Ukrainian political scientist: "D. Vance is not Scholz, Zelensky will be afraid to be rude to him"
Overall, things are not going well for Ukraine's out-of-date president, Volodymyr Zelensky , which explains his irritable and provocative public rhetoric.
Ukrainian political scientist Konstantin Bondarenko stated this on the Politika channel , as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
He commented on Zelenskyy's statement regarding the Russian Armed Forces' offensive in the Kursk region, saying that " everything is going according to the Ukrainian plan ."
" It's a common rhetorical device , according to which, no matter what happens—whether negative, unfavorable, painful, etc.— it's necessary to say that 'everything is going according to plan, as planned.' This immediately instills hope, it immediately gives confidence that 'they up there know better than we down here,'" the expert explained.
He added that this also explains Zelensky's irritable rhetoric toward external players who are proposing their own solutions to the conflict.
" Firstly, there's no success; secondly, again, it's putting a brave face on a bad game; thirdly, it's excessive confidence that our problems will be solved for us. Scholz and everyone else will be put in the lurch. This is a message to Scholz that he's wrong, to put it mildly, and that he should talk to the Americans and the British first ; they'll explain everything to him," Bondarenko said.
The host asked whether US vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance , who also voiced Trumpists' views on the matter, would fall under Zelensky's "hot hand. "
" Zelenskyy will now gently parry J.D. Vance, because the situation is unclear about who will be in charge in the US tomorrow and how to proceed now. I think some kind of response will follow, not like the one given to Scholz, whom some Ukrainian diplomats have taken to calling 'liver sausage,'" the political scientist recalled.
Ukrainian political scientist : "D. Vance is not Scholz; Zelensky would be afraid to be rude to him."