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Sean Penn has found a new heart with the support of Ukraine. In the early days of the invasion by Russian forces, he was still in the capital, Kyiv, before fleeing the advancing troops across the Polish border. As early as November 2021, the pugnacious actor and director was working on his documentary film project about the escalation of the conflict in the eastern Donbas region.
He now makes a series of TV appearances to promote support for Volodymyr Zelensky in the United States. Speaking on MSNBC’s talk format “The Last Word With Lawrence O’Donnell,” he implored that Ukraine “is going to win this thing…that’s a certainty.”
He referred to the attitude of the population and added: “A dramatic moment in history … They look at each other as if to say: We stand together!” Recently, Penn had threatened before the Oscars with his own Oscars “melt down” if Zelenskij were not switched on at the gala.
According to Penn, the president and Ukraine’s desire for unity is also a role model for the United States to overcome the division that has been rampant for decades. “It’s a freedom of thought combined with genuine leadership that touches me. A movement that we also need in the USA. We are in the process of becoming a populist imitation of a nation.” Ukraine, on the other hand, for all its diversity, has a unity “like we haven’t seen in recent times.”
He also debated the war with host Sean Hannity on the Fox News program Hannity. “It is clear to me that the Ukrainians will win the war. The only question is, at what price!?” And again there was an almost effusive praise for Zelenskij: “I saw something in him that I had never seen before.”
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