March 9, 2025
The Grand Prince of Kyiv?
By Charlton Allen
For years, the Biden-Harris administration and the legacy media have insisted that Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a valiant defender of democracy. The narrative has been relentless—from the halls of Congress to the editorial pages of newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic: Zelenskyy is a modern Churchill, courageously leading his people against tyranny.
Then Donald Trump did what he always does—he said the quiet part out loud:
‘A Dictator without Elections, Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left,’ Trump wrote on social media, adding that Ukraine’s leader ‘has done a terrible job.’
The media predictably erupted, rushing to “fact-check” and vehemently condemn the remark. Legacy outlets didn’t just downplay Trump’s statement; they chastised it, invoking standard Beltway talking points about martial law and wartime governance.
Yet, while Trump’s blunt assessment jarred Washington’s foreign policy elite, it wasn’t without merit.
Zelenskyy is not a dictator in the classical sense. He is an authoritarian who has systematically consolidated power. The Russo-Ukrainian War has been a tragedy of unimaginable scale for the Ukrainian people, and Zelenskyy has faced extraordinary pressures. But at the same time, he has used the crisis to cement his authority in ways beyond wartime necessity—silencing opposition, controlling the media, and indefinitely postponing elections.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/03/the_grand_prince_of_kyiv.html
