Zelensky's term expired yesterday.
I prematurely posted this back in March without fully understanding the Ukrainian political process.
Zelensky cancelled the elections in March. His term did not expire until this month.
While I'm sure it is illegal to cancel elections, I suppose he would still be the legitimate president until May, even if he lost the election, so he is only now the illegitimate usurper. This would be like cancelling US elections in November, when the new US president does not take office until 2 months later, January.
What's interesting is that this time, western media is actually reporting it.
Why would the west repeat the line that Zelensky is illegally occupying the office of presidency unless they are ready to throw him under the bus, possibly as the fall guy for the failed war efforts? "Yeah we really wanted to win but that corrupt dictator Zelensky just didn't follow our advice and now it's probably too late to win"
This supposed youtube of a Chinese merc hired by the Russians has been floating around the web for the past few days, and has gone viral.
What do you guys think? Real or fake?
100% fake.
If you have studied any body language or NLP that guy is throwing off huge tells that he is lying.
One of the most basic tells is eyes looking up and to the left.
This guy is doing that CONSTANTLY.
Then there are the ridiculous statements. 30 seconds in and I don't believe a word of what's coming out of this guy's mouth.
Plus it's just not how a mercenary would react. He's a paid killer. His only complaints should be if he's not getting adequate weaponry or support (there are videos of Latin American mercs getting angry at their Ukrainian paymasters for this).
"The fatality rate was like 8 to 10 hours."
5 seconds later...
"We fought for at least a month"
lol ok dude.
It's funny, you can almost tell sentence by sentence when he is lying vs telling the truth based off his absurd eye movements (it seems he really has served in a military and he looks to his right when saying things like "there were 12 guys in a squad" and then immediately left and says "I couldn't poop for 2 weeks".
I don't know anything about that guy, or his country, but based on physiognomy alone, I am all in with based black brother there.