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The mobster style assassination of Andriy Parubiy shouldn't really have shocked us. The hardcore Bandera supporter who was part of the so-called 'revolution' which emerged in 2014 in Ukraine became a target of Zelensky's new cabal surrounding him, according to recent reports.
The 'new Banderistas' who possibly saw the former house speaker as a threat to the President and so a crude, but effective message was sent to anyone who thinks they might have a shot at becoming Ukraine's new president, either by the ballot box or via a coup d'etat: know what you're taking on.True, gangster-like hits like Parubiy - who was shot at point blank range from someone who arrived on an electric bicycle - are nothing new. Just this year in May, Andriy Portnov, a former aide to former President Viktor Yanukovych was shot dead in Madrid by multiple hit men in front of his children.
What both these men have in common is not only their first names though.
Both Parubiy and Portnov probably had ambitions about being president or at the very least have had discussion with key figures in Trump's circle. Trump has hardly made any secret about being disappointed in Zelensky and with the recent events post the Alaska meeting, where any chance of placing him and Putin at a table being dashed completely,
it must be clear to Zelensky and his cabal that Trump is looking more than ever for someone to replace him. His final dramatic act of making impossible demands with regards to a peace settlement drove home the point that while the Europeans have invested everything in his incumbency, there is only one way now for Putin to go: forward.
This most recent assassination is part of many to come, I would venture. Zelensky knows that his popularity must be quite low given that a recent poll identified almost 70 percent of Ukrainians who wanted the war to end - something which he is programmed not to do, given that the moment that would happen martial law would end and he would be forced to roll out presidential elections.
Comment: How deep and dark the minds that plan and execute Israeli hell.