It’s a rigorously suppressed fact that Zelenskyy is the second US puppet to occupy the office of President since the US-engineered coup overthrew the democratically-elected government of the Ukraine in 2014, and that the war we’re constantly told began when Russian forces moved into the Donbas region of Eastern Ukraine in February 2022 in actuality started eight years earlier, when the majority Russian-speaking population formed itself into a people’s militia and rose up against the intervention of the USA in their country.

Zelenskyy was elected as President in May 2019 on a promise to end the resulting civil war in the Donbas, and until the Russian intervention he appeared on the media platforms of the West in the role of a diminutive, clean-shaven, suited-and-booted office boy, trying to work out the dramatic arc of his new character. This was no longer as the star of the television show, Servant of the People (Слуга народу), in which he had played the gun-toting President of the Ukraine since 2015, but as the actual President of a country for which the USA had very definite plans. To his obvious confusion, his new status as a ‘Reality TV’ star didn’t preclude him from, for example, being humiliated by Donald Trump on US television as the whipping boy for the poorest and most corrupt nation in Europe that was ripe for salvation from its Russian oppressor.

Then all that changed last year. A few months in the gym, a new designer beard, imitation army fatigues embroidered with a golden trident, a fashion shoot with his model wife for Paris Vogue, and the former naked exponent of cock jokes on Ukrainian music-television famous for wearing high heels and bondage gear and playing a piano with his penis became the new Führer before whom the leaders of Western capitalism have been only too ready to abase themselves. Despite presiding over a neo-Nazi Government whose ethnic cleansing of its own population had been reported by Western media for eight long years, that has banned Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev and pulped 72 tonnes of Russian-language books, including Tolstoy and Dostoievsky, and turned them into toilet paper, Zelenskyy is now fêted in the West as a hero of democracy.

But like Mussolini and Hitler — who were chosen by, respectively, Italian landowners and German industrialists to defeat the threat of the workers’ movement to European capital — Zelenskyy’s elevation from preening dance-show contestant to butch President is serving the financial interests of Western capitalists.

Washington’s Puppet: The Rise and Fall of Volodmyr Zelenskyy – architectsforsocialhousing