Zelensky: "I need ammunition, not a ride."
What a new and altogether foreign concept to all of us. The President, fighting right alongside his fellow country people.
I think of this dynamic in relatable terms. At work our managers (most of them anyway), stay out daily operations, electing to make adjustments to the graphs and figures. They devise ways to improve profits, filtering down information to a few key people involved with the associates and key leads.
If you think of it, the presidency runs much like that same pyramid. Everyone listens to, and protects the cocooned leader, as his main function is to run the country. Basically, the collective thought is that this man or woman is so important that they are above doing the humdrum and minutiae of the day to day task of actual toiling - or physical labor. They are seen as being above such things.
But are they? Example after example shows us that the more involved with your people, the more you understand (first hand, and not through reporting), what matters to them, and what make them tick. In essence, the more you forge relationships from people (by stepping away from the ivory booth), you gain an understanding of the dynamics of your core organization.
This tiktok war is disturbing and frightening, and a great tragedy. But, the Ukrainian people have given us a glimpse of their humanity, in a way that we've never seen before. We've seen the puppy Rambo, the soldier's sentinel - their watchdog. We've witnessed a Grandma in a babushka raising a middle finger in defiance. A Grandpa at 80 carrying his weapon in a leather bag, ready to lose everything, in order to defend his country. The best instance of push-back was the lady who stood in front of a soldier, offering him sunflowers - so that beauty would take another form, after he perishes. You can not help but love the Ukrainian people, their resolve, and their fortitude.
I admire President Zelensky and his willingness to die alongside his people. But, my structured past makes me wonder, if this is such a good idea? Sure the second, and third in line will step up in his stead, if the worst happens. But will the general consensus of love among the citizens that is helping them get through this crisis still remain, without Volodymyr? I'd like to think that as President if I was going to lose it all anyway, that I would want to give every effort up and until my dying breath, defending my democracy, my people and my country. That model sure is different than all others - where they send the sons and daughters of the the lower classes as sacrifice to do the country's bidding. And as a reward for risking life and limb, if they survive, they get a spiff consisting of a free, paid education. ~ WOW, some great trade-off!
I pose, that the President is not the whole heart of the people, but he is certainly a driving influence. What a man, what a people! 
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It just doesn't happen, until it does. 
