Ukrainian president Zelensky is the new hero of the chattering class in the West, although they will probably get bored with him if the war drags on, and move on to the next big thing. I have in mind a YouTube clip, where ex-Beatle Paul McCartney began an American concert, by coming out on stage with the Ukraine flag, waving it around. I guess he did not sing the Beatle’s song, Back in the USSR!
Anyway, back to Zelensky. According to the Wall Street Journal, just days before the “Special Military Operations” in Ukraine on February 24, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz offered the Ukrainian leader a brokered peace deal. Zelensky rejected this, and the war occurred. The Wall Street Journal noted: “For nearly two decades, the U.S. and the European Union vacillated over how to deal with the Russian leader as he resorted to increasingly aggressive steps to reassert Moscow’s dominion over Ukraine and other former Soviet republics.