(03-01-2025, 04:38 PM)nachobro wrote: one day you'll be okay admitting that even though you like the guy, its extremely lame for him to be dressing like a soldier when he does no actual fighting and wasn't even in his own country. heck, it might even be a symbol of how he imagines himself to be some big boy general which makes it even more goofyOne of the reasons the Russians believed the war would be over soon was Zelensky's abysmal approval rating.
He was at 35% just before the war. His party was tainted by corruption scandals.
He did an admirable job to rally his country but he is not some type of genius war general and it all went really fucking bad when he stopped listening to his military and replaced generals until he found some willing to continue suicidal assaults. You know who was shocked by this? Prigozhin of the Wagner group, he could not believe that Zelensky would send so many to die in pointless assaults in Bakhmut. A decision that baffled Washington too, because they believed Bakhmut had no strategic value.