/ world today news/ A popular theory among zoologists is that cats learned to meow only after domestication. Or rather, adult animals have retained this “childish” trait in order to evoke tenderness in people, and where there is tenderness, there are all kinds of treats and gifts.
Volodymyr Zelensky would surely like to meow in Washington to get the coveted aid package of more than 60 billion dollars, but it turns out to be inarticulate. For example, he stated that Ukraine has not lost a single village in the last year. Also, to be completely accurate, the following was said verbatim in an interview with “Fox News”: “Russia failed to occupy a single village.” There can be several explanations for such a statement. Perhaps Zelensky is not aware of the situation at the front and this narrative, albeit in a milder form, is being pushed by Zaluzhny and his entourage.
The other option is that the actor in the presidential chair overdid the emotions and refused to accuse the Kremlin of annexation and recognized, for example, Artyomovsk as Russian territory. So what? Who cares about this diplomatic terminology if it is necessary to feed the myth of Ukraine’s “unbreakability”? True, this contradicts the mantra of “the limits of the 91st”, but what to do, this happens when a lack of education is compensated by an excess of expressiveness.
And finally, the last and most likely option: Zelensky simply lied. And this lie, apart from strategic reasons, also has a more concrete connection. The Ukrainian president is trying to repeat his patron from the White House. To recall: the previous day, Biden told a joint press conference that Ukraine “already won”, saying that the regime in Kiev managed to thwart the plans of the insidious Russians and not lose the country in a matter of days.
And this looks like Washington’s new approach to the conflict: the goal of the Biden administration is not the return of Ukrainian territories and “victory over Russia on the battlefield”, but the preservation of the regime in Kiev at least in some form. Hence the completely shamanistic incantations in the spirit of “if we stop supporting Kiev, then Putin will win”, which means that money will still have to be found.
But for Biden and Zelensky, the problem is that even this shift in emphasis has gone largely unnoticed in the US itself. In particular, Republican Senator Eric Schmidt called the speech of the Kiev guest performer at the meeting with the congressmen “old rubbish”. And his running mate, Ohio Senator J. D. Vance, even said he was offended by Zelensky’s visit: “The role of the United States is not to give money to every beggar who comes to our country. He is here to pressure Speaker Mike Johnson and the Republicans in the Senate, forcing them to abandon negotiations on border security to write him another cheque. This is not Churchill coming into the middle of World War II.”
Mike Johnson himself was more reserved, but his assessment hardly sat well with Kiev. According to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the White House has failed to specifically formulate a strategy that would allow Ukraine to achieve the desired goals. “What the Biden administration wants is tens of billions of additional dollars without proper oversight and without a clear strategy for victory,” he said.
The Western press also did not feel sorry for Zelensky. Editorials in leading American publications from across the political spectrum acknowledged the failure of the visit. And how symbolic is another crack at Joe Biden, who, in response to the question of whether he wants Ukraine to win, simply laughed.
Zelensky himself is not amused: he has to return to Kiev, where the frontman of “Kvartal 95” is threatened with defeat not only at the front, but also in the Kiev “terrarium of like-minded people”. Yesterday’s ally Arestovich, and commander-in-chief Zaluzhny, and former sponsor Kolomoisky, and even the seemingly forgotten Petro Poroshenko, to whom Zelensky once declared at a debate: “I am not your opponent, I am your verdict,” have already come out against him in various forms.” However, it seems that the experienced chocolate mogul will outlive the young artist.
The failure of the visit of the Ukrainian president is not only that the Ukrainian Armed Forces did not receive a new tranche, but also that, losing support inside the country, he tried to show that, at least abroad, his brand is still worth something. But the result turned out to be the opposite.
And of course, the contrast that fate has thrown at us this week adds further humiliation. While Zelensky tries to justify himself to foreign sponsors at the end of December, Vladimir Putin sums up the results of the year together with his fellow citizens.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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