{"id":1788384,"date":"2022-12-28T07:48:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T12:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1788384"},"modified":"2022-12-28T07:49:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T12:49:04","slug":"zelenskys-groveling-pr-offensive-hits-the-dc-unipartys-sweet-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zelenskys-groveling-pr-offensive-hits-the-dc-unipartys-sweet-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Zelensky\u2019s Groveling PR Offensive Hits The DC Uniparty\u2019s Sweet Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fzelenskys-groveling-pr-offensive-hits-the-dc-unipartys-sweet-spot%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1788384&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Many have compared the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Winston Churchill. The comedian-turned-politician is not the avatar of democracy that his legion of American admirers think he is, let alone this generation\u2019s savior of Western civilization. But it\u2019s doubtful that Churchill\u2019s star addresses to joint sessions of Congress during the Second World War were received with any less adulation than Zelensky\u2019s speech in the week before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>The question of whether it was appropriate for Zelensky to appear on the podium of the House in a variant of the GI Joe costume he\u2019s been sporting on Zoom appearances throughout the year misses the point. This may have been his first foreign leader to act in this manner since Yasser Arafat, a terrorist from the Palestinian Liberation Organization, arrived at the White House in 1993 in a military uniform to sign an agreement with Israel. He never intended to keep it. It was normal for a man who knows his role is to be the hero at all times.<\/p>\n<p>It was interesting to note that most Republican congressional leaders seemed equally eager to praise the enormous amount of U.S. Aid heading to Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>Many Americans sympathize with Russian President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s brutal invasion of Ukraine. The notion that \u201cProviding assistance for Ukrainians to defeat the Russians is the number one priority for the United States,\u201d Mitch McConnell, Minority Leader<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1605301253952589824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1605301253952589824%7Ctwgr%5Ec11438b23a44d2c65633a956e19fe2ed26a2174b%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonexaminer.com%2Fopinion%2Fmcconnells-ukraine-comments-show-why-republican-voters-flocked-to-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> put<\/a> It is quite another. The same can be said for doubling the amount of money the United States was spending on Afghanistan in its last years for this war\u2019s first year.<\/p>\n<p>This is what the governing classes seems to be telling you. The Russian seizure in 2014 of Crimea and parts of Eastern Ukraine was not seen by any of the parties as an existential threat. Nor did they consider it the most pressing issue facing the country. Since then, a lot has happened.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats, who were opposed to almost all American military interventions abroad, except for Korea, now find a war they love. That\u2019s largely because Ukraine \u2014 and Zelensky \u2014 played a central role in the Democrats\u2019 first impeachment of former President Donald Trump. <\/p>\n<p>The fallacious claim that Trump had conspired with Russia in order to steal the 2016 presidential election was linked to the myth that Trump was blackmailing Ukraine. The country was a symbol of both Trump and Putin&#8217;s struggle for power, as well as the main focus of left-wing NGOs dedicated to their cause. \u201chuman rights\u201d that are, regardless of its often-undemocratic behavior, deeply committed to Zelensky\u2019s government.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican congressional leadership is also displaying a certain Cold War nostalgia, acting as though Russia poses the same threat as Soviet Communism to the West. <\/p>\n<p>Once Putin\u2019s war began and Ukraine became a plucky<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The $100 billion poured into Europe\u2019s most corrupt nation so far is both excessive and unrelated to direct American national interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":1788387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[6919,12134,7948,8010,6033,9557,12133,11564],"class_list":["post-1788384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-federalist","tag-groveling","tag-hits","tag-offensive","tag-spot","tag-sweet","tag-unipartys","tag-zelenskys"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1788387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}