Zelensky requires more blood for the blood god! More meat for the shredder! And Ukranians are just gonna continue to go along with this because nationalism I guess. Gotta preserve muh precious territory, even if it means destroying everything and everyone I claim to love!
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/v6b4e0/president_volodymyr_zelenskyy_said_that_western/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
This is true but recently its also come into question which faction of oligarchs hes (now) beholden to. Ihor Kolomoisky has been considered a patron for a while but since the war began persecution of rival oligarchs and confiscation of property has intensified, not merely known pro-Russian sympathizers but also anyone with even tenuous ties to Yanukovych, Medvedchuk, even Poroschenko. This guy ran on a populist anti-corruption platform, his election was basically a middle finger to the planners of the Maidan coup, yet he's pretty much become beholden to the same old persecutorial factional politics as has always been the case.
I heard about Kolomoisky and Zelenskyy a little while ago.. Where can I go (and where should I send people) to learn more about this "patronage"?
I've mostly just heard it mentioned around but Grubstakers has a whole episode dedicated to Kolomoisky that I thought was really informative