope was, at the end of the day, to have better relationships with Western neighbors, to have an activization of relations with the E.U. and the U.S. and have some sort of conflict regulation on the way with Russia. "
“If three years ago, [Zelensky] was definitely different, he was absolutely from another world with an image which he imposed on us from his movie. It was not actually a human being playing resilience… he would come and transform the country in a way how he promised in the movie. And what we all experience these two and a half years it’s an absolutely different personality, absolutely different way of behavior and treating of people.”
“As someone who knows our president personally very well told me once, ‘he believes in his luck, in his star, and in himself.’ He doesn’t believe in reasonable alliances, consensus of interest, balance of different groups of influence, that’s why he encircles himself only with loyal people and you're either under him as his servant or your enemy.” Vasyl Filipchuk
Vasyl remembers that Zelensky started his term before Russia attacked Ukraine. Zelensky was a fresh soul, fighting against the previous methods of presidents who were not honest. Zelensky was a lawyer, but his strong suit was that he was a comedian playing the part of the Ukrainian president on TV, and that got him elected for real. he's also listed as a politician, but I haven't found any evidence of that as yet. He was a political novice. This admired 5'7" Jewish comedian had to do a 180 turn-around in his new real role that called for previous experience he didn't have, so he's been doing his best. He's young, only44. He was born on January 25, 1978 in Kryvyy Rih, Ukraine.
Zelensky’s anti-corruption platform won him widespread support, and his significant online following translated into a solid electoral base. He won a landslide victory over incumbent Petro Poroshenko in the second round of the 2019 presidential election. President Zelensky’s leadership during the Russian invasion of Ukraine won him global acclaim.
Personally, it was remarkable that Ukraine, a country who was very hard on Jews during WWII, did a 180 turn around by electing a Jewish man. What has he done? More than any of others coould have done, that's what. He's thrown his whole heart and soul into trying to end the attack and losing Ukraine's freedom. Vasyl attacks Zelensky for not buddying up with certain elements which is exactly what happened previously with other presidents. No, he has an honest approach. He's the SERVANT of the people, and they want to remain free. He's going as far as he can and from what I see on TV, gages that by what the people say to him. Mainly, what is viewed by the world are these huge goals he has tried to bring about:
1. Bring up trying to become a member of NATO for protection.
2. Ask the USA and others for ammunition.
3. Speak with Russian officials.
4. Receive the backing and trust of nations in the world and admiration of many Americans by his actions.
“Zelensky started out with an incredible amount of credit with the Ukrainian people, as much as he seemed like an unlikely candidate, he was the underdog, he had so much trust from the people, and this trust persevered again in parliamentary elections and I think it took him all this time, it took him two years to run out of that credit, and he did run through, he ran through it by firing his ministry squad again and again, by sending it by for eve of the pandemic totally unprepared, and he made multiple mistakes, he came to the international arena multiple times with empty hands.” Anastacia Galouchka.
Zelensky is in a terrible position. He's a newbie trying to save his country from Putin! Ukrainians have been under Russia's thumb and finally broke away from something they've thought they would give their life to defend, and now may be thinking that they've bitten off more than they can chew. He needs help, not criticism. He needs honest Ukrainians to work with that he wouldn't think of firing. Wasn't that people in the eastern section in cahoots with the Russians? As it stands, Russia plans on taking over Ukraine and the first thing on the list is to kill Zelensky and his family.
Update: Palki herself just told her viewers how much trade is going on between India and Russia. They are buying all kinds of products and goods, especially oil. All the other countries, including the USA, are not because of Russia's attack on Ukraine. No wonder she's knocking Zelensky. It's political, a decision quite possibly from India's president. Quite a coincidence at any rate.
These comments were from "The Kennan Institute. It is the premier U.S. center for advanced research on Russia and Eurasia and the oldest and largest regional program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The Kennan Institute is committed to improving American understanding of Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and the surrounding region though research and exchange. "
8/19/22 Palti did it again. In commenting about Abbas's slip of answering a question about the 1972 Olympics in Munich when 11 Israeli athletes were murdered by Palestinians, he called Israel's defensive moves after being attacked as Holocausts for the Palestinians, Palti commented, on Abba's error in saying this in Germany, and she went on mentioning that no one was saying anything about Israel's excesses ( reaction of killing more Palestinians than they had killed Israelis). Oh Palti ! I could go on and on with this issue, about how Israel pin points targets, but Palestinians put their people out in the open on purpose to get hit, thus getting more points against the Israelis. They put ammunition in schools, mosques, etc, while Israel's people have bomb shelters for protection along with a 45 second warning system often-times, that's all being they are so close to the enemy. Israel defends life, but the Palestinians evidently don't. To Life! L'Chaim!!
Resource:
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/achievements-and-failures-zelenskys-presidency-its-midpoint
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Volodymyr-Zelensky
WION from India, Gravitas News program
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