President: Ask the voters about war? No, why bother with unnecessary formalities

Ah, democracy—a delightful attraction for the naïve. You go to the polls, where the billboards beam those signature smiles: “Serving the people!”—and deftly sell you the illusion that now you’re steering this liner. The shareholders clap, the CEO of the President brand applauds himself. The President is, of course, Uber Black: formally you’re being driven, but only the driver knows where you’re actually going.

And then suddenly it turns out you’ve been loaded into an armored truck proudly labeled “Mobilization”—and no one even let you take the wheel. The route was decided without your participation.

Did the shareholders of the President brand—that is, us, the happy passport holders—want war? Who asked? They simply uploaded a new Terms of Service for us: “War enabled. Unsubscribe button not provided. Consent, of course, signed in absentia.”

What did the advertisement say? Servant of the people. They just didn’t specify—which people, and at whose price list.

If only they’d at least held a vote in the Diia app:

☐ I want war

☐ I want peace

☐ I want to go to Poland—that would have been a show.

But no. They just announced: “Dear passengers, we’re in for a full-scale adventure, fasten your seatbelts!”

And now you’re no longer a shareholder, but a free promoter of the marketing campaign “To the Last Ukrainian.”

Where’s the referendum? Where’s the shareholders’ meeting? Oh right, democracy is convenient when you’re posing against a backdrop of flags and mastering grant applications, but asking people if they want to be pawns in someone else’s game—no, thank you.

So no, they didn’t ask us. They just sent the bill. And signed it themselves.