It’s a huge escalation, people don’t just assassinate heads of state like that, because the people giving the order would be heads of state who don’t want assassinating heads of state to be normalized.
The entire upper echelon of the existing Ukrainian government is in the pocket of the U.S. grift, making millions of dollars off of their connection to it. Not only that, but in the event that they did say ‘Nah’ the Azov Nazis that control their military would immediatly execute them, as they did to civilian officials who negotiated with incoming Russian forces when they left.
Ukrainian morale is already incredibly low, with desertion rates being at an all time high. Zelensky won’t even hold another election because there is a significant chance that he wouldn’t just lose, but get blown out in a landslide. Zelensky is a television comedian, a fucking joke. His job is to go and beg Europe and the U.S for more money and weapons. If he dies, they’ll send another bum to go do it.
There is an overwhelmingly strong argument to be made that Zelensky is merely a useful figurehead that the Ukrainian Nazi-led military is willing to tolerate so long as he’s useful. There are even videos of one of the commanders talking about how uncomfortable he was that a Jew was being put into the head of state role, but relaxed once he saw how successfully it whitewashed them in the eyes of the world. Zelensky is there to serve a purpose, neither the military command structure nor the poor grunts who are forced to fight in the trenches have any love for the former comedian doing vanity photo shoots and kowtowing to Trump’s mockery on live TV.
And speaking of the low level soldiers and their low morale? On top of ordinary forced conscription (which is always popular /s) Ukraine has been pressganging innocent people off the street who are shoved into white vans and sent to the front lines to fight and die as cannon fodder. Do you think those soldier’s morale is going to drop that much more because the leader presiding over the country when that happened to them also got kidnapped? Most of them would probably chuckle and correctly say he got a taste of his own medicine.
They actually told Zelensky they weren’t going to target him. Early in the SMO he was afraid to leave his bunker. There’s no point targeting him because he’s not a real leader. The US is pulling all the strings. It’s why Russia doesn’t negotiate with Zelensky and negotiates with the US.
putin, just fucking do it, capture zelensky
He has tried to capture/assasinate him for a while lol
I mean why wouldn’t you, would make the war easier to take out the other side’s leadership. Russia would’ve been stupid not to try
It’s a huge escalation, people don’t just assassinate heads of state like that, because the people giving the order would be heads of state who don’t want assassinating heads of state to be normalized.
But I guess it is now.
Ukraine would’ve lost a lot of fighting spirit of Russia had managed to take him out. Especially if they managed to capture him.
Wars aren’t won on ‘fighting spirit’.
Sure does help if the other sides morale crumbles.
The entire upper echelon of the existing Ukrainian government is in the pocket of the U.S. grift, making millions of dollars off of their connection to it. Not only that, but in the event that they did say ‘Nah’ the Azov Nazis that control their military would immediatly execute them, as they did to civilian officials who negotiated with incoming Russian forces when they left.
Ukrainian morale is already incredibly low, with desertion rates being at an all time high. Zelensky won’t even hold another election because there is a significant chance that he wouldn’t just lose, but get blown out in a landslide. Zelensky is a television comedian, a fucking joke. His job is to go and beg Europe and the U.S for more money and weapons. If he dies, they’ll send another bum to go do it.
There is an overwhelmingly strong argument to be made that Zelensky is merely a useful figurehead that the Ukrainian Nazi-led military is willing to tolerate so long as he’s useful. There are even videos of one of the commanders talking about how uncomfortable he was that a Jew was being put into the head of state role, but relaxed once he saw how successfully it whitewashed them in the eyes of the world. Zelensky is there to serve a purpose, neither the military command structure nor the poor grunts who are forced to fight in the trenches have any love for the former comedian doing vanity photo shoots and kowtowing to Trump’s mockery on live TV.
And speaking of the low level soldiers and their low morale? On top of ordinary forced conscription (which is always popular /s) Ukraine has been pressganging innocent people off the street who are shoved into white vans and sent to the front lines to fight and die as cannon fodder. Do you think those soldier’s morale is going to drop that much more because the leader presiding over the country when that happened to them also got kidnapped? Most of them would probably chuckle and correctly say he got a taste of his own medicine.
They actually told Zelensky they weren’t going to target him. Early in the SMO he was afraid to leave his bunker. There’s no point targeting him because he’s not a real leader. The US is pulling all the strings. It’s why Russia doesn’t negotiate with Zelensky and negotiates with the US.
They also told they weren’t going to attack…
That’s nonsense. Zelensky is a moderate in his own country. He’d likely be replaced by a fascist.
The same goes for Putin. If he were killed, he’d be replaced by a nationalist who would probably drop a nuke in Ukraine.
Both are moderates in their own nations, and neither side desires a more unhinged leader across the table.
How would the war have gone worse for Russia after they took out Zelensky, what is the scenario the Russians are afraid of?