Anything to keep the fantasy going. It’s not all Zelensky, either. NATO is doing its share of wet dreaming. From Chay Bowes at azerbaycan24.com:
Ukraine’s President Vladimir Zelensky is standing next to a Danish F-16 fighter jet in a tent at the Skrydstrup Airbase in Vojens on August 20, 2023. © Handout / UKRAINIAN PRESIDENTIAL PRESS SERVICE / AFP
As the Western establishment media begrudgingly accepts, what many analysts have long predicted – that Kiev’s counteroffensive is a catastrophic failure – it seems that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky hasn’t gotten the memo.
He seems adamant that the mercurial F-16 fighter jet is the missing link required to spur his depleted military to victory against Russia. There is, however, a little problem with his thesis – there’s more than one, actually, but let’s start with the most obvious.
Even as Ukraine’s long-awaited, much-hyped, but now obviously failed counteroffensive grinds to a bloody and costly halt, it seems the pro-war enthusiasts in the West and their proxies in Kiev still believe that the F-16, an American fighter jet that first took to the skies nearly 50 years ago, can somehow save the day for Zelensky and his NATO handlers. But at the same time trouble seems to be brewing in paradise as the Western media, which has thus far played such a pivotal role in overhyping Kiev’s military capabilities, is now less than convinced that this aging American castoff can play anything close to a defining role in NATO’s stalling proxy war against Russia.
