The relationship between Russia and Ukraine has risen from a dispute at the political level to a fierce military conflict, and the main people involved in it, in addition to Putin and Biden, have to mention one person, that is, Ukrainian President Zelenskiy.
After contacting the leaders of the United States and dozens of European countries, on February 25, Zelenskiy took off his suit and casual clothes and said sadly that the West had completely abandoned Ukraine.
Is this true? The emotional part is somewhat showy, but it is true that the United States and its allies will not send troops into Ukraine to help Ukraine fight Russia.
As a president who likes to speak in the self-media, Zelenskiy has allegedly removed the world leaders from twitter, and he currently tweets people to "〇".
For the current Ukrainian president who is keen to tweet and fight with former US President Trump, Zelenskiy may still not understand how this battle is fought!
The current situation in Ukraine is like zelenskiy's amazing life, and it is confusing how the president became a president.
Zelenskiy, 44, came from a wealthy Jewish family in Ukraine, where his father was a professor and his mother was an engineer. Zelenskiy, who studied law at university, was supposed to be a legal worker, but he entered the show business circle by mistake.
Zelenskiy and his companions spent years in the entertainment industry, forming a group called "95 Quarters" and captaining it. To be sure, Zelenskiy was a talented performer, dancing well and touring some countries in Eastern Europe.
Later, they set up a studio of the same name, produced and performed various entertainment programs, and Zelenskiy also had a certain popularity, but the real success of him was also due to the hit "Servant of the People" in 2015.
Stills from Servant of the People
The content of the play is simply a middle school history teacher named Vasily, who once discussed political affairs with his colleagues, was accidentally recorded by students and put on the Internet, then accidentally became popular, and then became the bizarre story of the president of Ukraine.
Zelenskiy understands the likes and dislikes of his audience and the popular resentment of Ukraine's political corruption and oligarchy. So he wrote and acted in this comedy that satirized the above "national pain points".
Unexpectedly, the drama was well received as soon as it was broadcast, the ratings remained high, and Zelenskiy also became the "Chaplin" of Ukraine.
Perhaps it was not addictive to being president in the play, or the great sense of accomplishment brought about by the overnight popularity that made him swell, in 2018, Zelenskiy announced his candidacy for the presidency of Ukraine.
His main competitors at the time were: Poroshenko and Tymoshenko.
One was the president of Ukraine at the time, the other was the "Ukrainian gas princess", and Zelenskiy was "nothing", at least politically, he was an actor with no political roots.
Tymoshenko
But it turned out that Zelenskiy received up to 70% of the vote, easily defeated two rivals, and was successfully elected the sixth president of Ukraine.
Such a high vote rate, under the Western electoral system, only Putin (76.69%) in 2018 can match it.
The reason for this may be more empathetic to American voters: in order to oppose the re-election of the unreliable Trump, they can only vote for Biden.
And Ukraine's three contenders, two are rich + oligarchs, in addition to Zelenskiy, who else can the Ukrainian people vote for?
The Ukrainian people have long abhorred the chronic disease of oligarchy + government corruption.
Of course, in the selection process, Zelenskiy gave full play to his national actor-level acting skills. In 2019, zelenskiy knelt down when the elections reached their final chapter and the last televised public debate on April 19.
At the time, the public debate was held at the Olympic Stadium, a huge venue that gave Zelenskiy the stage and space to display his talent as an actor.
His astonishing kneeling caused an uproar in the Olympic Stadium in the entire Ukrainian capital.
Zelenskiy knelt down because he questioned Poroshenko's weakness and inaction against Russia in the Russian-Ukrainian dispute area.
Poroshenko ridiculed Zelenskiy, saying that if he were in power, he would most likely kneel when he saw Putin. Unexpectedly, Zelenskiy really fell to his knees.
He knelt on the stadium and said he would only kneel to the Ukrainian people, not Putin.
This classic kneeling and answering won the hearts of many Ukrainian people, who voted for Zelenskiy and placed high hopes on him.
But now it seems that the Donbass "fell" and the war burned to Kiev; people hiding in garages, subways, etc., listening to the rumbling of gunfire, such a life is worse than in 2019. The actor-turned-president seems to have let his people down.
After coming to power, Zelenskiy's excessive "dependence" on the United States and the West, his "westward" in a vague manner, and his repeated applications to join the European Union, regardless of Russia's opposition to many applications, have led to today's situation.
Of course, the situation is changing every day, and the United States, Europe, including some countries in the Americas, Asia, and even Taiwan Province of China have also come to "rub the heat" and participate in the sanctions against Russia.
It is inevitable that collective boycotts and sanctions by Western-led countries will have an impact on the Russian economy, but in Putin's words, "whoever wants to interfere with us, he must know that Russia will react immediately and will subject it to consequences that have never been experienced in history."
At present, the delegations of Russia and Ukraine have begun peace talks in Belarus, but at the same time, Zelenskiy has also signed a formal application for membership in the European Union.
Is it possible that Zelenskiy is like former US President Ronald Reagan, who is also an actor, learning the way to get along with Russia (the Soviet Union) - KO, but Ukraine is not the United States, and the possibility of being KOD is greater.
Reagan and Gorbachev
Wonder where the actor-turned-president will take Ukraine?
On 28 February, the BBC reported ukrainian support for Zelenskiy, and according to this latest poll, popular support for Zelenskiy has soared to an all-time high of more than 90%.
Netizens commented on this: "I believe you are a ghost!" "What they (BBC) say, I don't even believe in punctuation!" ”