CAN DEMOCRACY BE TAKEN FROM UKRAINE?

If we leave aside the seductive retort that where there is nothing, not even death takes away, we can examine the form of the supposedly inalienable Ukrainian democracy, which is characterized by the breakup of the country into two Ukraines (Knapová does not state whether they are both inalienably democratic).

The first, according to Knapová, is the ruling one, headed by the president, who, thanks to the war and the sacrifices of "ordinary" people, strengthens its power and inviolability, gets rich and takes the war as a new reality, which it has learned not only to live with, but also to use. Politicians, high-ranking civil servants, their closest, important colleagues and friends do not have to fear conscription to the front, they are not threatened with death in the trenches or falling to the bottom of existence.

According to Knapová, the second Ukraine is those who die for it and keep it afloat. They help the fighters with their last strength and money, they save starving, sick or injured civilians and animals in the frontline areas. Most of this Ukraine is made up of tens of millions of people in safer parts of the country who have not fled across the border and are working despite the war.

And at the head of this divided Ukraine is President Zelenskyi, who addresses the bleeding nation almost every evening from his office. However, according to Knapová, it has one flaw – it is about monologues. Zelenskyy hasn't talked to people for a long time, he doesn't respond to unpleasant questions from journalists, he doesn't comment on fundamental issues. Instead, he gives out honors and shares it on networks. He gives interviews mainly to large foreign media, where he is sure that they will not bring up the unresolved corruption cases, the fatal failure in the army, which every day unnecessarily costs the lives of Ukrainian soldiers whose heroism he is proud of.

Knapová thinks that Zelenskyi is successful on the international stage, but fails as the president of his nation. Ukrainians are no longer his people. He doesn't care about them. He doesn't listen to them.

However, Ukrainians have been fighting tenaciously for the fifth year and dying for a sovereign, free and democratic country. They will not let the Russians steal it, nor anyone from home, concludes Knapová.

I'm probably not the only one who is embarrassed by this text. Nice - and exceptionally true to the Right! – Knapová first described the rather terrifying Ukrainian reality (and she didn't write about gold-plated toilets and huge sums of money, the end of which the Pentagon, as a donor, cannot trace). But then she called it an inalienable democracy.

Is there a problem in the understanding of the word democracy, which means the rule of the people - while in Ukraine everyone else really rules, but it is not the people? Or is he – rather – confusing a sad reality with a vision so distant as to be truly inalienable?

In any case, this unprecedentedly open criticism of the Zelensky regime is interesting. All the more so because it is not unique. It is confirmed once again that what a few days ago would have been labeled as Russian propaganda by warmongers is now objective information. And the time of transubstantiation of this alleged lie into truth is getting shorter and shorter. It is almost no longer worth calling someone a misinformer. So fast are the changes that it's starting to look like the disinformers are right.

Something must be going on. The collective West has apparently given permission to criticize Zelensky. Something is in the air. Finals coming up?