Posted on 05/20/2024 8:18:09 AM PDT by bimboeruption
And so we’ve come to the point of the war in Ukraine in which the west’s ‘Knight in Shining armor’, the ‘defender of democracy’ Volodymyr Zelensky has outrun his Constitutional Presidential mandate, and is now in power only by virtue of the martial law he enacted.
That is just the most dramatic of the absolutely disheartening (for Kiev) series of developments.
To begin with, a series of videos have surfaced showing how the streets of Ukraine now are deserted, with men hiding from conscription into the army – and somehow, everyone else seemed to have stayed at home, too.
Watch: Deserted streets as the new mobilization law came into force on May 18th.
Poltava after the new mobilization law took affect today.
Nobody … https://t.co/WYre2abbyL pic.twitter.com/ENuWqpY2sP
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) May 18, 2024
More videos of empty Ukraine!
-> 18th of May, the new mobilization law came into force.
Nobody goes out and is hiding. Insane. https://t.co/eA2Hb9NxWF pic.twitter.com/khJLLTShWx
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) May 18, 2024
In the context of the rapidly progressing Russian Federation forces, even deep-state aligned papers like WaPo feel compelled to report on the shitshow.
They are catching up to TGP’s report on the abnormal powers held by Zelensky’s top aide Andrey Yermak. So now, they’ve come as far as writing:
“If actor and comedian Volodymyr Zelensky’s top credential when he was elected in 2019 was that he’d played a president on TV, the top qualification of his all-powerful chief of staff, Andrey Yermak, was being Zelensky’s friend.”
Ouch. WaPo discusses how martial law, has concentrated extraordinary authority in the presidential administration, ‘making Yermak perhaps the most powerful chief of staff in the country’s history — virtually indistinguishable from his boss’.
Washington Post reported:
“Yermak’s closeness to the president — and evident influence over him — has drawn a barrage of accusations: that he has undemocratically consolidated power in the president’s office; overseen an unneeded purge of top officials, including commander in chief Gen. Valery Zaluzhny; restricted access to Zelensky; and sought personal control over nearly every big wartime decision.
Now, however, the legitimacy of the president and his top adviser are about to face even bigger challenges as Zelensky’s five-year term officially expires on May 20. Ukraine’s constitution prohibits elections under martial law. But as Zelensky stays in office, he will be vulnerable to charges that he has used the war to erode democracy — seizing control over media, sidelining critics and rivals, and elevating Yermak, his unelected friend, above career civil servants and diplomats.”
Eminence grise Yermak controls which officials can travel abroad and when; has sidelined the Foreign Ministry; interfered in military decisions – and brokered key deals with the United States.
His brother Denys was caught on video using his family ties to sell positions in Zelensky’s administration.
WaPo woke up to the fact that the Defender of Democracy put all six major Ukrainian television stations to broadcast the same news content 24 hours a day, called ‘the United News Telemarathon’.
And, of course, as we spoke at the beginning, there’s the ‘small detail’: Zelensky’s mandate expires today.
“’The Russians will use this’, one longtime Ukrainian official said of Zelensky’s expiring term. To maintain legitimacy, Zelensky ‘must have trust’, this official said, speaking, as many others did for this article, on the condition of anonymity to preserve political relations and to avoid retribution.” If all that was not bad enough, today, (20) hourly power outage schedules started for Ukrainian industrial and household consumers.
The consequences of the brutal, systematic attacks on the Ukrainian energy system are starting to show.
The second largest gas compressor and storage station in Europe, the Bilche-Volitsa station, was destroyed.
The main control room (management), SERB (operation and equipment), administrative building, and security buildings were struck.
Meanwhile, the news from the battlefields adds to the doom and gloom in Ukraine.
Kharkov offensive is wielding territorial gains not only in the north, but also on the east and south, both in Donetsk and also in Zaporozhie, where Russians took back to one memorable village Ukraine managed to conquer in the failed summer offensive.
Now, in keeping with its strategy of fatiguing the badly outmanned and outmaneuvered Ukrainian troops, Russia is rumored to be about to open a new front even further north on the Sumy region – which means to say that Kiev may find itself under attack.
Watch: Kharkov fortification construction targeted by Russian Lancet drone strike.
⚡️Kharkov fortification construction is going well! pic.twitter.com/mYYZo4hWYU
— SIMPLICIUS Ѱ (@simpatico771) May 19, 2024
Simplicius the Thinker wrote on Substack:
“It could all be maskirovka, of course—but it certainly is thought-provoking. It’s in Russia’s best interest to stretch the front as much as possible and totally break Ukraine’s ability to resist, exhausting their units. The only question is how much of the newly-raised forces does Russian command dare commit to such a long-term operation, and how much heavy armor and gear does Russia have to equip another such large force.”
The Russian term маскировка (maskirovka) literally means masking, and in time it came to have the broader meaning of military deception.
But the Sumy attack may be the real thing:
“The latest tactic is exhausting Ukraine’s best brigades for precisely the reason I’ve outlined for months—they are being whisked willy-nilly to and fro to plug gaps because Russian logistics agility is superior.”
If anything tells you that this is not a Ukrainian war, it's that the Ukrainian people are not willing to sacrifice their children to it.
Nobody wants to die for The Big Guy's 10%.
Hook a generator to that spin machine and you could power Milwaukee.
It seems Ukrainian men are little girls.
They would all rather be taken over by Russia than to fight to preserve their country.
There are FAR too many people across Ukraine that cannot appreciate what is needed to be done, if the country continues to refuse to make a treaty with Russia. Ukraine, YOU WILL BE TAKEN OVER BY RUSSIA.
You should have settled with officially turning over the earlier parts Russia took over, rather than have a comedian lead you down some catastrophic road your country was never able to sustain.
You are all stupid in your behaviors. The country doesn’t even let its citizens have their own guns, as I understand. There’s no “there,” there.
>>>>Hook a generator to that spin machine and you could power Milwaukee.<<<<
Have a problem with facts Chad?
And just like the great Covid deception, a lot of us have seen through this sham war that has, tragically killed somewhere near 600,000 people. Yet another notch in the belt of Marxists.
What the MSM never reports is that there is a strong sense of Russian allegiance for many people in Eastern Ukraine. The whole thing has been a money laundering operation by the globalists.
>>>>Zelensky needs to take a helicopter ride.<<<<
That would be a good thing for Ukraine.
Who will be worse off? The corrupt elite and the politicians will lose their gravy train. Blackrock and all of the corrupt investment firms who have already made contracts to grift in Ukraine after the war will lose their investments. The US military-industrial complex will lose their big contracts.
This is why regular men don't want to fight anymore, and probably haven't for a long time. Maintaining the sham that is Ukranian statehood simply isn't worth their lives. They will live better under Russian governance and likely have a better future for themselves and their families.
In fact, Ukraine just rolled out its selective service app for the new cadre of young men to register since they lowered the draft age to 23. The server was overwhelmed as 150K registered.
Meanwhile the Russians still need blocking troops to shoot their own soldiers if they fail to advance.
If an foreign power, controlling a puppet like Biden or Obama, started a war between New York and Texas, would you want to fight in it? Would you want your kids dragged off the street to fight for one side or the other?
When Ukrainians "voted" in elections, they always overwhelmingly thought they were voting for peace, accomodation with Russia and for clean government. In 2019 even Zelensky ran on ending the Donbas war and implementing the Minsk accords. The tiny Azov factions, supported and trained by the West, wouldn't allow it.
Today Zelenski also loses his legitimacy as an elected President.
That’s the “our democracy”™ Biden, Liz Cheney, Pelosi,et al keep prattling about.
” There are many live cams of Kyiv.”
I can’t find any that are on line!
Protect democracy by cancelling elections!
Andrei Yermak is not a “Presidential Aid”. He is the head of the Presidential Administration which runs the country. Yermak tells the PR Front Office what to have the PR head person, Zelenski, to say and do. All of this was set up during the Soviet occupation, along with the corrupt Parliament practices.
Yermak is responsible for de-mining the southern mine fields which would have prevented the Russian from crossing into UKR from Crimea unopposed in 2022 - likely on his father’s command - his father is a KGB operative. Yermak himself worked for the FSB in his younger years before returning from Russia.
Thanks for the live link to a YouTube video ----
Dated and detailed as: 34,041 views Streamed live on Feb 18, 2022
27 months ago.
Vladimir Zelensky’s legitimacy as president of Ukraine ends in a day, after he previously canceled the elections. Steve Sweeney takes a look at how Zelensky ended up in today’s political situation.
https://rumble.com/v4wb5tr-zelenskys-term-ends-in-a-day-as-elections-canceled.html
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