American politicians should take note, this is how you lead.
Fun fact: Before his candidacy for the office he now holds, this man was a media personality- a
stand-up comic.Well, look at this, folks: the Class Clown is now staring down the school bully- on the world's biggest playground.
He ain't going for the laffs this time... and he ain't backing down.
He understands that his country's future is at stake- and no matter the outcome, he's already writing how History will remember him as his peoples' leader.
His People are taking their cues from him- and are resisting Putin's efforts to the nth degree- in front of The Entire World's cameras.
Ukrainian citizens are taking to the streets, armed with automatic rifles their government has supplied, to defend their nascent democracy. They are already making this initiative bloodier, messier, and more internationally visible than Putin ever expected/calculated.
They remind me of a young, upstart democracy who defied the odds against an authoritative system that sought to own/direct them from afar, back in the late 1700's.
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Americans of every stripe should be rooting for these people. They are the modern embodiment of who we fought so hard to be... despite what we've allowed ourselves to become over the passing years. We are watching a fledgling democracy defend itself against existential extinction in the same way that America did in the war of 1812.
If we believe in the basic tenets of a working democracy, we should do all that we can to help these folks grow what they have planted.
just sayin'
