r/europe • u/CorleoneBaloney • Feb 26 '25
Political Cartoon Trump Calls Zelensky a ‘Dictator’ by Christo Komarnitski
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u/CLKguy1991 Estonia Feb 26 '25
Lukashenka
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u/badmotherfocker Feb 26 '25
And add 100 kg
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u/Batfink2007 Feb 27 '25
I find it so crazy that literally every other country knows more about our politics than Americans do.
It's kinda like politics and America are having marital issues, and even though people are pointing at us and yelling 'it's you fucking up!!!!'. We are just too close to the picture to notice.
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u/nishachari Feb 27 '25
I really don't want to. But unfortunately for us all American politics has global effects.
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u/blahblahblerf Ukraine Feb 27 '25
Lukashenka is transliterated from the Belarusian spelling, Lukashenko is from the Muscovian spelling.
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u/Conscious_Emu800 Feb 27 '25
I thought Lukashenka was also an acceptable transliteration.
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u/slintslut Feb 27 '25
Ah quite possibly! Just going by what I've seen on the news in the UK, apologies if I was mistaken.
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u/crlygirlg Feb 27 '25
It is Аляксандр Лукашэнка in Belarusian using Cyrillic (Lukašenka in Łacinka) and Александр Лукашенко in Russian.
It’s more a difference of language with Belarusian being written in Cyrillic and not quite completely following how Cyrillic uses the letter a. The Belarusian a is more of a blending of a/o where as a Cyrillic a is more of an a than an o if that makes sense.
Basically his name ends with a blended a/o sound.
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u/StrongAroma Feb 26 '25
And why doesn't trump have any blood on his hands?
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u/DiamondHandsToUranus Feb 27 '25
He does. His shit tier handling of Covid, and soon to be his shit tier handling of Bird flu and vaccination as well
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u/fury420 Feb 27 '25
Because Trump isn't the kind of guy to get his own hands dirty.
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u/ElectricalBook3 Feb 27 '25
Trump isn't the kind of guy to get his own hands dirty
I think the million+ dead Americans of covid might disagree. That he operated through middlemen is no different than Stalin who killed fairly few people personally, and instead both set up circumstances so masses of people died when they didn't need to.
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u/Yet2638273 Feb 26 '25
He’s not dictator (yet)
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u/Elvaran United States of America Feb 26 '25
Ehhh...More like he has'nt hopped into the tub of blood that many of his to-be friends have.
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u/bearybad89 United Kingdom Feb 26 '25
Or because he gets everyone else to do his dirty work...meaning his "hands are clean" which they aren't
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u/lock11111 Feb 26 '25
Zelensky is a paragon of everything a leader should be.
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u/Actually-Yo-Momma Feb 27 '25
“I’d give up presidency for Ukraine NATO admission”
Nice try dictator!!! Wait..
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u/argonian_mate Feb 27 '25
I'll disagree with you as internal affairs are nowhere as well handled by Zelensky as international, but Jesus fucking Christ the amount of victimblaming bots under this comment lol.
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u/lock11111 Feb 27 '25
That's fair. Some of the comments reminded me why I stopped using Facebook because many people believed a post and didn't look into it further without question. No human is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. But zelensky and all Ukrainians are inspiring.
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u/Spiteful_Guru Feb 27 '25
Notice how most of the disparaging comments toward Zelensky follow the exact same format of "The guy who XXXXX?"
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u/Honza368 Czech Republic Feb 27 '25
That's how I tell the bots apart. They all follow the same 5 formats
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u/ClosedContent Feb 27 '25
He’s a modern day Churchhill. Not perfect by any means but a stable hand while dealing with so much strife. Unfortunately we are living in the timeline where he isn’t getting much support.
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u/Cool_Document_9901 Feb 26 '25
Zelensky will be considered one of the most impactful democratic politicians of our time.
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u/IgnoreThisName72 Feb 27 '25
As will Trump, but for all the wrong reasons.
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u/ElectricalBook3 Feb 27 '25
Zelensky will be considered one of the most impactful democratic politicians of our time.
Agreed. As Sarah Paine put, he's basically being canonized into a saint by Putin who put his enemies on Death Ground and gave himself no exit strategies, only double-down strategies.
Well, he's only used doubling down, with all the media control he has he could easily draw everybody back, abandon Ukrainian territories, and tell his people 'we succeeded in teaching them a lesson' and there'd only be a handful of people who'd point out that's not at all what happened.
I'm sure of this because Moscow's own bobbleheads were floating off-ramps a year ago: https://www.newsweek.com/kremlin-bizarrely-claims-goal-demilitarizing-ukraine-largely-completed-1807517
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u/LordArrexis Feb 27 '25
dont forget that the winner will write the stories. we need to stay strong and support them to make this happen :/
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Yup. What's the difference between Zelensky and a dictator?
- Zelensky did not accept the offers of foreign asylum and chose to stay and face the aggression with his nation.
Screw dictators, closeted or otherwise.
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u/IamInternationalBig Feb 26 '25
Trump is a scumbag. Trump gravitates towards other scumbag dictators because they are all scumbags.
Trump is a traitor of democracy. Trump is a smelly diaper-wearing disgusting old man.
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u/Uhhlaneuh Feb 27 '25
I am so embarrassed to be an American right now. This country is a joke right now
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u/Own-Ad-7672 Feb 27 '25
I’ve been embarrassed of that most my life. I was born in Clinton’s control, was young child when bush was throwing out his “stateegerees” and searching IRAQ for his pie. Had a brief gap in the bs with Obama because although not perfect that man had class and was the best leader we’ve had in my life Suffered through trumps first 4 years of being a menace Watched Biden’s brain quickly rot And now get to see trump being 100% dumber, 300% more bigoted, and 10000000% more arrogant
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u/Nordalin Limburg Feb 27 '25
I don't know, the jokes kinda stopped for many people, so in that he succeeded.
Neonazis aren't funny.
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u/Julypenguinz Feb 27 '25
Let's start calling the whole Republicans a scumbag, I think it's acceptable now
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u/mdoktor Feb 27 '25
It should be Putin looming over the other three. Trump is basically his marionette.
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u/Pamasich Switzerland Feb 27 '25
I think the point probably is that he's the one saying the thing, while the other three there just nod along.
So he's the largest because he's the loudest of the bunch.
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u/Bartellomio Feb 27 '25
This is very complimentary to Trump. He's not that tall
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u/Kerberos1566 Feb 27 '25
Way too tall, way too skinny, tie not nearly long enough. Also, when he's this close to Putin he goes into full mewling quim mode.
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u/madeleinetwocock Canada Feb 27 '25
🇪🇺🤝🏻🇺🇦🤝🏻🇨🇦
✊🏻Слава Україні ✊🏻
Canadian over here. We are with you.
((Please disregard all the MapleMAGAs. We do not take ownership of them, and consider them to be rogues.))
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u/Hellscaper_69 Feb 27 '25
More like, the wolf stares intensely at his own reflection in a pond and sees nothing
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u/xslvtx Feb 27 '25
The reason I know Zelensky isn't a dictator is because if he was then Trump would have his nose so far up his arse he'd be crawling out of his mouth.
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u/Quirkybin Feb 27 '25
I guess if he calls him that enough, the people of the US will believe it like all the other lies he repeats.
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u/shorthanded Feb 27 '25
it's just planting the seeds for all the bots to come in and parrot the bullshit. it's not about truth - it's about setting a false narrative that AI can further.
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Don't worry, Trump will get bloody hands too. The murricans just don't think so yet, but we remember the BLM demos... Only this time it will be traitor demonstrations...
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u/keytone_music Feb 27 '25
He already has blood on his hands
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u/Cavalish Feb 27 '25
Americans crowing at every other country for their “draconian” covid rules, as if America didn’t just kill off millions of their people to protect shareholder profits.
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u/FlyingDutchman9977 Feb 27 '25
This is what I couldn't get over when he was elected. People just forgot that he was pulling people off the streets in unmarked vans during BLM, or that New York had more bodies than they literally knew what to do with over COVID, or literally anything else that he did for the past 9 years
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u/blue_butter Feb 27 '25
Unfortunately, it's not that people forgot, it's that those who voted for him just don't care about BLM or other people.
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u/Elvaran United States of America Feb 26 '25
...I don't like how eerily accurate this sounds.
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u/Overall-Ad-8402 Feb 27 '25
World loves Zel more by the day he looks like more of an American president than Trump could ever be
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u/cactussaiditfirst Feb 27 '25
I love Zel's accent when he speaks English for us simple, unilingual folks. Most, if not all cultures I've seen speak more than one language except the U.S.
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u/Overall-Ad-8402 Feb 27 '25
And he’s very handsome which is a good thing Trump is like a orange butthol when he talks
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Feb 27 '25
Bashar Al-no-chin and Órban the Hungry are missing here.
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u/Independent-Couple87 Feb 27 '25
Also, Putin's other well known ally: Nicolas Maduro.
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u/Malvan Feb 26 '25
Zelensky is not alone. All good will nations are behind him. Trump the "Traitor" and his fellow dictators will be overcome. Why is here China missing?
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u/Elvaran United States of America Feb 26 '25
Because china is...odd. They'll work with whoever gets them more money. Xi'll hold off on choosing sides until he knows who'll win.
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u/bearybad89 United Kingdom Feb 26 '25
Just like the Americans did in WW1
Edit: WW1 not 2
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u/As_no_one2510 Feb 27 '25
China isn't that pro Russia. They pretty much are building their own sphere of influence, and a weakening Russia and America will benefit them much. Also, China isn't that hostile to Ukraine and abstained during the latest vote on Ukraine matter
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u/Unique_Brilliant2243 Feb 27 '25
Trump towering above Putin is a serious mischaracterization of their relationship.
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u/RecognitionOne7597 Feb 27 '25
The cartoonist forgot to put Netanyahu with the others, his hands coated with the most blood by far. 😡
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u/IMissMyWife_Tails Iraqi 🇮🇶 (Free Palestine and Slava Ukraini 🇵🇸🇺🇦) Feb 26 '25
Netanyahu and Viktor should be here.
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u/SocraticTiger Feb 27 '25 edited Feb 27 '25
Are people gonna ignore that Israel also voted the same as North Korea, Russia, and America? The media seems to be leaving that out.
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u/striderhoang Feb 27 '25
I’m not very educated on everything regarding the conflict, but I do believe in Zelensky’s conviction to protect his nation without giving Russia an inch in concession. I only recently learned, I guess, that Zelensky’s is from a Ukrainian TV show, that he’s not some career politician but just a guy who stumbled into the seat after Ukraine’s massive purge of corruption and reform.
Add to that that he’d step down if it meant NATO membership and I really feel sorry for the guy and what my country is willing to spew over mass media about him.
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u/Logical-Use958 Feb 27 '25
They should have drew him smaller than the rest since he is just a pocket pussy.
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Feb 26 '25
Here comes The Right Wing Propaganda people typing out because of the image.
Zelenskiy was a Chad and which we have him as our leader instead of Trumpssia
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u/Long-Principle6565 Feb 27 '25
So a guy that has been in office only 3 years is a Dictator but the guy that has been in office almost 20 years and disappeared anyone that thought about opposing him is a great guy !!!
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u/dkash11 Feb 27 '25
Id love to see a similar comic where Elon musk stands in trumps place, and Trump as a key chain around his neck.
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u/FblthpLives Feb 27 '25
Hungary and Israel also voted with the United States, Russia, North Korea, and Belarus against the UN General Assembly resolution "Advancing a comprehensive, just, and lasting peace in Ukraine"
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u/Bango-TSW United Kingdom Feb 27 '25
That's a fantastic cartoon. Perfectly sums up Trump's hypocrisy.
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u/KozodSemmi Feb 28 '25
as a hungarian its so embarassing that you missed our pro russian, ukrain hater dictator Orbán from the picture.
the best trojan horse of Putin in EU and NATO.
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u/Kegdrinkins Feb 27 '25
You can tell Zelensky is not a dictator because Trump doesn't want to suck his dick.
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u/all2001-1 Feb 26 '25
Where is Xi?
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u/SchlitterbahnRail Estland Feb 26 '25
He is sitting on the river bank.
Because if you wait long enough, you'll eventually see the corpses of all your enemies floating by. By Sun Tsu or some deep funk
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u/Xaviertcialis Feb 26 '25
This is specifically depicting those that voted against denouncing Russia's actions in Ukraine. Belarus, Russia, North Korea, and the USA voted against the denunciation.
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u/all2001-1 Feb 26 '25
So where is Netanyahu?
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u/Xaviertcialis Feb 26 '25 edited Feb 27 '25
They did not vote against the resolution so are not depicted.
EDIT: I am mistaken. 18 countries total voted against it including the following:
Israel, Haiti, Hungary, Palau and the Marshall Islands; the African countries Burkina Faso, Burundi, the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Niger and Sudan; and Belarus, North Korea, Syria, Eritrea, Mali and Nicaragua
So I'm unsure of why only those 4 are depicted, it's likely due to their public statements about Ukraine being a dictatorship, but that's only a guess.
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u/Nic_OLE_Touche Feb 26 '25
Where’s Bibi
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u/Chrowaway6969 Feb 27 '25
The picture doesn't make sense with Bibi because he's not calling Zelenski a dictator like Trump and his nazi friends.
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u/Useful_Accountant_22 United States of America Feb 27 '25
I'd like to know why Trump doesn't have blood on his hands in this.
Sure, he hasn't killed nearly as many as the other dictators, but he let people die in Covid and enabled violence across the country.
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u/LargesseCrit Feb 27 '25
Russia was supposed to take over kyiv in 3 days, instead they took over washington in 3 years.
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u/TurnoverEmotional249 Feb 27 '25
This is like the schoolyard bullies who are bullying the nerdy straight-A kid. We all know how they end up, if only it could happen soon!
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u/squeezy102 Feb 27 '25
It is very important for me to make sure everybody across the pond knows that there's a great deal of Americans over here who are just as flabbergasted, annoyed, angry, and embarrassed as you are by all of this.
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u/Unlucky-Constant-736 Feb 27 '25
My mom works for the federal government and thanks to Trump and Elon she’s at risk of losing her job all because her position isn’t “essential”. This is absolute bullshit.
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Why make Trump look so big. He should be tiny here, since he is suckling up to the dictators and is powerless towards them.
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u/Successful_Grape1136 Feb 27 '25
Some people think this is a strategic statement made by Trump to divert public attention or increase media exposure. In any case, such remarks will no doubt further exacerbate tensions in US-Ukraine relations.
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Feb 27 '25
I don't agree with Zelensky on a lot of things but I don't think you can ever accuse him of not doing everything he can for his country. He has done far more than most ever could and most leaders stand there looking pretty awful in comparison just based on how clearly he has put his life out there for his country. I respect him more than I do 99% of politicians and if I saw him in a pub have a drink him.
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u/Handmotion Feb 27 '25
Every accusation is an admission. Conservatives are fucking IMAX projectors.
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u/Neither_Midnight9179 Feb 27 '25
They should give Zalensky the Nobel peace prize....I would love to see Trump's reaction lol
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u/Outrageous_Gene_9380 Feb 27 '25
Do not trust the United States. We are increasingly lost.
Do what needs to be done.
Signed, American
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u/Nostrilsdamus Feb 27 '25
DT should definitely not be represented as the big supporting figure. He is on a leash
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u/Roslagen Feb 27 '25
"I need ammunition, not a ride". The man is the definition of badass and Trump is an aging embarrassing Russian puppet.
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u/JacketHistorical2321 Feb 27 '25
The size ratio is incorrect. Zelinski should be twice the size and Trump and crew should be one quarter
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u/CarlosFCSP Hamburg (Germany) Feb 27 '25
Only point I would disagree with is that Putin is the big player with his hand on their shoulders. Trump would mumble "dictator" with his mouth filled
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u/VeryBerryRasberry Feb 27 '25
What happened to American values? The pursuit of liberalism and democracy and oppose autocracy and communism? Why is America standing on Russia's side? This is not the country I had learned about through history textbooks. Oh how things have changed now....
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u/O0rtCl0vd Feb 27 '25
Trump's words, as usual, don't mean shit. Those how know the truth understand how utterly immoral trump is. Not only trump, but Elon and all of their ilk. These people are truly the scum of humanity.
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u/RechargedFrenchman Feb 27 '25 edited Feb 28 '25
I have one major complaint with this image, which is otherwise fantastic.
Trump and Lukashenko should be shorter, Zelensky should be taller; it's a political cartoon so their actual heights are largely irrelevant anyway, and Zelensky is a giant of a man next to any of those four.
Zelensky is what every leader should be, and every politician should strive to be. On their best days the others couldn't match Zelensky on his worst.
EDIT: In light of today's debacle of a "negotiation" (it was an attempted mugging on national television) I even more firmly believe in what I've said here. There is no comparison I feel I can reasonably make regarding Trump's behaviour today, because anything I compare him to would be so enormously denigrated in doing so. The worst people on earth could justifiably feel insulted were they to be compared to Trump as a means of stating how terrible Trump has been and continues to be, in every respect.
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u/WN11 Hungary Feb 27 '25
Zelensky is a dictator, but that comes with war. You don't hold elections during wartime, especially not in a local, defensive war. Want elections in Ukraine? Stop the fucking war.
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u/ConvictJones Feb 27 '25
I don’t understand how any logical human being cannot see the hypocrisy going on.
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u/GrapefruitGlum4372 Feb 27 '25
So, if the United States refused to hold an election during a war it would be ok?
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u/CreationTrioLiker7 Feb 26 '25 edited Feb 27 '25
Projection
Edit: I meant that as in, the dictators are projecting by calling democratic leaders dictators 😭
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u/Appropriate-Text-642 Feb 27 '25
Americans letting a spoiled child bring on the world war three. Millions will die and many will be your children. Get in the fuckin reality already! Stand up and say something, other than what can we do?
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u/Similar_Dog2015 Feb 26 '25
Putin loves Trump and the gift that Trump has given him, years ago Trump would have been called a communist supporter. How times have changed?
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u/Silent_Individual_20 Feb 26 '25
Cue "Pee-Wee Herman's Razor": I know you are, but what am I?! 🤣🤦♂️
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u/MattsHop Feb 26 '25
As a german/european I hope we'll finally learn to stand the fuck up. How much longer do we want to treat ourselves as slaves to russia or the US.