President Zelensky's Traveling Road Show

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The man of the hour, (and star of the last year of Ukraine hostilities), made a special guest appearance in the United Kingdom Wednesday, February 8, to promote his brand of Ukraine Nice, the poor underdog nation, victimised by the big, bad Russians. Zelensky entered Downing Street to a gauntlet of adoring fans:

Dressed in Che Guevara khakis, Zelensky now plays the role of heroic revolutionary soldier, fresh from the frontlines, the sweat of war artfully moist on his beleaguered brow.

Zelensky was educated as a lawyer at the Kiev Economic School, after which he and some of his schoolmates created the production company Kvartal 95, which produced films, cartoons, and TV shows. In an ironic twist, he created the TV series Servant of the People, where Zelensky played the role of the Ukrainian president. Several of the cast members started a political party of the same name, and ran Zelensky as the candidate for the 2019 election. There’s no business like the political show business.

A billboard campaign ensued, promoting the show and the party simultaneously — to save money, Zelensky admitted later. “People are voting for the plot of the show,” said Ukrainian political analyst Volodymyr Fesenko. “They want to bring the plot of the show to life.” The Matrix could not get any deeper, and according to a senior Western diplomat in Kiev: “We’re living in a parallel universe,” he said, “People are confusing what’s real and what’s fiction.” That would be an understatement, giving new meaning to the phrase, “all the world’s a stage.”

He crowdsourced his cabinet, asking his 2.8 million Instagram followers to send him their picks for prime minister, foreign minister, defense minister and even security service chief and prosecutor general.

During his trip to Britain, on February 8, Zelensky begged the packed crowd at Westminster Hall for “all its fighter jets and tanks,” because Britain doesn’t need them anyway, so might as well give them to the Ukraine.

Zelensky is invariably photographed by himself, to give the impression that he is one lone man standing against the forces of darkness (Russia). He is rarely filmed with advisors or other members of his cabinets, as if they don’t exist. The western media PR campaign is relentless in branding Zelensky as a tireless wonder worker of democracy. Time Magazine outdid itself, elevating Zelensky to cult status: “Not as a military strategist empowered to move battalions around a map, but as a communicator, a living symbol of the state, whose ability to grab and hold the world’s attention will help determine whether his nation lives or dies.”

And a few hyperbolic sentences later, the persistent theme of an actor immersed in his magnum opus role: “Sometimes he slips into the role and starts to talk like an actor playing the President,” says Arestovych, who was himself a theater actor in Kiev for many years. “I don’t think that helps us.”

The article begins in grandiose tones: “The nights are the hardest, when he lies there on his cot, the whine of the air-raid sirens in his ears and his phone still buzzing beside him.”

Zelensky has arguably spent more time drumming up support than any other sitting world leader during wartime. He began in March with a virtual world tour, addressing Canadian Parliament via zoom screen, guilt-shaming them to create a no-fly zone over Ukraine. Zelensky asked Prime Minister Trudeau, “Justin, can you imagine you and your children hearing all these severe explosions, the bombing of the airport, the bombing of the Ottawa airport? Cruise missiles are falling down and your children are asking you ‘What happened?’”

In London, Zelensky channeled Churchill as he told the U.K. Parliament: “We will not give up, and we will not lose. ... We will fight in the forests, in the fields, on the shores, in the streets.”

And in Brussels, Zelensky upped the ante and threatened to martyr himself, telling EU leaders on a zoom call that, “this might be the last time you see me alive,” during the video conference. He made similar appeals to Australia, Poland, Sweden, Norway, Italy, Germany, Israel and Japan.

Commentators have called Zelensky, “history’s first truly online wartime leader,” and furthermore, he is “bypassing traditional gatekeepers as he uses the internet to reach out to the people … through his tactful use of social media, has rallied the world to the cause of Ukraine, and in the process, lifted the spirits of his countrymen.”

If Zelensky is the front man for a massive global PR campaign, it would appear to be a great success. The media loves him, his Twitter followers wax eloquent that “Zelensky is so good at speaking he could read out a shopping list and make you want to send fighter jets to Ukraine.” Great, if the shopping list includes Leopard tanks, F-16s, Himmars, PAC missiles and bankloads of cash.

The awful backdrop to all the media hype is the devastating death toll, paid in blood by the Ukrainians for this war. A report by Turkish newspaper Hurdesa Haber states Ukraine losses are 8 times more than Russia since the beginning of the 2022 Invasion of Ukraine. The newspaper claims that, according to the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, a staggering 157,000 Ukrainian soldiers, 2,458 foreign fighters, 5,360 mercenaries, and 234 NATO military trainers from the United States and United Kingdom have died in Ukraine since the start of the 2022 invasion on 24 February of last year.

Comparatively, only 18,480 Russian soldiers are believed to have been killed in the same period, according to the report. Ukrainian authorities estimate that over 5.9 million civilians have been displaced as a result of the conflict.

Beyond the loss of life, it was reported that Ukraine has lost the following military equipment:

• 302 aircraft

• 212 helicopters

• 2,750 UAVs

• 6,320 tanks and armored vehicles

• 7,360 artillery systems

• 497 Air defense systems

• 234,000 Ukrainian soldiers are injured

• 17,230 held as prisoners of war

Russia is reported to have lost

• 23 planes, 56 helicopters

• 200 UAVs

• 889 tanks and armored vehicles

• 427 artillery systems

• 12 and Air defense systems

• 44,500 Russians soldiers have been injured

• 323 held as prisoners of war

The saying goes, follow the money: The man who bankrolled Zelensky’s bid for president, and also owner of the TV channel that launched Zelensky’s comedy career, Ihor Kolomoisky was raided at his hunting lodge residence near Dnipro on Feb 3, 2023. Kolomoisky is accused of embezzling £1 billion from two oil companies that he had majority stakeholder status. He was targeted by the SBU, Ukraine’s security services.

Kolomoisky started to bankroll the neo-Nazi Azov regiment and refashioned himself as a fierce defender of the motherland after the 2014 EuroMaidan Revolution when Russia first started trying to seize Ukraine. Proving that there are no friends in politics, the SBU claimed they were acting on Zelensky’s behalf to stem the tide of corruption in the country.

Meanwhile, Zelensky banned 11 of his opposition parties during a speech posted online, in March, 2022. Zelensky said that Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council agreed to suspend the activities of the parties. “Given the full-scale war waged by the Russian Federation and the ties of some political structures with this state, any activity of a number of political parties during the martial law is suspended,” Zelensky said during his address. 

Along with everything in the media over the last three years, we must be extra diligent to take it all with a heaping dash of salt. Volodymyr Zelensky is a hired actor, pushed onto the center stage of global geopolitics to play a role, possibly scripted by the same team he went into politics with, from the set of his hit show Servant of the People. The unreality of events on the world stage is accelerating, and the gap between the real and the unreal is vanishing, as the world tilts over the abyss.

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