Volodymyr Zelenskiy does not stop. After meeting Draghi-Macron-Scholz he appeared as a jedi in hologram format for his appeal to the West.
In front of an audience of several hundred people who attended the VivaTech fair in Paris, the Ukrainian president, who appeared in his usual casual military outfit, but with a Star Wars T-shirt with the words “come to the dark side”, come to the dark side (of the Force)addressed the companies present to say that they had a unique opportunity before them: to guarantee the reconstruction of Ukraine thanks to digital technology.
He then asked for relief in the form of a kind of Marshall Plan: how the United States helped allies during World War II by offering aid without asking for immediate payment back, it was now up to them to guarantee. a new “digital democracy” in Ukraine, providing infrastructure with the understanding that the hardware would be returned.
He then continued: “It is unusual for presidents or heads of government to use a hologram to address people, but this is not the only aspect of Star Wars that we are putting into practice ». And he continued: «We will also defeat the empire», comparing the Russian forces to the enemy in Star Wars.
Then Zelensky moved on to explain that his government is setting up a “digital government”, which he will present at a conference in Switzerland in the coming weeks. Addressing companies, he insisted: “No other country in the world will offer you such a chance to use the most advanced technologies at the state level. It is an experiment and a digital revolution ».
Ukraine immediately exploited the technology after the invasion of Russia, using not only drones in the field, but also crypto communities to raise funds. The appeal to Elon Musk to provide broadband for satellite Internet has workedand Zelensky invited the multimillionaire founder of Tesla and Space X to visit Ukraine at the end of the war.
Source: Vanity Fair
