Zelensky isn't an idiot, he's just a typical lib. Cowardly and entirely powerless to implement any of what he promised because the Ukrainian right stops him. He's a Russian-speaking Jew who ran on de-escalating the situation in Donbass by implementing Minsk II. But the Ukrainian right wouldn't let him do that and instead pressured him to seek NATO membership. So that's what happened.
Zelensky isn't an idiot, he's just a typical lib. Cowardly and entirely powerless to implement any of what he promised because the Ukrainian right stops him. He's a Russian-speaking Jew who ran on de-escalating the situation in Donbass by implementing Minsk II. But the Ukrainian right wouldn't let him do that and instead pressured him to seek NATO membership. So that's what happened.