We've viewed Russia's Vladimir Putin as the bad guy and Urkraine's Volodymr Zelenskyy as the good guy. But now Zelenskky is going from hero to we'd-better-reconsider-that. As he fires a list of top officials, charges of graft and corruption are being leveled against him.
Some say Zelenskyy is well within his right to appoint whomever he wants as his senior officials and can whomever he wants -- especially if he sees them as collaborating with Russia. And, perhaps that should be conceded as correct. But, media pundits are not seeing it that way.
Accusations against Zelenskyy are not new. And those accusations against Zelenkskyy intertwine with accusations against Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Remember the Hunter Biden affair? Remember Trump's vieled bribery of Zelenskyy?
Nor is corruption in Ukraine as new as even that. Remember in 2013 how 20,000 marched on the presidential palace of Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovich, mad that he used graft and corruption to get elected? No, that you don't remember that one.
So, as tired as all this becomes, and as much as we just want to move on, we should go back and revisit it all.
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