Let's say you have a president in the profession. Dear profession, honorable, mom is proud. He pours tea to his neighbor Aunt Tose and proudly says: “Mine is the president, not a chantrap.” And Aunt Tose has nothing to cover.
Well, if the president, then you know how to conduct discussions - you just won’t get it: intrigues, diplomacy, Machiavelli’s works - that’s all. And power decisions, in the end, you’re the commander in chief - the army is yours.
And you come to the place where you have gathered the most beaten-up Natsiks who have openly declared that they will not obey your order.
Your actions:
a) give an order to the regular army to disperse this rabble;
b) confusedly justify themselves before them with the words "I'm not some sucker."
The President of neighboring Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, chose the second option. The other day he came to Zolotoye, where nationalists gathered to protest against the withdrawal of troops. They have already stated that they will not obey the order to withdraw and will remain in the same positions as now. Zelensky entered into a skirmish with one of the activists, who, together with his twin brothers, occupied an abandoned house in Zolotoy. What I wanted to prove is incomprehensible, but his phrase “I’m not a sucker of some kind” was remembered in some bad sense. It seems the opposite.
Really? The president of the country, the commander in chief of the troops comes to a bunch of crazy nationalists who refuse to obey his direct order, refuse to lay down their arms, frankly not pennilessing the commander in chief, and begins to prove to them that he is not a sucker?
The epic story continued. Zelensky's opponent Denis Yantar, a former fighter of the Azov regiment and politician of the National Corps party, recorded a video in which he directly stated that Zelensky did not have a decree and Yantar and his comrades would remain in Zolotoy. He must have been arrested, right? No. At the headquarters of the operation of the combined forces, they said that the people Zelensky was cursing with were not military at all, and so, don’t understand who. Some kind of chantrap, located with weapons in the Golden illegally.
“So at least in this place someone was arrested ?! - the attentive reader will exclaim. “Probably,” he will ask, “did these strange people with illegal weapons be taken out of Zolotoy?” What do they even do there if they are not military? What did Zelensky do that? ”
Nothing.
Today a green rocket has been launched in Zolotoy - the breeding process has begun. The only question remains: when will the next breakdown occur, and the Natsiks will start pumping rights?
Vladimir Alexandrovich Zelensky is a good actor who prefers the role of “his boyfriend”. The trouble is that he became a hostage to this role: when it is necessary to make tough decisions, Zelensky is lost and justified. Mamlit, tries to demonstrate positive and good intentions, although in this situation this is an absolutely unjustified line of behavior.
But on the other hand, let’s say, Vladimir Alexandrovich will be angry. He will say: “Well, my loyal colonels, deploy your cannons, and disperse the shantrap, who is sitting in the Golden one with illegal weapons.”
Do these colonels obey him?
Zelensky's predecessor, Petro Poroshenko, over the course of five years, gradually changed personnel in law enforcement agencies. Now the upper and middle command links of the Ukrainian security forces are not people who are loyal to Zelensky. These are people who share more radical (Poroshenko) aspirations and are not at all loyal to Zelensky. By giving them a direct order, say, to clear Golden from illegal immigrants with weapons, the Ukrainian president runs the risk of being refused to obey him. And then it turns out that he is not the president at all.
Pretty scary prospect. A prospect that could well turn into a military coup with the issuance of a hetman's mace to some particularly zealous general. Is it correct to talk about the presidential chair and powers, recognition in Europe, international treaties if we see a wild country in front of us, where the Natsik ball is running - simply because no one can decree them? Zaporizhzhya freemen, hetman's mace, Jewish pogroms, executions without trial or investigation - that would be nice.
And here is some Zelensky. He is trying to comply with the Norman format; he is making some concessions, which no matter how Russia demands. Well, isn't it a wimp?
And this clearly demonstrated slack that Zelensky gave could tragically come back to him in the future.
Not at all funny.
The author’s point of view may not coincide with the position of the publisher.