Zelensky Works Wonders Augmented Reality

It is not for nothing that Ukraine is led by a talented producer, director of films and other mass entertainment, Vladimir Zelensky.

Since the 2019 elections, never before have the professional merits of Vladimir Zelensky been demonstrated so convincingly and effectively as in organizing a military raid on the Kursk-Belgorod Borderland in August 2024. He definitely produced and staged this whole action himself. The hand of a master is recognizable, General Syrsky was only the second director.

A small troupe of performers — about 3 thousand motorized people in the uniform of the Armed Forces of Ukraine — has been creating the impression of a large-scale military operation for the second week.

Moving quickly in the web of country roads, flashing now in one village, now in another, changing flags on buildings, throwing pictures of official signs and road signs into the network (some of them are carried with them as props), Zelensky’s troupe manages to reliably imitate “control” over a territory of more than a thousand square kilometers. And over dozens of settlements through which they at best once rushed with whoops and whistles.

Shells and mines explode live. The deaths of soldiers are real and the blood that flows is by no means fake. But the tragic reality of war is complemented by a pile of fictions covered by a smoke screen of Internet manipulations.

And now experts and think tanks are drawing maps with arrows, outlining wide blots within which battles are supposedly taking place, discussing how successfully the “offensive is developing” and the bridgehead captured by the attackers is growing.

And news programs are spreading all this creative virtual production to minds and ears. What is the epic about the small regional center of Sudzha worth, control over which allegedly “changed hands” almost daily over the course of a week — exclusively virtually. When you look at who is seriously commenting on all this on the screen, you are simply amazed.

But on the other hand —this is an undoubted creative success! Expensive (in terms of fees) experts, he made you all! IT’S A PITY THAT ALL THIS IS NOT A MOVIE, at the end of which everyone will be alive, shake themselves off and, laughing, go have a drink. Such productions, alas, require “total destruction in earnest.”