Zelenskyy finds his appeal to the West disappearing

One by one, those politicians in the West who are gangbusters about the war are losing to rivals who are sceptical.

- M.D. NALAPAT

In the Broadway musical "Chicago", Richard Gere as the canny lawyer sings about the way he is managing to get acquitted so many guilty clients, "Give them (the jury) the old razzle dazzle and they will come begging for more".

Helped by the ruling establishments of several NATO member states, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fed western populations with a surfeit of razzle dazzle. They have been asked to believe that Ukraine was fighting for the very survival of western civilisation. Were Ukraine to be defeated by Russian forces, western civilisation would be given a mortal blow. In an aside to countries outside NATO, Zelenskyy has a grim message. The Ukraine war in reality began in 2014 with the outlawing of Russian language and culture within the boundaries of Ukraine.