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The president of the world πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦

Aug 19, 2022

So many things happened this year that sometimes it seems we are living this 2022 for a decade, and we are still in August.

For the whole world in general, an attempt of returning to normal life was just cut off by the ignorance of some countries which do not accept an international order based on democracy. For Ukraine in particular, it has been representing an existential challenge that goes along every single aspect of every Ukrainian citizen, no matter the region, age, income, or whatever could pose a illusion of difference among us.

One Ukrainian in particular is living these challenges in a level few times seen in history. A young man, president of a nation that never was part of the world's mainstream, making his debut as a politician, father of two children, was suddenly elevated to one of the most important personalities of the world.

Which also delivered to him every sort of defamatory campaigns people can develop against each other. Detractors, however, always comes as a sign of some good job being done. And he is executing his one with a mastery typical of the great leaders of humanity.

His name is Volodymyr Zelenskyy, my fellow countryman from Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (although born in Kryvyi Rih, not Dnipro like me). We elected this man when he was only 41 years old to give a new breathe to our politics, dismantle our old background of corruption, and securing closer relations with our European partners.

He was known by every Ukrainian by his career as a comedian and an actor. In 2019, Ukraine was taken itself as a joke by electing a president who used to dedicate his life to make jokes, but we were sure about our decision. We knew what we were doing and history proved we were right.

It could be said that Ronald Reagan shared his same profession and managed to drive well his terms in office, but we didn't even need to take that into account. There was something in our soul telling us that young man would make a critical difference in a future still to be uncovered.

And he has definitely been making all the difference. Six months ago, when the whole world was shocked with the military maneuvers of Russia around our borders, so-called experts all around the world were trying to prove Ukraine would be entirely dominated in three days so Zelenskyy should back down and concede to Russia demands.

Our president was intelligent enough to understand that Russia uses blackmail as strategy on every matter and concessions would lead only to the extinction of Ukraine as a State or a viable State. His cleverness made him remember the tremendously high standards of our military, able to resist, and to fight on equal terms on the event of a invasion from a nuclear power.

His rationality was such that he immediately understood that war was not only against Ukraine, but against civilization and all the basic standards it provides to the masses of the world: democracy, free speech, freedom, rule of law, and so on. These privileges, Russia could never experience by itself, and their backwardness will never let Russians understand how fundamental they are to a society.

The only thing we intend to share with Russia is the cyrillic alphabet. We are European, we don't know how to live a life apart from these civilizational principles. And we are thankful everyday for having someone like Zelenskyy as our president because he represents these values we so strongly believe.

He could made a deal with Russia in exchange of personal gains at expense of his people, like almost always the case along history, or he could have left Ukraine when the situation started to get ugly, but he did nothing like that.

His dignity made him stand in his capital, with his people, taking full command of the resistance, and inspiring everyone by remember we are great and glorious.

Three years passed since he sworn in as the 6th President of Ukraine. One can say he looks tired and lived 10 years. Although no one can be sure, people used to say he doesn't sleep. Anyway, since March, he certainly lived the equivalent of several lives in terms of experience.

I'm sure the whole world is also thankful for having Zelenskyy not only as our president, but as a distinguished leader of the free world, just because Russian barbaric methods are a menace to every single person in this planet. This man, by countering Russia, is decidedly not thinking only in his country.

Young Zelenskyy, today, is not only president of Ukraine. He is president of the world.

If not politically, but the world composed by our hearts and our souls.

Hearts and souls that still dream for justice and peace.

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