Time Magazine Names Volodymyr Zelensky “Person Of The Year”

This morning Time Magazine published their annual Person of the Year ‘award,’ giving it to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

The other candidates up for deliberation were:

• Elon Musk (Twitter owner; Tesla, SpaceX, Nuralink)
• Xi Jinping (Chinese President)
• The U.S. Supreme Court
• MacKenzie Scott (Ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos; one of world’s largest philanthropists)
• Protestors in Iran
• Ron DeSantis (Florida Governor; likely to run for President as a Republican)
• Gun Safety Advocates
• Janet Yellen (U.S. Treasurer; former Federal Reserve Chair Woman)
• Liz Cheney (Neo-Conservative and Republican Representative from Wyoming; heading the January 6th Committee)

SEE: More Ukrainians Expose The Fake War: Ukrainian Army Is Murdering Its Own, As Nazi Groups Knowingly Kill Children

In a post explaining why Time selected Zelensky, they wrote:

This year’s choice was the most clear-cut in memory. Whether the battle for Ukraine fills one with hope or with fear, Volodymyr Zelensky galvanized the world in a way we haven’t seen in decades.

In the weeks after Russian bombs began falling on Feb. 24, his decision not to flee Kyiv but to stay and rally support was fateful. From his first 40-second Instagram post on Feb. 25—showing that his Cabinet and civil society were intact and in place—to daily speeches delivered remotely to the likes of houses of Parliament, the World Bank, and the Grammy Awards, Ukraine’s President was everywhere.

His information offensive shifted the geopolitical weather system, setting off a wave of action that swept the globe.

Zelensky has been laser-focused on keeping the world’s eyes on Ukraine. The former entertainer understood innately that attention is the planet’s most valuable currency and all but cornered the global market. He did this through meticulous image-building and repetition in his message. He was blunt, sometimes sarcastic, and always directly to the point: we must save Ukraine to save democracy.

In an alternate reality where someone else had been leading Ukraine, there might or might not be a Russian flag flying over the parliament building in Kyiv. There would almost certainly still be a McDonald’s near Moscow’s Red Square, that symbol of post-Cold War globalization. Zelensky’s command of the weapons of the digital age meant that business leaders and politicians everywhere were forced to take notice and take a stand, whether they liked it or not.

SEE: Dutch Journalist In Donbass Exposes More Of The Total Lies In The Media About The Conflict In Ukraine & Ukrainian From The Heart Of Donetsk Exposes The Lies About The Russia-Ukraine Conflict

In a much more detailed piece, Zelensky recounted the conflict with Russia this year, and Time briefly wrote about his childhood and a myriad of other things, creating storybook character vibes.

Here are some excerpts of what Time wrote of Zelensky:

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The first explosion sounded a few minutes later. Everyone froze, looking up at the sky for a shell to come arcing down. Then came another boom, which sounded closer than the first. Someone suggested it was outgoing artillery fire, though this seemed more like an optimistic guess. The Russians had retreated to the left bank of the Dnipro River, about a mile away. The blasts continued to sound, but Zelensky did not seem bothered by them. He declined, as usual, to wear a helmet or bulletproof vest.

At the edge of the square [in Kherson], the soldiers had installed a Starlink Internet terminal, plugging its satellite antenna into a diesel generator. The President took out his phone and asked for the wi-fi password. Most of the people around him were armed with assault rifles, but this was his weapon, a late-model iPhone that Zelensky has used to wage the biggest land war of the information age. His skill at addressing the world through that phone—in his nightly speeches on social media, in his endless calls with foreign leaders and supporters—has been as critical as the number of tanks in his army.

Zelensky has dialed into the World Economic Forum in Davos and the NATO summit in Madrid. He has granted interviews to talk-show hosts and journalists and held live chats with students at Stanford, Harvard, and Yale. He has leveraged the fame of entertainment superstars to amplify his calls for international support. Jessica Chastain and Ben Stiller visited his fortified compound. Liev Schreiber agreed to become an ambassador for Ukraine’s official fundraising platform. Sean Penn brought an Oscar statuette to Kyiv and left it with Zelensky. Once, the President allowed a team of technicians to create a 3D hologram of his likeness, which was later projected at conferences around Europe. “Our principle is simple,” says Andriy Yermak, the President’s chief of staff. “If we fall out of focus, we are in danger.” The attention of the world serves as a shield.

SEE: Zelensky And Ukraine Showcase New Hologram Technology. Promotes The Digitalization Of Everything Including Vaccine Passports And Metaverse

The effect has been a kind of virtual omnipresence that has at times grown tedious for some of Zelensky’s own citizens. “We’re always looking for new formats,” says Kyrylo Tymoshenko, the presidential adviser who oversees the TV marathon beaming Zelensky’s message into Ukrainian homes. “But sooner or later people get tired of the flood of news.” And they have started tuning out.

There wasn’t much in Zelensky’s biography to predict his willingness to stand and fight. He had never served in the military or shown much interest in its affairs. He had only been President since April 2019. His professional instincts derived from a lifetime as an actor on the stage, a specialist in improv comedy, and a producer in the movie business.

That experience turned out to have its advantages. Zelensky was adaptable, trained not to lose his nerve under pressure. He knew how to read a crowd and react to its moods and expectations. Now his audience was the world. He was determined not to let them down. His decision to stay at the compound in the face of possible assassination set an example, making it more difficult for his underlings to cut and run. “Anyone who left is a traitor,” Ruslan Stefanchuk, the speaker of Ukraine’s parliament, told its members a few hours after the invasion started.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.

Proverbs 29:12

Surely I am not the only one that laughed out loud when Time praised Zelensky for his “meticulous image-building and repetition in his message?” Oh, you mean like every good propagandist that’s ever lived? The WinePress covered these very basic Propaganda 101 tactics before in different reports: “6 Key Tenets Of Propaganda According To One Of The Masters Of It”

Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels said it best:

But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in the mind constantly and unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often is this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.

The purpose of propaganda is not to provide interesting distraction for blasé young gentlemen, but to convince, and what I mean is to convince the masses. But the masses are slow-moving, and they always require a certain time before they are even ready to notice a thing, and only after the simplest ideas are repeated thousands of times will the masses finally remember them.

At first the claims of the propaganda were so impudent that people thought it insane; later, it got on people’s nerves; and in the end, it was believed.

Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.

Joseph Goebbels said

Indeed, Zelensky certainly has been well-trained for this.

Zelensky was not just any ole actor and comedian: he played the starring role in a show he also directed, where he was the President of Ukraine. This fake propaganda war is just latest season of this show, live-action edition, with his Person of the Year recognition bringing in a finale to this year’s season, ending with cliffhangers for the next action-packed season!

Here are some of his other highlights:

https://youtu.be/2-UiadUOrfk

https://youtu.be/kgOSrw9Q8rc

Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.

1 Corinthians 15:33

Regulars of this site know that The WinePress has been exposing the propaganda and lies about this “war” since day one: it is faker than a Beyond Meat plant-based patty!

Zelensky and Ukrainian officials have routinely praised Neo-Nazi groups in the country – who are the REAL source of most of the problems; who are the ones murdering and terrorizing their own people, and with the aid of the actual military using their own people as living shields to prevent more lethal and faster Russian advances; as Russia was already dealing with Ukraine for years but has now decided to “de-Nazify” Ukraine due to all the trouble they caused Russia, along with Ukraine being a proxy and an expendable country for NATO and the U.S. to illegally encroach near Russia’s turf.

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Ukraine Army Commander-In-Chief Poses With Nazi Swastika Bracelet

Zelensky Praises Neo-Nazi Asov Battalion Soldiers Who Kill Their Own People

And lest anyone try to convince you: no, he is NOT the antichrist.

Foolish “Christians” Are Now Claiming That Ukrainian President Zelensky Is The Antichrist

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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