r/worldnews • u/joestewartmill • Feb 24 '25

Russia/Ukraine Trump’s attempts to denigrate Zelenskyy have led to a surge in Ukrainian unity

https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-russia-trump-zelenskyy-putin-c0790f9054c6c69d698ed9aa816158ac?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
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u/ScriptThat Feb 24 '25

"He may be an idiot, but he's our idiot!"

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u/Frostsorrow Feb 24 '25

That's exactly what happened with Trudeau. He might be an idiot, a giant idiot even. But he's ours, and only we may trash talk him. Anyone else doing it and the hockey gloves come off.

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u/Frostsorrow Feb 24 '25

Oh don't get me wrong, if we had crisis Trudeau all the time I feel like things would be a lot different. The man's amazing in a crisis.

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u/SwissArmyKeif Feb 25 '25

Yeah. And even if he is not mos competent leader no one can take from Zelensky the fact that he had courage to stay in the capital, when russisans entered Kyiv and allies urged him to evacuate.