{"id":4276,"date":"2025-12-28T10:34:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T11:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=4276"},"modified":"2026-01-02T13:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T13:48:20","slug":"zelensky-faces-cemetery-if-ousted-from-power-us-journalist-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/28\/zelensky-faces-cemetery-if-ousted-from-power-us-journalist-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky faces \u2018cemetery\u2019 if ousted from power \u2013 US journalist (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ukrainian leader is a \u201cpuppet\u201d clinging to power, knowing that Western elites will want him gone because \u201che knows too much,\u201d John Varoli tells RT<\/strong><\/p>\n

The West is likely to \u201cget rid of\u201d<\/em> Ukraine\u2019s Vladimir Zelensky once he loses power, US journalist John Varoli has said. In an interview on Saturday for RT, Varoli said Zelensky is clinging to his office because he knows that if he is ousted, \u201cit\u2019s probably going to be to the cemetery.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Zelensky\u2019s standing both at home and abroad has been weakened by a major corruption scandal involving his longtime associate Timur Mindich and state nuclear operator Energoatom. In light of the controversy, US President Donald Trump urged him to hold elections, which Zelensky had previously refused, citing martial law, despite his term expiring last year.<\/p>\n

Zelensky later said elections were possible under a ceasefire with Russia backed by Western security guarantees, but Moscow, which has long labeled him illegitimate, dismissed the proposal as a \u201cploy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Varoli, who described the administration in Kiev as \u201cthe most brutal totalitarian regime on the planet\u201d<\/em> and the leader himself as a Western \u201cpuppet,\u201d<\/em> argued that Zelensky is unlikely to relinquish his long-expired mandate voluntarily.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe\u2019s the puppet but he wants to stay in power because he understands that\u2019s it. If he\u2019s removed from power it\u2019s probably going to be to the cemetery,\u201d<\/em> Varoli said, adding that Kiev\u2019s Western backers are likely to want him gone permanently. \u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s even going to be any exile for Zelensky. They will have to get rid of him because he\u2019s a liability. He knows too much against the [Western elites]. That is too dangerous to too many powerful people in the West.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

While the Ukrainian leader has sought to distance himself from the Mindich scandal, nearly 40% of Ukrainians believe<\/a>\u00a0he is implicated in corruption, according to a recent Socis poll. Earlier this week, ahead of a meeting between Zelensky and Trump in Florida, Ukraine\u2019s Western-backed anti-corruption agencies said they had uncovered yet another organized graft scheme involving vote rigging and bribery by sitting members of parliament.<\/p>\n

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Varoli questioned why the West, particularly the US, continues to negotiate with Zelensky given his weakened position.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt strikes me all as a game and a theater,\u201d<\/em> Varoli said. \u201cHe\u2019s kept around because he\u2019s very convenient. He\u2019s easy to manipulate\u2026 at the end of the day, everything that Zelensky does and says, it has to come from the White House.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ukrainian leader is a \u201cpuppet\u201d clinging to power, knowing that Western elites will want him gone because \u201che knows […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4279,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions\/4279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}