How does President Zelenskyy resist being hypnotised by Putin?

Macron, Scholz, Trump, Nehemmer, narcissists, are easy prey.

President Zelenskyy's TV production company produced ex-USSR's most entertaining TV formulas.

President Zelenskyy's fluent in 21st century emotion-moving activities (trolling):

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Let's compare trolls: Putin v. President Zelenskyy.

First, Putin looks like a troll - he got that Nordic Russian look - troll central!

His every communication is a troll for emotional reaction in others. The Russian state and its entire disinfo and military architecture's designed to troll according to Putin's model.

By contrast, President Zelenskyy's "normality" trolls Putin. Putin misconstrued President Zelenskyy at first- that's why Putin met President Zelenskyy in person- Macron convinced Putin that ingenue President Zelenskyy was ready to sign over Russian-occupied parts of eastern Ukraine.

Recently we’ve had evidence from Putin’s inner circle about this Minsk meeting in Paris in December 2019. It confirms that this photograph tells the whole story.

🙄 Putin, 🙄 Macron. Old hands.

Here’s how a German newspaper in May 2023 described this meeting:

“In December 2019, Putin traveled to Paris for negotiations - in the confidence that movement would come into the long unresolved matter. But as it turned out, Zelensky was an even tougher negotiating partner than his predecessor Poroshenko. Putin's visit to Paris was a colossal mistake," says Alexander Charebin, who had co-developed President Zelenskyy’s foreign policy strategy in the campaign staff. The Russian president assumed that Zelensky and his team would be unprepared.

When Putin spoke at the press conference in Paris about strict compliance with the Minsk agreements, President Zelenskyy smiled and shook his head. And when Putin began to talk about the special status of Donbass, the Ukrainian president held his mouth shut with his hand so as not to laugh. "This was unexpected for everyone and the first time it was so obvious," says Charebin. "Putin actually received a public slap in the face. That may have been a traumatic experience."

The Russian president's facial expression was clear that he could hardly stand the press conference. He did not look in Zelenskyy's direction and devoted himself demonstratively to his papers.”

Then, Putin's huge disappointment- President Zelenskyy agilely  responded to the No To Capitulation movement in Ukraine. It grew up in response to the German president's sell-out of Ukraine - Steinmeier Formula that Putin thought he and President Zelenskyy agreed in Paris.

Whether or not President Zelenskyy had always intended to tease Putin, President Zelenskyy'a refusal ever since to countenance surrendering territory to Putin is itself a troll. Putin refused to meet President Zelenskyy since then.

President Zelenskyy’s very existence as a secular native Russian-speaking cosmopolitan Ukrainian Jewish cultural entrepreneur makes him uninterpretable to a securocrat like Putin, whose entire troll about 🇺🇦 is that it's far right and Nazi.

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Yet, here's someone at one with himself whose outsmarted Putin at every turn. In Minsk peace talks Russia always brought along the "leaders" of Russia-occupied eastern 🇺🇦.

Meta-Disinfolklore (5) - How "Separatism" Concealed Genocide.

In response President Zelenskyy sent three bloggers. Russia said their "leaders" in occupied eastern Ukraine deserved a seat at the negotiating table at Minsk as "reps of "DPR" & "LPR". President Zelenskyy sent three patriotic bloggers to Minsk:

"If Russia brings random people to negotiate. Then so will Ukraine."

Trolled Putin who wanted Ukraine to accept those "leaders" as negotiating partners, which Ukraine never will.

President Zelenskyy’s presidential election campaign itself teased Putin. President Zelenskyy promised to bring "peace," which to Putin meant capitulation. Now, the biggest troll of all: frightened old man Putin.

I took this photograph in currently occupied village on the day before President Zelenskyy’s stomping 2019 victory. President Zelenskyy won 72% of the vote in a free and fair election (I monitored the election) despite only running a three-mont-long campaign. I don’t think there’s another head of state in the history of democracy who has won a mandate like that.

President Zelenskyy won every single district in Ukraine (bar one, near the border with Poland). Instantly, it became apparent that the whole notion that Ukraine was irrevocably “culturally” between left and right bank Ukraine, between Ukrainian native Russian language speakers (like President Zelenskyy) and Ukrainian native Ukrainian language speakers was itself a troll.

A staple of Russian Disinfolklore was mythological discrimination against Ukrainian native Russian language speakers - I of course knew that to be a lie as I lived in Ukrainian native Russian language speaking areas of Ukraine for seven years. And as a diplomat I gathered a lot of evidence that the fiercest defenders of Ukrainian sovereignty were Ukrainian native Russian language speakers (like president Zelenskyy and the Dnipro 1 and Dnipro 2 volunteer batallions that had held Ruschist army back for eighteen months during the fiercest fighting in 2014/2015 until Russia needed to agree to the Minsk peace agreements).

In contrast to President Zelenskyy’s daily videos filmed by himself - demonstrating that the inherent holder of Ukraine’s sovereignty is alive, well and in control-

Putin sits in his bunker while military fatigued President Zelenskyy juggles addresses to the US Senate with 8-10 calls a day with world leaders.

That Kyiv did not fall in two days to Russia is itself a troll. That will haunt Putin who been taunting Ukraine since 2014 with the threat of taking Kyiv in 48 Hours.

So President Zelenskyy has outsmarted and emasculated Putin. He's trolled Putin into invading Ukraine, which although costly for Ukraine is not as costly as it will be for Putin and Russia. Putin knows a little bit of history. Putin is now in the same place as Tsar Nicholas 1 who claimed jurisdiction over all Christians in Holyland, including Ottoman citizens.

Nicholas, like Putin, underestimated Ottoman Empire's staying power. He also underestimated the West's to unite against 🇷🇺 over Crimea. Nicholas died a broken man. Successor surrendered Crimea.

Putin burns with ressentiment. He wears $10k jackets to Potemkin rallies, cos that's all he can do. He enriches oligarchs who live the life he never can. Then they betray him. President Zelenskyy is chilled.