Zelensky: Thanks America, But You're Really Letting Us Down

I do enjoy him doing what all foreign leaders do, which is disrespecting Biden.

Byron York @ByronYork

Zelensky is apparently prepared to tell Congress that whatever the US has given Ukraine -- $45 billion in new aid now under consideration -- it is not enough. From
@AP Link

Rebeccah Heinrichs @RLHeinrichs

The problem isn’t the amount of money. The problem is that the Biden admin continues to withhold certain kinds of weapons that Ukraine needs. The Biden WH is obscuring this fact by touting the number.

In a speech before Congress, Zelensky did in fact say thanks, but you must do more for my cause.

So, so, here the front line, the tyranny which has no lack of cruelty against the lives of free people -- and your support is crucial, not just to stand in such fight but to get to the turning point to win on the battlefield.

We have artillery, yes. Thank you. We have it. Is it enough? Honestly, not really. To ensure Bakhmut is not just a stronghold that holds back the Russian Army, but for the Russian Army to completely pull out, more cannons and shells are needed. If so, just like the Battle of Saratoga, the fight for Bakhmut will change the trajectory of our war for independence and for freedom.

If your Patriots stop the Russian terror against our cities, it will let Ukrainian patriots work to the full to defend our freedom. When Russia -- when Russia cannot reach our cities by its artillery, it tries to destroy them with missile attacks. More than that, Russia found an ally in this -- in this genocidal policy: Iran. Iranian deadly drones sent to Russia in hundreds -- in hundreds became a threat to our critical infrastructure. That is how one terrorist has found the other.

It is just a matter of time when they will strike against your other allies if we do not stop them now. We must do it.

The idea that Russia, bogged-down in Ukraine, is going to strike "our other allies," is as plausible as the US deciding to take out Iran while it was bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I don't begrudge him his rhetoric for his own cause. But this is total horseshit, and we shouldn't be afraid to say so. Even if it is the "kind of thing Russia would want to say," as Jim Geraghty's new formulation for Russian Disinformation has it. (See Sidebar.)

Zelensky thinks that his own country is important enough to fight for. I wish that Mitch McConnell and National Review equally believed their own country was important enough to fight for.

posted by Ace at 12:05 PM

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