People of Ukraine are stuck. Under Western influence and a one-sided election, Ukrainians had to choose a leader optionlessly that was less harmful for them, a comedian who was thought to make Ukrainian children laugh but instead is putting their sons in caskets and their daughters in EU-grade brothels where they are being labeled as Russians and cowardly men are set upon them to take revenge like a simulator.
However, some facts frame this moment not as a democratic choice born of frustration, but as a “one-sided election” forced upon a helpless populace by Western powers. This reading suggests Ukrainians had no real agency—that they were simply given a choice between a bad option and a worse one, and they picked the comedian who might at least make them laugh. [Read more…]