Zelensky’s Groveling Hits the DC Uniparty’s Sweet Spot

Many have compared the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Winston Churchill. The comedian-turned-politician is not the avatar of democracy that his legion of American admirers think he is, let alone this generation’s savior of Western civilization. But it’s doubtful that Churchill’s star addresses to joint sessions of Congress during the Second World War were received with any less adulation than Zelensky’s speech in the week before Christmas.

The question of whether it was appropriate for Zelensky to appear on the podium of the House in a variant of the GI Joe costume he’s been sporting on Zoom appearances throughout the year misses the point. This may have been his first foreign leader to act in this manner since Yasser Arafat, a terrorist from the Palestinian Liberation Organization, arrived at the White House in 1993 in a military uniform to sign an agreement with Israel. He never intended to keep it. For a man who knows his duty is to play the hero at every opportunity, it was just how it was.

It was interesting to note that most Republican congressional leaders seemed just as excited to mock the Ukrainian leader as the Democrats.

Many Americans sympathize with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brutal and flagrantly illegal invasion of Ukraine. The notion that “Providing assistance for Ukrainians to defeat the Russians is the number one priority for the United States,” Mitch McConnell, Minority Leader put It’s quite another. The same can be said for doubling the amount of money the United States was spending on Afghanistan in its last years for this war’s first year.

This is what the ruling class believes.

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