“you’re trying to stop the russians so we don’t have to fight them”

“sitting on trillions of dollars worth of minerals”

jesus fucking christ michael-laugh you can visibly see zelenskyy’s depression

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    Learning about his campaign and his presidency before the invasion, it’s pretty obvious he really wanted to try and improve the country’s situation but he truly believed that the West was the bastion of peace

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      Zelensky initially tried to calm down the situation in the Donbass and get the Nazi paramilitaries under his control and stop them from committing acts of violence against the people of the Donbass. He eventually just gave up because the 2014 coup gave them too much power for the state to control. He ended up being the same politician that he vowed to not be.