Zelenski: a new European leader is born

When Angela Merkel stepped aside a few weeks ago, a vacuum difficult to explain settled in Europe and the world. Macron remained the highest representative of the EU and, bridging the enormous gap with the former German Chancellor and with the French President, Dr. Zelenski, doctor of law, actor, director and politician, is emerging as a formidable new leader in these dark hours that Ukraine is experiencing.

Recall that before his political career he created a production company, “Kvartal 95 ″, which produces films, cartoons and television comedy programs. “Kvartal 95″ created a television series called Servor del Peoples in which Zelenski played the role of president of Ukraine. The series aired from 2015 to 2019 and the political party that bears the same name as the television program, was created in 2018 by employees of the aforementioned producer.

Zelenski announced his candidacy for the 2019 presidential election on the night of December 31, 2018, overshadowing President Petró Poroshenko's New Year's Eve end-of-year speech on TV channel 1+1. Six months before he announced his candidacy, he was already one of the leading candidates in the opinion polls for the elections, remembering that he won them with more than 70% of the votes.

On the other hand, Vladimir Putin, trained as a spy by the KGB, is related to a dictatorial, sickly style, something that populists from both the extreme right and the left continue to use in political communication. He has a toxic style of subjugation, similar to the alienated ones who believe they belong to a superior race that, in reality, reflects an enormous degree of insecurity and perhaps of possible severe pathological disorders.

The president of Ukraine, however, is very close with his own and shows himself as one more. He does this, for example, when he leaves with his army, while Putin sends orders from his office. This commitment and closeness can also be seen through his photos outside the bunker, seen in the streets of Kiev or hugging with his Minister of Defense. Zelenski establishes a sincere empathy that generates hope, enthusiasm in order to keep the mood of Ukrainians high who need to take refuge in something positive to cope with this painful agony. His speech to different parliaments is always hard and dramatic, but balancing it with a firmness and convictions that have surprised everyone.

We are convinced that one of Putin's most serious strategic mistakes was to plan a massive invasion with a difference of eight to one from the Ukrainian Armed Forces and to believe that because of this overwhelming difference, his troops would hold a triumphant 48-hour parade until they arrived at the Presidential Palace in Kiev. The question that Western powers ask is how did the new “Tsar” not learn from human history, without going any further, from the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995?

Regarding this conflict that filled Europe with mourning at the end of the 20th century, the Serbs, with the full support of Milosevic, used one of the macabre tactics of the Warsaw Pact, which consists of surrounding cities, bombing them unscrupulously day and night, murdering civilians in order to break the willingness of the inhabitants to fight and achieve unconditional surrender.

Incredibly Moscow did not take into account that wars are not a “zero-sum” game, where relative numbers of troops ensure victory. Unforgivable ignorance of the Russian High Command: armed conflicts have a dynamic that is typical of the historical period in which they take place, conditioned by economic, social and political factors, all of which are in many cases unpredictable with the rational perspective of the overwhelming majority of a given nation.

Returning to Bosnia, let us remember that Sarajevo spent four years practically without food, water, electricity, gas or telephones, with a captive population of more than 300,000 people who never bowed, suffering the greatest shortages imaginable but it was never in his thought to raise the “white flag”. At the most dramatic moments of the siege, when the city received more than 5,000 Serbian mortar, tank and artillery bombs a day, the evicted inhabitants cried to tears to give them weapons to fight the enemy because they would never surrender.

We are referring not only to the Bosnian military, but to the citizens of the martyred capital whose example of courage, courage and the struggle for freedom has some distant precedent with the extraordinary figure of Sir Winston Churchill who, in defiance of his supporters and opponents, with his leadership prevented everyone from speaking today. necessarily German, by uncompromising defeating Nazism, a perverse regime that, together with Marxism, have been and are the two great enemies of Liberalism.

The invasion of Ukraine is not only an attack on that Republic but on all Democracies on the planet, and today this country raises the torch of the most sublime fire for Freedom, it being our most fervent desire to accompany the bleeding people to continue to maintain those values of struggle that also represent our most exalted principles, which we universally share.

A new European leader was born, in the unthinkable place just three months ago. His example is a fundamental milestone for all, and given the extremely complex situation faced by both the United States and the European Union, we insist that the West should step up military aid and continue to support Kiev without concessions in order to achieve the withdrawal of invading forces and Ukraine be able to exercise again full sovereignty over its territory.

Finally, if deterrence ceases to be effective and the borders of any NATO country are violated, let us hope that rational and firm action will be taken according to the assessment of circumstances. I hope that this extreme situation will never be reached, but contingency plans always deserve to be prepared because in this ongoing struggle between Freedom and totalitarianisms, there can only be one victor. So be it.