If these Communists and NAZIs, running the government, excelled at growing an economy and protecting citizen's FREEDOM, as well as they destroy an economy and remove citizen's FREEDOM, you might have a standing Republic, instead of a standing BANANA REPUBLIC.

Maybe Zelensky is recruiting the mentally ill, who had sex change operations and now identify as a female, so they will still have the physical strength needed in battle from their XY Chromosomes they were born with.