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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHuge crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia listens to Zelinskyy (amazing video)
Watch the whole video, there is an English translation.
Link to tweet
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Budi
(15,325 posts)This response has to be incredibly encouraging to Zelenklskyy
highplainsdem
(48,999 posts)gademocrat7
(10,659 posts)Otto_Harper
(509 posts)which may help to keep it independent, but, by doing and saying what he has been, he has given Putin an insoluble problem. If he lets Zelensky live, he will undermine Putin on the world stage. If he has him killed, he will have created a larger than life martyr that no one will be able to stand against.
mysteryowl
(7,390 posts)Karadeniz
(22,528 posts)A bit more than some in another Georgia I can think of)....
AntiFascist
(12,792 posts)NickB79
(19,253 posts)Take back South Ossetia and Abkhazia. There's not much Putin could do about it.
EleanorR
(2,393 posts)BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)DENVERPOPS
(8,835 posts)Trump will be on the airwaves telling his numb-nut crowd that this is photo shopped, and actually pictures the un-fathomable number of people at one of his rallies.......
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)SleeplessinSoCal
(9,123 posts)Zelensky is the Man of the Century.
soldierant
(6,880 posts)BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)He is the bad guy in this real life drama. No matter how hard he pushes fear and violence in an attempt to repress whats happening the resistance will push back even harder. The genie is out of the bottle and there is nothing Putin can do to change that fact.
erronis
(15,290 posts)I don't know all of putin's influences, but I'm betting Orban, Modi, Bolsinaro are part of the group.
Make sure we apply the same tourniquets to them all.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)NQAS
(10,749 posts)I assume Russian, but I wouldn't be surprised to learn it was Georgian.
lanlady
(7,134 posts)but the subtitles on the TV are in Georgian.
speak easy
(9,259 posts)dchill
(38,502 posts)crickets
(25,981 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,608 posts)He never has and never will get this kind of support, unless they are ordered to attend under the threat of prison.
MontanaMama
(23,322 posts)calimary
(81,304 posts)And hes gonna win the narrative either way. He already has. A REAL-LIFE David vs Goliath.
And even if hes captured or killed, Heaven Forbid, but his reputation will be cast in concrete and bronze. Wounded, hes a continuing inspiration of great bravery and sacrifice. If hes killed, hell be elevated to martyr status. And in such an event, there will arise a huge worldwide appeal to the Pope to consider canonization. And the Pope just might be inclined to frustrate Bad ol Vlad in a way that only His Holiness could do.
Glorioski! I can just imagine the appeals to
Rome now. The pilgrimages! The international prayer appeals! The entreaties of some of the most sympathetic victims (the Ukrainians) on earth! Who would have the heart to say no?
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)Mr. Evil
(2,845 posts)They're raking in the $$$$$$. They're all run by money grubbing russiapublicans. Ratings, ratings, ratings. Money, money, money.
sky_masterson
(416 posts)I hope he stays safe.
honest.abe
(8,678 posts)James48
(4,436 posts)Thats what the Z stands for!
Z!
Cha
(297,283 posts)Support of Ukraine!
Ukraine also needs Tactical Support! 💙
Joinfortmill
(14,428 posts)bdamomma
(63,868 posts)Putin is not mentally well, can't one of his generals, or anyone else just "off" him.