At the D-Day ceremony in France, a WWII veteran tried to kiss Zelenskyy's hand, but he knelt down to the vet and thanked him for saving Europe.
I get that in political office everything in the public eye is a sort of show. What clothes you wear, how you handle yourself, the speeches etc.
So I get that to some people anything a politician does is purely for their own benefit. Nobody wants to look bad of course. But to me this seemed more genuine than most.
And just imagine what was going through the mind of that veteran! You do your part when you were young, filling out the forms, standing in the lines, training. Probably having doubts that they would make it out in one piece. Then decades later being thanked in person by a leader from the generations of children that didn't even exist in the world you fought for, but who also understands the realities and tolls of conventional war at an individual level. It's got to be surreal.
@SomeAmateur @LaFinlandia As someone who has entered politics later in life, I can attest to the "optics" that, yes, everything you do does "appear" to be for somebody's benefit. I can also tell you that much of what you see is simply us. That's who and what we are-unvarnished. I suspect that with Zelenskyii just about everything is WYSIWYG to use the early computer acronym-what you see is what you get. That's just him.
What's funny about this is that he used to be an actor.
I fully support Ukraine and Zelenskyy, in case anybody gets the wrong idea.
Typical Zelenskyy W
Oh well that was the kind of goodness I needed to end my day. Now seems like an opportune moment for bed. o/
Then he sang in Elvish.
wtf? straight up propaganda
if this even is propaganda (what is very controversial), it's the good kind; the kind that inspires people to be thankful for what has been passed down to them and to treat others with respect.
Properganda
ruzzians are mad about it.
Terrorists mad
100%, it's honestly disgusting at this point watching the western power structure parade this war around. It's off putting, no wonder people's apetite for it has dried up.
Wholesome as hell
Sometimes I scoff at "charisma" being a trait looked for in leaders but then I see anything Zelenskyy and I'm reminded yeah ok damn I can see that. The man is arguably one of the most effective politicians ever elected. And wholesome af. Hopefully one day he can go back to comedy.
He deserves a beer and a beach, dude is going to go down in history as one of the greats. "I need ammo, not a ride".
Slava Ukraini
He had a lot of practice being an entertainer.
This is not intended as a slight. Charisma can be learned like many other skills.