A COMICAL TOUR
The blurred lines
between fact and fiction of Washington's favourite far-right populist
By Sidney Hey
How did a clown become the first president of a country? Well, although this was the subject of a lighthearted film called “Bananas” released in 1971 by the American filmmaker Woody Allen, his screenplay about the delirious adventure of a foolish and unlucky in love who becomes the leader of a revolution in a Caribbean country, it seems that someone in Eastern Europe has plagiarised the plot.
Yes, you guessed it.
That someone is none other than the comic actor Volodymyr Zelensky, now
president of a country like Ukraine, which was already fractured by a coup in
2014 that forced Russia to counter-coup in Crimea and is now plunged into war.
Is there anything funny in all this? Not at all. Tragedy is the main
protagonist and the simple Ukrainian inhabitants (Westerners and those of the
Donbass) are the most affected.
As for the backlash in
Crimea, I mean that when the CIA succeeded in getting hooligans and Nazi cells
-assisted by marksmen on nearby rooftops- to overthrow Yarnukovych, the
next (and probably most important) step was that NATO would land on the
peninsula and force the Russian naval base in Sevastopol to be deactivated. But
Vladimir Putin manoeuvred more quickly than expected (surprisingly) and so
Washington and those in Brussels froze when they saw Russian troops intervene
and disarm Ukrainian regiments. The Americans were left with blood in their
eyes.
For the media and the
paid pens of the collective West, the need to embellish with false epics the
regime that worships Stepan Bandera Banderism, the Ukrainian branch of Nazism
whose symbology adorns all its battalions, has become a titanic task, leading
even to blatant attempts to change history, especially about who crushed the
Nazis in 1945. This is where the figure of Zelensky, an Ashkenazi Jew, became
central to counterbalance this opaque political reality as the media would try
to avoid such inconvenient questions as "Can a Jew lead a pro-Nazi regime?
Through a false
discourse adulterated by a dialectic imposed by Anglo-American propagandists,
the meaning of words is ridiculously changed and thus, a covert operation to
create a coup d'état is called "revolution" by the media and neo-Nazi
battalions like “Azov” and “Aidar”, “patriotic militias”. This is a Slavic
re-enactment of the shenanigans we saw with the jihadists in the Arab world
used to foul the resistance in Iraq, assisting NATO to overthrow Mohammad
al-Gaddafi in Libya and failing miserably in Syria. So it is that the Maidan
Square Coup of February 2014 is called the “Revolution of Dignity” by the US
Establishment media.
But it is not only these
contradictions that doom the aspirations of Washington and its Atlanticist
partners to failure. Indirectly speaking of good Ukrainians who are subordinate
to the regime and bad Ukrainians, the Russian-speakers who, despite having been
part of the national population, were persecuted after the coup instigated by
Kerry, Nuland and Brennan for not wanting to bow down to the imposed regime.
For a year now, in the
course of the Russian Special Military Operation, Ukraine's
comedian-turned-president has been extolled and aggrandised by the media of the
collective West, proving that he is a product, the new product of the
Anglo-Saxon powers that will discard him when his usefulness expires. The
examples are many: Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua, Banzer Suarez in Bolivia,
Pinochet in Chile, Videla in Argentina, Noriega in Panama, Shah Reza Palevi in
Iran, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and so many others are a
reflection of what happens with the temporary and dispensable products of the
US State Department. Why would Zelensky believe that he will not suffer the
same fate?
Apart from his personal
vices, which are quite bizarre (and, let's just say, in line with those of his
sponsors), this comedian who plays a tragic sequel to “Bananas” and, like Woody
Allen's character, is a distracted man whose Washington-driven events put him
where he is today and who, beyond his performances for the cameras, doesn't
know where he stands.
In terms of his
political leadership skills, but especially as a military commander, his role
is more akin to that of the pusillanimous and cowardly Boris Grushenko, also
played by Woody Allen, than to that of a leader committed to reality.
His personality has
been turned into a major asset in Washington and Brussels political
merchandising aimed at convincing the public that we are dealing with a
pro-democracy hero in a country ruled by outright corruption and far-right
militarism. But despite the fact that the actor continues to act and, in his
role as a comedian, to go on tours such as the one to the Vatican, there is no
way he can explain (apart from the money) where all the donated war material is
and when he intends to launch his much-heralded counter-offensive.