If Zelensky is lucky, he’ll live out his days in one of his mansions. From Martin Jay at strategic-culture.su:
How much longer can he keep the farce up that Ukraine is a real contender in the war and has a reasonable chance of winning?
Ukraine’s President Zelensky probably didn’t have much of a Christmas nor new year celebrations. What’s there to celebrate? After coming back from Washington just a couple of weeks before with a cheque of just 200 million dollars, rather than the 50 bn which he was hoping for, he must have done some hard thinking over the Christmas period. How much longer has he got as president? How much longer can he keep the farce up that Ukraine is a real contender in the war and has a reasonable chance of winning? In Ukraine itself, few believe the war can be won under the present circumstances of being desperately low on both military kit and soldiers. Even his own commander in chief often despairs of the situation and criticizes his boss, with a number of now ex advisors who are happy to run down Zelensky. “Deluded” is the word which keeps coming up. They claim he is the only one who believes now that the war is still a viable option and that victory is still something which can be aimed for.
And so it comes as no surprise that he turns to his only friends left in the world to help him: western media. This press pack has invested so much in a narrative which supports Ukraine and demonises Russia without even a glance at the facts that it shouldn’t have been a surprise to see The Economist – the high-brow economics magazine which is so pro-EU that Brussels uses it as a mouthpiece for its own failed policies – stepping up to the mark. And then there was the follow-up interview from Britain’s own arse wipe tabloid The Sun, whose journalist didn’t disappoint with so many NATO talking points in his copy that you might be mistaken in believing that it was written by NATO’s own press people. Where, for the love of God, do they find journalists like Jerome Starkey who, bless, probably believes that 600,000 people have died in Ukraine, “with most of them being Russian soldiers”. Hilarious.
But the Economist piece, which allowed Zelensky to continue the theme of Putin being a savage leader who, red in tooth and claw, was a madman who was going to invade European countries and eat all our children was hard to take seriously. Apart from anything else, it clashes with Joe Biden’s own line which is that Putin is down and out and has “lost” the Ukraine war. Can they have it both ways? Does this suggest that Zelensky’s media team are no longer even communicating with the White House?
Uncle Sam should be renamed Uncle Schlomo’s mark!