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KHARKIV, Ukraine – In the weeks leading to last month’s NATO Vilnius Summit, in Lithuania, the collective West could barely contain its disappointment in Ukraine’s “much anticipated counter-offensive”
May 20 marks the fourth anniversary of Volodymyr Zelensky’s inauguration as Ukraine’s president. Speaking to Sputnik, Nikolai Azarov, a veteran politician with over twenty years of experience in Ukrainian politics under his belt, opened up on Zelensky’s political origins, his disastrous tenure in office, and his unenviable future.
"War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade." Percy Bysshe Shelley "War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is…