Is Volodymyr Zelensky still the most dangerous leader in the world?

After 31 months, one might assume Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would get tired of ginning up nuclear war between the US and Russia. But no. For the entire US proxy war against Russia, being fought almost entirely within Ukraine, Zelensky has been demanding the US provide him with the weaponry to attack deep into Russia.

 

At the start of America’s proxy war, President Biden pledged unlimited billions in weaponry to allow Ukraine to repel the Russian incursion, inflicting a proxy victory over our hated enemy Russia. Biden stressed two requirements: Ukrainians had to do all the dying. Second, Ukraine could not use US weapons to attack deep into Russia. He specifically said such action could precipitate nuclear war.

 

But in giving Ukraine long range missiles with restrictions on their use, Biden finds himself with a proxy war client bent on taking the war deep into Russia. Ukraine is now near collapse from military, economic and demographic devastation in a senseless war the US provoked over NATO expansion. Zelensky should have negotiated a peace treaty early on that would not have cost Ukraine any territory and would have ended its civil war in the Donbas.

 

Instead, Zelensky maintains a delusional belief he can prevail if only Biden greenlights extended use of those long range missiles and F-16 fighters. He reiterated this August 31st: “We talk about this every day with our partners. We persuade. We present arguments. “We need the capabilities to truly and fully protect Ukraine and Ukrainians. We need both the permissions for doing long-range capabilities and your long-range shells and missiles.”

 

When Zelensky foolishly attacked inside Russia’s lightly defended Kursk region with US tanks and shells, Zelensky claimed Russia’s lack of response against NATO proved he was a paper tiger who has no Red Lines that would provoke such response. But Russia does not see the self-destructive Ukraine Kursk incursion as an existential treat. They merely took out their anger with devastating attacks against Ukrainian infrastructure and gobbling up more Ukrainian territory in the Donbas where Ukraine will eventually lose.

 

Early in the war Zelensky claimed an errant Ukrainian missile that fell into NATO Poland, killing two Poles, was a Russian missile that required immediate NATO response against Russia. NATO quickly realized Zelensky’s reckless gambit and demurred.

 

Alas, Zelensky should stick to his previous gig as a comedian. As a president and war commander, he has one trump card left to stave off inevitable defeat….goad the US into war with Russia.

 

When the Biden or next administration, whether Harris or Trump, will tire of Zelensky’s rush to nuclear war incinerating his beloved Ukraine along with the rest of us, remains to be determined. Once America pulls the weapons plug, Ukraine’s delusional president is finished. Till then, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky remains the most dangerous leader in the world.