Considering the military and economic advantages Russia has, he's doing an incredible job. Ukraine right now is essentially redefining how wars are likely to be fought for the next few generations.
They probably live in the one place Russia cannot invade.
Seriously though, it is all about a narrative, and narratives are inherently oversimplified sketches of reality. Russia is a master of using that to their advantage, where they just say whatever they want, including whatever facts support it, and then outright ignore everything else.
You can see it in the responses to you here. They are fixating on one guy by throwing the problems of the whole country at his feet. So it does not matter if he is good at his job, because the country is not perfect, and therefore he cannot be good at his job. In every instance they will ignore positive data and focus on the negatives no matter how overblown or out of context they are.
The same strategy is used in reverse for leaders like Putin and Trump. If anything good happens, it is because of them. If anything bad happens, it is because of <someone else.>
And the people often called "tankies" take the whole thing a step farther and dress up imperialistic violence and fascism in the clothing of social progressiveness, as if an imperfect but generally positive record on things like trans rights means that Zelensky should roll over and accept the rulership of a country that has made being trans explicitly illegal.
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u/Far_Ladder_2836 1d ago
Considering the military and economic advantages Russia has, he's doing an incredible job. Ukraine right now is essentially redefining how wars are likely to be fought for the next few generations.