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July 29, 2025
Job Application à la Ukraine

An aspirant for the presidency of Ukraine presents his job application via Vogue-Ukraine (in Russian).


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Writes Strana (machine translation):

According to the article's liner notes, in the column, the ambassador "discusses the roots of identity, the power of unity, and the main historical lessons that Ukrainians are forced to learn right now." Zaluzhny also writes a lot about himself: his childhood with a quote from the teacher Vasily Sukhomlinsky, traditions in the family, the first embroidery.

In his opinion, the citizens of Ukraine have learned several important lessons in recent years:

  • "we did not allow ourselves to be deceived, because we are the people and the state";
  • the greatness and power of the enemy are not always what their leaders and propagandists imagine them to be;
  • a neighbor who helps you in trouble helps himself first of all;
  • "the enemy, who has not broken you on the battlefield, will immediately begin to break you in the rear", only more insidiously;
  • there are no miracles in war.

The magazine accompanied Zaluzhny's column with a photo of him as an imposing bourgeois.

One wonders who is the one who really pushing him.

Comments

Yes..yes..everything is perfect…perfect.
Posted by: S Brennan | Jul 30 2025 16:35 utc | 200

You say it’s perfect, you are entitled to your opinion, comparing to the shitshow the USA usualy make.
I’d say it’s fine, losses are acceptable, Russia can go on like this for years.
So then, what’s your point?

Posted by: Rutte | Jul 30 2025 16:51 utc | 201

Doesn’t anyone remember Vietnam. Replacement of Diem by Minh, Ky etc. US trying to change war by changing one corrupt puppet for another. Puppets can be more trouble than they’re worth. Russia found out with Assad.

Posted by: Mbartv | Jul 30 2025 16:57 utc | 202

Quote Timur 3
“living in UK, where they may be a bit difficult to be eliminated”
Why ? Why give protection to fugitives in England which lives off money laundering of stolen Wealth from other countries . This piracy must be stopped by annihilating the pirates themselves.russia, china and others are stupid to give benefit of doubt to that pirate country called england . It is high time that evil be sorted out .
For that Putin, lavrov must be kicked out .

Posted by: sam | Jul 30 2025 17:04 utc | 203

I’d say it’s fine, losses are acceptable, Russia can go on like this for years” – Rutte 201
If Gen. Westmoreland was alive today he’d be so proud of you, he said exactly the same thing as you and with just as much detachment. I must say, some commenters here seem to have adopted Kamala Harris’s thinking by “unburdening themselves from that which has been”.
For those that have been “unburdened by that which has been” here’s a refresher:
Russia today has a population of roughly 150 million. In 1963 the US population was 190 million. In three years Russia has lost twice as many as the US lost in the 12 years of being directly involved in the Viet Nam war. If you were doing the actual fighting, if people in your family were doing the dying, if you had any direct experience with war you wouldn’t be so caviler…so calloused to the agony of the soldiers and their families bearing the burdens of this war. As I said above, if that disgusting sociopath Westmoreland was alive today, he’d be bleeping proud of you.

Posted by: S Brennan | Jul 30 2025 17:47 utc | 204

Posted by: S Brennan | Jul 30 2025 17:47 utc | 204

If you were doing the actual fighting, if people in your family were doing the dying, if you had any direct experience with war you wouldn’t be so caviler…so calloused to the agony of the soldiers and their families bearing the burdens of this war. As I

You. Noises dismissed.

Posted by: Laurence | Jul 30 2025 18:00 utc | 205

HERMIUS#121…it is bit too early celebrate downfall of Z….

Posted by: sejmon | Jul 30 2025 18:30 utc | 206

@ S Brennan | Jul 30 2025 17:47 utc | 204
I imagine that Russians feel that the fight in the Ukraine is more compelling than fighting-age Americans ever regarded fighting in Vietnam: defeating the recrudescence of Nazism (of which the Russians have bitter memories) among a brother people on the one hand versus defeating a popular national liberation movement to prop up some kleptocrats halfway around the world on the other.

Posted by: malenkov | Jul 30 2025 18:34 utc | 207

He looks like a fat old Nazi faggot.

Posted by: JRSmith | Jul 30 2025 18:59 utc | 208

A friend of mine once had a Vauxhall Cavalier; he used to complain so much about it he might have been a caviler: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/cavil

to make unreasonable complaints, especially about things that are not important

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Jul 30 2025 19:03 utc | 209

For those that have been “unburdened by that which has been” here’s a refresher…Russia today has a population of roughly 150 million. In 1963 the US population was 190 million. In three years Russia has lost twice as many as the US lost in the 12 years of being directly involved in the Viet Nam war.
If you were doing the actual fighting, if people in your family were doing the dying, if you had any direct experience with war you wouldn’t be so [cavalier]…calloused to the agony of the soldiers and their families bearing the burdens of this war. As I said above, if that disgusting sociopath Westmoreland was alive today, he’d be bleeping proud of you
” – S Brennan 204
…it’s fine, losses are acceptable, Russia can go on like this for years” – Rutte
Noises dismissed” – Laurence
It’s really shocking to read how many people willingly define themselves as sociopaths. Their sympathy for Russian interests is driven solely by an internal motivation, an antipathy towards other polities for whom Russia is no more than a handy bludgeon.
This is exactly the same motivation/methodology of the sociopaths who started this proxy war, “fight to the last man in ex-ukrainian” is being mirrored by those sociopaths here, those with a personal agenda, an ideological axe to grind “fight to the last Russian” they cry unaware how ironic they are. Sad and comical.
A very sad parody of history’s “revolutionaries”, a difference without a distinction.

Posted by: S Brennan | Jul 30 2025 19:54 utc | 210

Isn’t the door knob on the photo a little bit low?
C
Posted by: CSOstsgx60 | Jul 29 2025 20:23 utc | 63
Nope. That’s the door to Zelensky’s office. Mental and literal midget.

Posted by: joedontsurf | Jul 30 2025 19:57 utc | 211

“It’s really shocking to read how many people willingly define themselves as sociopaths. Their sympathy for Russian interests”Posted by: S Brennan
Eat it, Nazi.

Posted by: Laurence | Jul 30 2025 20:14 utc | 212

Not shocked by your presumptuous contraptions, Brennan.

Posted by: Laurence | Jul 30 2025 20:18 utc | 213

Talking of London… here is Zaluzhny schmusing at Rothschild and Co:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rothschildandco_globaladvisory-geopoliticaladvisory-sovereignadvisory-activity-7267903341542662144-LFKL
“We were delighted to host Ukraine’s Ambassador to UK, General Valerii Zaluzhnyi in a City discussion, convened by William Wells, joined by Rothschild & Co’s Global Advisory colleagues, Ravi Gupta, Giovanni Salvetti and Nicola King.
#GlobalAdvisory #GeopoliticalAdvisory #SovereignAdvisory #Ukraine”

Posted by: CSOstsgx60 | Jul 30 2025 21:11 utc | 214

Their sympathy for Russian interests is driven solely by an internal motivation, an antipathy towards other polities for whom Russia is no more than a handy bludgeon.
This is exactly the same motivation/methodology of the sociopaths who started this proxy war, “fight to the last man in ex-ukrainian” is being mirrored by those sociopaths here, those with a personal agenda, an ideological axe to grind “fight to the last Russian” they cry unaware how ironic they are.

Posted by: S Brennan | Jul 30 2025 19:54 utc | 210
Well stated and quite perceptive. It is remarkable how little they care about the Russian soldiers who are killed or maimed, and their families.

Posted by: ThouShalt | Jul 30 2025 22:07 utc | 215

Well stated and quite perceptive. It is remarkable how little they care about the Russian soldiers who are killed or maimed, and their families.
Posted by: ThouShalt | Jul 30 2025 22:07 utc | 215
As compared to how much you Nazis care about them.

Posted by: Laurence | Jul 31 2025 0:00 utc | 216

…In three years Russia has lost twice as many as the US lost in the 12 years of being directly involved in the Viet Nam war…
Posted by: S Brennan | Jul 30 2025 17:47 utc | 204

In the USA in 2022 only 107 941 person died from drug overdose, why don’t you cry about them?
I don’t believe in your compassion towards Russian people. Anyway, Russia and Russian soldiers do not need your bemoaning, they voluntary do what they consider necessary to cleanse the country of the Western dirt. Yea, some young lives are lost, but the honor is gained,
It’s not sociopathic to wish honor and victory to your country, but I don’t think you do not know it. I am sure you know and your pearl-clutching is not hysteric, it’s “Russiapathic”.

Posted by: Rutte | Jul 31 2025 0:18 utc | 217

In the USA in 2022 only 107 941 person died from drug overdose, why don’t you cry about them?
Posted by: Rutte | Jul 31 2025 0:18 utc | 217
_______
All-American answer: “Because they deserved it!”

Posted by: malenkov | Jul 31 2025 1:28 utc | 218

All-American answer: “Because they deserved it!”
Posted by: malenkov | Jul 31 2025 1:28 utc | 218

And that is why almost all Russians don’t want to be ruled by Americans.
Now some people will die in the process of healing from the Western values, but later on it will more than even-out.

Posted by: Rutte | Jul 31 2025 4:58 utc | 219

The Russian people know what will happen to them if the greedy westerners get their paws on their country. They had a taste of it in the 90s. Clear as night and day what Putin has brought to them since 1999. The West has made barely an inch of progress in the same time, instead their towns and cities are festering eyesores of human filth & depression. The sacrifice the Russian soldiers make is never forgotten nor taken for granted. The war strategy of Russia is easy to see. Territory is used as a means to eliminate the enemy not solely for its acquisition. That’s why they will yield ground when the cost appears too high while the other side keeps throwing bodies into the incinerator. Todays heroes will be remembered just as the ones of the Great Patriotic war are. Look at US or British veterans standing outside your typical London Tube station and see if they feel the same.

Posted by: DaVinci | Jul 31 2025 8:53 utc | 220

The fat irony is that Russians seem to be only people who don’t want Ukraine wiped out of the face of earth. The West, particularly the Hiltler babies now in power in the EU don’t care a hang. Anyone who believe that replacing the short devil with this crook would make any difference in favor of Ukraine needs their head examined.
He would probably do something reckless which would bring a more devastating fury of Russia down on the whole show. But perhaps that is the whole calculation of the Western Nazis. Believing, wrongly, that they can once again set the world on fire and then scrape some profits after the fire has subsided. Well, I think the West is in for a rude shock this time around.

Posted by: Steve | Jul 31 2025 9:58 utc | 221

LOL, someone’s been playing with image manipulation:
https://postimg.cc/k21m8zkh
He should start a glam-rock tribute band, Roxy Music perhaps…

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 1 2025 18:00 utc | 222

@221
What is missing in Kiev today?
Immensely different than 1963 Saigon is there are no Halberstams, Arnetts, Procnaus etc dogging US advisors and watching weapons deliveries.
Sadly, this is so because US has no independent press.
Same as Saigon 1963 the government exist by US allowing

Posted by: paddy | Aug 1 2025 18:08 utc | 223