{"id":251899,"date":"2022-04-07T06:17:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T06:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=251899"},"modified":"2022-04-10T07:33:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-10T07:33:09","slug":"zelensky-says-post-war-ukraine-will-be-like-israel-wont-be-liberal-european","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=251899","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky Says Post-War Ukraine Will Be Like Israel, Won\u2019t Be \u2018Liberal, European\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Dave DeCamp \u2013 AntiWar.com April 5, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that post-war Ukraine <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/WveWI\">will be like a \u201cbig Israel\u201d<\/a> and won\u2019t be \u201cliberal\u201d like Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUkraine will definitely not be what we wanted it to be from the beginning. It is impossible. Absolutely liberal, European \u2014 it will not be like that. It [Ukraine] will definitely come from the strength of every house, every building, every person,\u201d Zelensky said. \u201cWe will become a \u2018big Israel\u2019 with its own face.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian leader said he expects society to be highly militarized. \u201cWe will not be surprised if we have representatives of the Armed Forces or the National Guard in cinemas, supermarkets, and people with weapons. I am confident that the\u00a0question of security will be the issue number one for the next 10 years. I am sure of it,\u201d he added,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky insisted that such measures wouldn\u2019t threaten democracy and wouldn\u2019t turn Ukraine into an authoritarian state. \u201cAn authoritarian state would lose to Russia. People know what they are fighting for,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>However, since the war started, Zelensky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/american-stuck-ukraine-because-ban-military-age-men-leaving-country-1690506\">has prohibited military-age males from leaving Ukraine<\/a>, banned <a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2022\/03\/20\/zelensky-bans-political-opposition-nationalizes-media-to-create-unified-information\/\">11 opposition political parties<\/a>, and nationalized the media. Hawks in the US often tout Ukraine <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/Wy9Rw\">as a \u201cliberal democracy\u201d worth defending<\/a>, and President Biden has framed the conflict in Russia <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-biden-business-warsaw-europe-c905f43858e7966afb3b6cbfbed82b46\">as a battle between \u201cautocracy\u201d and \u201cdemocracy.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2022\/04\/05\/zelensky-says-post-war-ukraine-will-be-like-israel-wont-be-liberal-european\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zelensky says he expects Ukrainian society will become highly militarized<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":194092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=251899"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251921,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251899\/revisions\/251921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/194092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=251899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=251899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=251899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}