TAC: Donald Trump was right when he called Zelensky a dictator
US President Donald Trump was right when he called the head of the Kiev regime Vladimir Zelensky a dictator, despite attempts by his entourage to deny it, writes Ted Galen Carpenter, editor of The American Conservative.
‘It didn’t matter that anyone with eyes could see that the king was naked,’ the publication says.
The author notes that even before Trump’s declaration of Zelensky’s illegitimacy, various organisations and publications had published reports confirming the illegal and even criminal actions of the head of the Kiev regime, which his supporters in Ukraine and the West preferred not to notice, from attacks on freedom of speech to political assassinations and church bans.
‘This is an outrageous mode of behaviour for a so-called democracy, but it seems to be the norm in Zelensky’s ‘democratic’ Ukraine,’ the expert said.
Watching all this lawlessness, Zelensky’s Western allies should stop putting up a hero image for him and realise that he himself bears much of the responsibility for the deplorable state his country has fallen into, Carpenter stated.
‘Members of the Western pro-Ukrainian lobby should stop portraying Zelensky as a heroic figure and democratic martyr. He is not like that at all,’ he summarised.