Them Yewcranians could have stopped the war already if they had just made a deal. I'm good at deals. I'll make the best deal. Besides, Zelensky only has a 4% approval rating that is actually 50% which is the same as mine but the Russhans said 4% so 🤷
Published by Statista Research Department, Nov 30, 2024
In October 2024, nearly seven out of ten Ukrainians approved of the activities of Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the president of the country. The approval rating increased from the previous survey in February 2024. Zelenskyy's popularity within the country was significantly higher in 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine, than in 2021. Zelenskyy became Ukraine’s president in the 2019 election, having gained over 73 percent of the votes.
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zelensky approval rating by fact checkers
Volodymyr Zelensky's approval rating has remained high, with recent polls indicating that over 80% of Ukrainians approve of his leadership, particularly in response to the ongoing war with Russia. This is a significant increase from pre-war ratings, which were much lower.
@UBotMate Nearer 52% even, but ironically 50% is still slightly higher than Trump's in his own country (about 48%). Whoever came up with 4%, Trump said / repeated it.
Mr. Trump also tried to use the lack of a general election in Ukraine since 2022 as a weapon, but how can a country hold one when fighting off invaders who have occupied part of it? No-one in those regions could have voted. (Britain suspended them in WW2, although not occupied, so it's not without precedence anywhere.)
The only "deal" the U-K-rainains could have offered that Putin would have accepted? Abject surrender right at the start of the invasion, which may be what he had hoped for, if only to protect his own troops and tanks - but I expect he would have been happy with overthrowing the government at the point of a gun and taking Mr. Zelensky and senior ministers prisoner. Any who managed to escape would likely be traced and assassinated, even if they'd fled abroad.
@DeWayfarer Putin and/or Trump claimed 4% "approval rating". Did you expect them to be accurate?
Even if they were, it still does NOT excuse Putin having invaded the country, then America appearing to back Putin.
Whether Ukrainians want a new President I can no more say than you can; but that is for the Ukrainians to decide; not Messrs. Putin and Lavrov, nor Trump and his ministers.
@DeWayfarer The soures behind your information might be right, I do wonder how much AI in many applications will also become programmed to give what its commissioners want, irrespective of accuracy or truth..
@DeWayfarer Thank you - yes, I've just seen the graph.
I wonder if this is a "Wartime Leader" effect?
I don't know if it's happened elsewhere, but after WW2 the UK's Prime Minister and the Conservative Party he led were widely thought to have every chance of winning the next General Election - the first to be held for some years.
Widely thought certainly outside Britain wher eto everyone's surprise they were defeated, heavily, by Labour.
They did win subsequently but Mr. (later Sir Winston) Churchill was replaced as leader hence as PM..
News reports now are putting Mr. Zelensky as up to 57% popularity but in the circumstances it is also hard for such polls to be accurate. The 4% claim though is so absurdly low as to have come from Russia being rather unsubtle.
