Ukraine Can Teach Us Much About Leadership, Patriotism
By Larry Bell
Monday, 28 February 2022 11:10 AM
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In early morning hours of February 25, as massive Russian ground and air invasion forces closed in on his Kyiv capital, a former stand-up comic and sitcom actor who had portrayed a schoolteacher turned president demonstrated a stirring real-life example of leadership and heroism that the best fiction can only hope to emulate.
Dressed in a khaki T-shirt and fatigues, 44-year-old Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy posted a starkly serious and vitally inspirational cellphone video message to a besieged Ukraine populace: “We aren’t afraid of anything.”
“We aren’t afraid to defend our country,” he said. “We aren’t afraid of Russia.”
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President Zelenskyy, who according to Ukrainian and Western officials topped Moscow’s kill-or-capture list, had declined a U.S. offer to help him flee his country....
Zelenskyyy had told the American Embassy: "The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride."
Whether such responses will ultimately prove to be too little, too late for Ukraine remains to be seen, but one thing is certain. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s courageous leadership in rallying his small nation’s patriotic reprisals against a powerful aggressor offers renewed testimony that freedom from tyranny is worth fighting for.____________