THE ACTOR AND THE SECRET AGENT

THE ACTOR AND THE SECRET AGENT- 

By Bernard Bujold- 

It was in the winter of 2022, on February 24, two years ago, that Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine. Putin called the invasion a civil war, while the rest of the Western world compared it to the Second World War of 1940. 

It could also be described as a confrontation between an actor and a secret agent... Volodymyr Zelinsky was a star actor on Russian television, and he admitted in his early days in politics that he wanted to use his fame to help Ukraine. In this respect, Zelinsky could even be compared to Donald Trump, who was also an American TV star (The Apprentice - NBC) and who used his fame to become President of the United States. 

A war is always an event of destruction and has nothing positive about it... 

What will be the conclusion? It's hard to predict, but if we analyze the situation, we see the same polarization of the population as we saw in Nazi Germany and everywhere else in the world in 1940. The whole planet had taken years to recover from those years of the Second World War. And so it will be with Russia's war against Ukraine. 

To be continued! 

Two books worth reading to better understand Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelinsky: 

PUTIN by Philip Short 

THE SHOWMAN by Simon Shuster