Jesse ventura: volodimir zolenski is a really good war time speechmaker. He gets up there and he says things that are compelling, often kindef ses them off the cuff. There's a video of him in the streets of kiev after the russian medio was like, wel, he's fled. The fact that ukraine is in the midst of this invasion from a larger world power makes us naturally sort of sympathetic to him.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy went from a middling peacetime president to a heroic wartime president. Kyiv Independent’s Oleksiy Sorokin explains from an undisclosed location in western Ukraine. Vox’s Emily VanDerWerff also explains, but from her home in Los Angeles.
This episode was produced by Will Reid, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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