Day 715
It is unsettling at best to see someone once considered a hero descend into madness, yet curiously unsatisfying to see the product of his idiocy cleanly and elegantly blown to smithereens. Maybe because I’m in Kyiv.
The weeks-long tragicomic dismissal of Ukraine’s commander-in-chief has been dictated by purely political, indeed very delicate, considerations. That’s unfortunate. Z appears less concerned with the reaction of society to his decision to sack a top general than with transitioning the entire country to total war.
The kurfuffle is less a conflict between Z and the military’s top brass than a tug-of-war in Z’s own mind. Pluracy in one head is called schizophrenia. The new law on forced military conscription is an excuse, not the reason for the president’s reticence to put all the country’s eligibility male adults on full wartime footing.
