According to Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), the US intends to launch a campaign to undermine Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in order to replace him with a more malleable person. According to the agency, former Interior Minister Arsen Avakov is being considered for the job.

In a statement released on Tuesday, the SVR stated that “the American elite” is becoming increasingly unhappy with Zelensky as politicians on both sides of the aisle begin to “doubt the targeted spending of billions of dollars in military aid to Kiev.”

Officials stated that Zelensky is engaging in “crazy steps” that threaten escalation “far beyond Ukraine,” adding that Kiev “has moved to feverish action” as Zelensky tries to stay in power after the end of his official term in May.

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      I love this community - time and again lemmings in here manage to remember all those times the USA has been acting funky and your neighbours next door just forgot about it for some reason due to brainwashing.

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        I could be wrong/misremembering/confabulating but I remember reading that at one point, when Gaddafi was first starting out, the U.S. government may have been ambivalent towards him or started/considered the process of grooming him into an asset, until Gaddafi broke away.

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      I mean they just supported some new puppet for Venezuela, so Guaido is available now.

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      There is nobody with more experience at being president of a wide array of countries!

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    Country known for foreign interventions and overthrowing heads of state is going to overthrow a head of state. Big shock.

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    I don’t know if I trust the Russian CIA. At this point it doesn’t matter who is the president. The country is in rubbles, US just waits for a convenient excuse to end the war in order to introduce shock therapy 2.0.

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      And what better way to make a clean break with the past than by pinning all the failures on Zelensky and pushing him out?

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      This just gives me a mental image of an insane ER doctor placing defibrillator pads on a recently deceased person and repeatedly delivering shocks even when the corpse gives no response and only pops up and down from the electrical jolts. The nurses are all crying and yelling that he’s gone. The doctor just keeps smirking and pushing the button while the skin sizzles. And the smell…

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    undermine Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in order to replace him with a more malleable person

    More malleable? If he was any more malleable he’d be silly putty. How much more malleable could they want?

    Officials stated that Zelensky is engaging in “crazy steps” that threaten escalation “far beyond Ukraine,”

    Yeah that seems to be a feature, not a bug of this little program

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      Apparently Biden’s dementia-riddled evil mind thinks that 5 blowjobs a day from Zelenskyy isn’t enough

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    replace him with a more malleable person

    Even more malleable? That would have to be a literal jellyfish.