It must be warming Putin's heart.
of the cheering adulation and pledges of massive military support that he received during his last visit, 10 months ago. Instead, he smacked into arcades of dysfunction.before the General Assembly—but more than a third of the hall’s seats were empty, the heads of state from four of the Security Council’s five permanent members were no-shows, and his meeting with the council dramatized that body’s inability to help him stave off Russia’s aggression.
Then came a trip to Capitol Hill, in which the beleaguered House speaker, Kevin McCarthy, not only declined Zelensky’s request to address a joint session of Congress but barred him from the chamber’s private meeting room, directing the few House Republicans whoFinally, President Biden warmly welcomed Zelensky to the White House for the second time and promised him yet another package.
In other episodes not involving Ukraine, the U.N. showed itself incapable of seriousness. At a breakaway session to discuss climate change, Secretary-General the world’s five largest emitters of greenhouse gases—China, the U.S., Russia, India, and Japan—from attending. Since no remedies can be negotiated without those countries’ involvement, Guterres all but admitted that the whole meeting was mere theater.By the time Zelensky moved on to Washington, Capitol Hill was plowed over in a theater of the absurd.
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