Arguing that reform can be more difficult than revolution, Alexader Motyl, the Rutgers political scientist, takes a bleak view of Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chances of becoming a successful reformer.

Arguing that reform can be more difficult than revolution, Alexader Motyl, the Rutgers political scientist, takes a bleak view of Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chances of becoming a successful reformer. “Reformers need to have something like a blueprint detailing how they expect to get from point A to point B and from point B to point C,” Motyl writes for the Atlantic Council. “He obviously has no intimate knowledge of Ukraine’s existing system of institutions. Nor does he understand how government institutions work,” he writes of the leading presidential candidate in opinion polls leading to the March 31 election. “Zelenskiy’s chances of being any kind of reformer are nil.”