For weeks now, we have been told repeatedly that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenski had a “secret plan for victory” over Russia that he would unveil by the end of the month. That finally happened this week, with Zelensky launching a “charm tour” across a variety of stops, primarily in the United States, seeking to gain the full support of American leaders (and potential leaders) to achieve his nation’s ambitious goals. But what he actually managed to achieve appeared to be more of a crash course in the finer details of divisive American politics while taking a sledgehammer-style approach to a delicate situation that one Ukrainian foreign policy analyst described as being “a big mistake.” Zelensky wound up poking his nose into American party politics and making demands that even those most likely to support his requests edged away from carefully. (BBC)
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