Consider these three headlines together. The first headline is from CNN, this morning: “Zelensky to make urgent in-person plea to Biden and Harris as Ukraine braces for possibility of a Trump presidency.”
The second headline is also from CNN, yesterday: “Putin issues nuclear warning to the West over strikes on Russia from Ukraine.”
Third, from the Wall Street Journal, yesterday: “U.S. ‘Unimpressed’ With Ukraine’s Victory Plan Ahead of Biden-Zelensky Meeting.”
Volodymyr Zelensky is Ukraine’s former president and now its unelected Martial Law Coordinator, a position invented in real time out of necessity after Zelensky’s term ended without holding new elections. Corporate media still calls him the “president,” since he wields the powers of a president, but that title is not even close to accurate.
With U.S. elections looming, and uncomfortable questions about Zelensky’s authority cropping up like spring Ukrainian sunflowers, Curruptocrat Zelensky quickly developed a secret “Victory Plan” that he plans to present to President Cabbage today in Washington.
But Ukraine is a leaky ship of state, and anonymous bureaucrats are telling eager reporters what to expect. In addition to lots more money and more weapons, Zelensky’s amazing Victory Plan is expected to rest on two main prongs.
First, he wants the United States’ help in targeting Russian cities with U.S.-supplied and U.S.-directed missiles. This, Zelensky apparently believes, will tree the Russian Bear. Zelensky thinks the Russian people are weak-minded and cowardly and, if they are subjected to devastating missile attacks, they’ll overthrow the evil dictator Putin and peace will descend on Europe like a dove.
In other words, Zelensky expects the Russians to defeat Russia.
Of course, Russia could also respond by bombing Kiev into a smoking ash heap, which it has patiently resisted doing for almost three years now. Despite Ukraine relentlessly trying to bomb Russia’s Crimean bridge, Russia has also held back from taking out Ukraine’s six bridges across the massive Dnieper river, which bisects the country. That operation would probably only take an hour.
So the plan also includes a second, defensive prong. Zelensky reportedly also wants immediate NATO membership, to protect Ukraine from Russian retribution for strikes on its civilian centers. Russia, Zelensky thinks, won’t risk a war with NATO, which would be required to directly intervene for Ukraine if it were a member.
In other words, Zelensky sees Israel’s deal and wants the same thing for Ukraine.
But Ukraine is not Israel. Nor is Russia comparable to Hezbollah and Hamas. And yesterday, the escalatory ladder extended more when President Putin announced changes to Russia’s nuclear doctrine that would allow a thermonuclear response to any massive missile or drone attack against Russian cities. He also said if a nuclear state helps Ukraine, it would be considered a “joint attack” against Russia. CNN:
This, presumably, is at least one reason why the Wall Street Journal said U.S. officials “aren’t impressed” with Zelenksy’s idiotic victory plan. Specifically, Zelensky’s scheme only amounts to escalation without any actual plan for, well, victory:
It feels like a tough time to be escalating conflict with Russia. Between pager bombs and thousands of strikes on Lebanon, we’ve watched the Middle East theater heating up. Earlier this week, the New York Times ran a story headlined, “Pentagon to Send More U.S. Troops to Middle East as Tensions Rise.”
So.
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