The media and some well-intentioned folks in the comments have been earnestly assuring me that Ukrainian president Zelensky is a true hero of the people and definitely NOT a nazi, not at all, the guy is jewish, just LOOK at him. Does he look like a nazi to you?
But un-heroically, and actually kind of nazi-like, to be honest, on Sunday president Zelensky outlawed eleven (11) Ukrainian opposition parties, which is exactly what Hitler did once he got hold of his ‘temporary’ emergency powers. Don’t cancel me; I’m just saying.
National Review reported on the story in a Sunday article headlined “Zelensky Suspends Opposition Parties in Ukraine with Russia Ties.” The move included Ukraine’s main minority political party, which often opposes Zelensky’s policies, plus most of the main left-wing groups in the country. Commenters point out that Zelensky didn’t ban either Azov or Svoboda — the two parties regularly accused of literal neo-nazism. In a statement about the order on Sunday, president Zelensky said, “The activities of those politicians aimed at division or collusion will not succeed, but will receive a harsh response.”
A harsh response. Well, okay then. How very nazi-like of you.
Reuters reported that Zelensky also nationalized all the country’s privately-owned TV channels into a single platform under his control, citing the importance of a “unified information policy.”
Thanks, behavioral psychologists, for handing governments the “disinformation” weapon and authorizing them to use it.
Last week, using his emergency war powers, Zelensky shut down three television networks that he claimed were peddling Moscow-funded content. I.e., disinformation. In a tweet Wednesday, Zelensky explained the cancelled networks’ coverage was just “propaganda financed by the aggressor country that undermines Ukraine on its way” to incorporation into the European Union and the NATO alliance.
You can’t allow underminers if you want to do a good war.
But not everyone agrees with the way Zelensky is handling the media. For example, the European Union’s Foreign Policy head minister Josep Borrell said last Wednesday, “Given the scale of disinformation campaigns affecting Ukraine including from abroad, this should not come at the expense of freedom of media.” So.
Does anyone else think it’s odd that Ukrainian TV networks are still fully operational, or is it just me? Wouldn’t that have been one of the first targets for Russian airstrikes? What on Earth is going on? What kind of war are they running anyway?
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