An explanation of Zelensky having to leave the White House earlier than planned
Cornelius Hamelberg
Dr. Oohay
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Cornelius Hamelberg
Dr Oohay,
Specially for you 👍
Duke Ellington: Blues For New Orleans
When it comes to African Presidents, the pious West are fond of preaching about corruption.
True , true ,
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
This filthy deep and as yet
not fully explored aspect
that I referred to in another thread:
Incontrovertibly true: Zelensky is corrupt and full of it .When the Ukrainian people get wind of his corruption , his indefensible corruption, he’ll be out, like a light
For deconstruction: Speaking of the scumbag dictator drowning in a cesspool of corruption ( at the moment doing his best to placate Trump :
Steve Bannon on Zelensky ( calls him “a punk”
From Days of Destruction Days of Revolt :
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15moo7RdNL/
For the general consumption of those who don’t have Facebook :
“Stop Pretending Zelensky is the Victim – The Truth About Ukraine’s “Democracy” To those who blindly believe Zelensky is a victim fighting for democracy, let’s get some facts straight.
Ukraine’s modern crisis didn’t begin in 2022 with Russia’s invasion—it began in 2014, when a democratically elected president, Viktor Yanukovych, was removed in an unconstitutional coup, backed by the U.S. and EU.
The 2014 Coup: The End of Ukraine’s Democracy
• Yanukovych was elected in 2010 in a vote deemed legitimate by international observers.
• His crime? Rejecting an EU trade deal that would have crippled Ukraine’s economy in favor of better terms with Russia.
• Protests erupted in Kyiv, escalated into violent clashes, and over 100 people died.
• Instead of finding a peaceful resolution, the U.S. and EU actively supported the opposition, leading to Yanukovych fleeing to Russia.
• Ukraine’s parliament removed him illegally—without following the constitutional impeachment process.
The U.S. Didn’t Just Support the Coup – It Installed the Government
• Leaked calls between U.S. officials Victoria Nuland and Geoffrey Pyatt revealed that the new government was handpicked by the U.S.
• Arseniy Yatsenyuk was chosen as the new prime minister—without any election, without a public mandate.
• The new regime immediately pushed for NATO membership, banned Russian as a regional language, and alienated Ukraine’s Russian-speaking population.
What Did This Lead To? Civil War & Mass Killings
• Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk refused to recognize the unelected regime, leading to referendums on secession.
• In Odessa (May 2014), pro-Russian protesters were burned alive in the Trade Unions House by Ukrainian nationalists.
• The Ukrainian military and nationalist battalions (including the infamous Azov Battalion) were deployed to violently suppress Russian-speaking populations.
• The Donbas War began, killing thousands and leading to eight years of conflict before Russia’s 2022 invasion.
Ukraine’s NATO Membership Push Was Never Democratic
• Before 2014, Ukraine had laws preventing NATO membership—it was officially neutral.
• Polls showed most Ukrainians opposed joining NATO, especially in the east and Crimea.
• After the U.S.-installed government took over, Ukraine’s neutrality was repealed without a national referendum.
• By 2019, a constitutional amendment locked in NATO membership without public approval.
Zelensky’s Betrayal of His Voters
• Zelensky was elected in 2019 with strong support from the east, where people wanted peace with Russia.
• He campaigned on diplomacy—then immediately reversed course, banning opposition parties, shutting down media, and pushing NATO membership aggressively.
• Instead of bringing peace, he escalated tensions, fueling the path to war.
So, Is Ukraine a “Victim”?
• It was the U.S. that overturned Ukraine’s democracy in 2014.
• It was Ukraine’s unelected government that suppressed Russian speakers and ignited a civil war.
• It was Zelensky who promised peace, then became a NATO pawn and silenced opposition.
Zelensky is not a victim of war—he is a product of a coup. The real victims? The Ukrainian and Russian-speaking civilians who were sacrificed for geopolitical games.
Wake up. “(2) : https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18uXjeneNm/
Peter Goodgame:
For three years, Volodymyr Zelensky has been America’s darling, a khaki clad symbol of defiance, pleading for billions in aid and NATO’s embrace amid Ukraine’s self-inflicted war.
To many well-meaning Americans, he’s a hero battling overwhelming odds. But behind the curated image lies a far uglier truth, a stooge comedian turned president, propped up by a criminal oligarch, surrounded by cronies, and presiding over a regime of corruption, repression, and broken promises.
This is the real Zelensky, an actor playing a role he’s woefully unfit for, which was proven yesterday in the Oval Office.
As Ukraine spirals deeper into chaos and its brutally harvested conscript army collapses in retreat, it's important that decent Americans understand who and what this man really represents.
Let's start with Kvartal 95, The Oligarch’s Launchpad, Zelensky’s story starts not in politics but comedy. Born in 1978 in Kryvyi Rih, he co-founded Studio Kvartal 95 in the 1990s with a group of friends that had hit it big by the 2000s, ironically their big breaks were made in Russia, performing in Russian and focusing on Russian and Ukrainian political and cultural life. The key to all this success? Ihor Kolomoisky, a billionaire Ukrainian oligarch with a laundry list of crimes, including fraud, money laundering, and brutal violence. Kolomoisky then owned 1+1, the TV network that handed Zelensky’s Kvartal 95 a national platform starting in 2012. He didn’t just offer airtime. He bankrolled Zelensky with cash, security, and legal and criminal muscle. This wasn’t mentorship. It was a transaction. Kolomoisky, later sanctioned by the U.S. for “significant corruption,” saw Zelensky as a pawn in his game. By 2019, when Zelensky ran for president, Kolomoisky’s DNA was all over the campaign providing vehicles, lawyers, bodyguards, and a media blitz. Zelensky was never an outsider; he was a "made man"
This is where it gets almost unbelievably bizarre. In 2015, Zelensky starred in "Servant of the People," a hit satire aired on Kolomoisky’s 1+1 channel, where he played a teacher turned president railing against corruption.
Ukrainians, tired of the endemic corruption in the post Soviet state, lapped it up. Then, in 2018, his Kvartal 95 crew decided to turn fiction into reality, registering a political party called, you guessed it, "Servant of the People." It had absolutely no manifesto, no policies, and no plan of action, just a TV title and Zelensky’s face.
Running in 2019, Zelensky promised to end corruption and the Donbas civil war, which had erupted after the CIA backed Maidan Coup, winning in a landslide thanks to Kolomoisky’s media machine. An actor who played a president on TV was now remarkably in the real job.
Zelensky didn’t waste any time handing power to his showbiz pals. Ivan Bakanov, a Kvartal 95 co-founder, became head of the SBU security service with no experience. Serhiy Shefir, another comedy crony, took a top aide role, no experience. And then there’s Andriy Yermak, a film producer turned Zelensky’s right-hand man, now head of the Presidential Office, dubbed Ukraine’s “shadow president.” Yermak, physically and intellectually towering over Zelensky, controls policy and access, a fixer running the show while the president flounders. These weren’t appointments based on merit. They were loyalty hires, a Kvartal 95 clique utterly unfit for a grossly dysfunctional war-torn nation.
Zelensky’s laughable anti-corruption pledge met reality in 2021 with the Pandora Papers. The leak revealed he and his inner circle,including Bakanov, were funnelling cash to Kolomoisky with Zelensky stashing millions offshore.
Zelensky swore to end corruption and the Donbas war. Instead, he’s delivered more of both, a million lie Dead, the free Media crushed, billions stolen, languages and religion banned. This criminal is no hero. No Churchill. And no friend of America. He should be treated accordingly.
Thanks for reading.
Cornelius Hamelberg
Dr. Oohay
Cornelius Hamelberg
People’s planet
Stockholm
6th March ( Ghana's Independence Day, also the day I met my Better Half 6/3/69, also her name’s day
Dr Oohay,
Please indulge me. I'm just trying to be a little relevant, not exactly like the court jester idiot and, and not so funny. According to the CBS poll on Trump's address to Congress, a whopping 76% approve of his speech which was mostly self-congratulatory.
If it continues like this, maybe by the midterm elections which begin on November 3, 2026, Kamala and her Democrats, now in disarray, would have finally disappeared from the radar?
Seriously :Your use ( misuse?) of the word “ condescending” calls for an explanation from you. Hopefully, by condescending, you don’t mean what Thomas Sowell (of course a very Conservative Republican Gentleman ) was saying, that “ It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance”
( BTW, as a Romantic, far removed from hardcore politics and genocidal barbarism, I’m usually more on the side of Shelley, Rimbaud, John Keats and Donovan ( Donovan Leitch )
There are those who would say that condescending etc was a ludicrous indictment of The Democratic Party of the United States of America which the 47th President wants to make Great Again. Condescending ? Think again, about Obamacare, George Floyd, Black Lives Matter, Sleepy Joe Biden, Kamala
You yourself are not by any chance a card-toting member of The Republican Party ?
( BTW, if parties and countries were to be defined by name only, outsiders would tend to get the wrong idea. For example how democratic is Nigeria’s “People’s Democratic Party” when Alhaji Atiku rode roughshod over Obi to clinch the party nomination when it was Obi’s turn to be the flagbearer? Now, if e.g. Peter Obi ( shmile) were to name his party “The Real Democratic Party” or “ The Poor, Downtrodden & Oppressed People's Party” some of the miscreants, motor park touts and layabouts would go about shouting that unlike Obi’s party, as you can mostly tell by their names and their actions, the other parties are not at all democratic. For example, some people entertain that kind of idea about DRC (in their case combining the names of both American parties: The Democratic Republic of the Congo - -not a monarchy - in contrast with Mafia Congo that Pepe Kalle sang about ( Pepe Kalle Chante Le Poet Lutumba Simaro.)
On another home turf, by name alone the SLPP ( Sierra Leone People’s Party) with the all-inclusive, unifying motto “ One People, One Country “ upends Sierra Leone’s APC ( All People's Congress).
Old Shakespeare must have been joking when he asked, “ What’s in a name ?” I’d like to ask Oluwole Opara since his surname rhymes with Shakespeare
Trump seems to me to be more of the old APC, at the moment ruling by decree.
Some diehards would of course disagree with me and assert that Julius Maada Bio is more like Siaka Stevens and less like Obama, Sleepy Joe Biden, and Kamala the wahala…
But , there I stray again; it’s not comparative villainy that’s under purview.
Israel has completely destroyed Gaza !
Israel has completely destroyed Gaza !!
That’s why this perplexing question will soon be gathering momentum: Shouldn’t Israel pay for the reconstruction of Gaza ?
As members of OIC / Organisation of Islamic Cooperation are all set to get incrementally annoyed with Trump and his so called peace partner, the warmonger Netanyahu who like his brother-in-arms Zelensky does not want to seek peace and pursue it , I’d like to bring to the attention of Trump, The Council of Foreign Relations, Trump’s allies, their enemies, these verses of The Holy Quran :
32 For that cause We decreed for the Children of Israel that whosoever killeth a human being for other than manslaughter or corruption in the earth, it shall be as if he had killed all mankind, and whoso saveth the life of one, it shall be as if he had saved the life of all mankind. Our messengers came unto them of old with clear proofs (of Allah's Sovereignty), but afterwards lo! many of them became prodigals on the earth.
33 The only reward of those who make war upon Allah and His messenger and strive after corruption in the land will be that they will be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet on alternate sides cut off, or will be expelled out of the land. Such will be their degradation in the world, and in the Hereafter theirs will be an awful doom;
34 Save those who repent before ye overpower them. For know that Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.
35 O ye who believe! Be mindful of your duty to Allah, and seek the way of approach unto Him, and strive in His way in order that ye may succeed.
36 As for those who disbelieve, lo! if all that is in the earth were theirs, and as much again therewith, to ransom them from the doom on the Day of Resurrection, it would not be accepted from them. Theirs will be a painful doom.
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