I can't help but notice that every political leader who backs Zelensky seems to get booted out of office within 2-3 years tops.
Von Der Leyen appears to be the exception but then there were no other candidates when she "won" that initial election or the recent one.
Pretty much every single other western leader has had to resign, was forced out or the entire government collapsed.
Well Putin is waging information war, massive hackings etc., against us, so that might have an impact.
Or it's just confirmation bias on your part.
Biden's decision has nothing to do with Ukraine and everything to do with him being senile and enough in his party no longer thinking he can win because of that and/or not wanting to hide the fact anymore.
In the UK, the Tories had been in power since 2010 and were not popular even before the start of the 2022 Ukraine war, them losing isn't surprising.
I could continue.
And if you're making the reverse argument that Putin's friends, most of them dictators, are still in power, well...they're dictators.
Important to note that here in the UK, the Labour favourite switch in the polling happened after Russia invaded Ukraine.
In 2019 the conservatives won with a massive 43% of the vote share, far more than 34% that Labour had recently
(even though they ended up with even more parliamentary seats).
I don't necessarily think supporting Ukraine IS the actual problem (and thus information attacks or whatever you may think is going on),
I think it's merely taking your eye OFF the ball at home is just not popular in the long run.
Voters probably wonder "Well what about us and our future? Are OUR borders not important? etc"
Don't forget that even Winston Churchill surprisingly heavily LOST the 1945 general election that was called straight after WW2 ended.
Thus I think what I pointed out is a legitimate observation.
I suspect, IF, Trump wins in November he will hold ALL the cards what the outcome with
Ukraine - Russia will be and the European leaders will have to go along with whatever he wants.
I think it will be a swift end to the war. Can he do it whilst he is President-elect? It will be interesting to see.
Obviously I hope for that in a way, but I also hope that Ukraine does well out of any deal eventually, rather than gets shafted.
In that light it seems to me that only Trump is preparing for a possible off ramp.
Just giving more and more weapons to Ukraine surely cannot be the answer long term?
And by the way do I (also) think Putin is a cunt?
- Yes, 100%
