Zelensky is the most popular politician in Canada

Did you happen to watch Zelensky's speech in Ottawa today? The CBC talking heads lost count of the standing ovations, it was that great. Either that or our political elite are the most obsequious toadies to this war's grand narrative, concocted in Kyiv with plenty of input from London and Washington. Canada's parliamentarians applauded every Zelly utterence with child-like enthusiasm. The CBC knobs had a post-speech debate on whether Zelensky was greater than Winston Churchill or Nelson Mandela. Contrast the fawning Canadian reception to how Zelly-mania seems to be on the wane in most of our democratic allies. In the US, the NYT, WSJ, and Washington Post have all published recent articles claiming the "counteroffensive" launched early June is kaput. It gained a few meaningless square kilometers of real estate at the expense of tens of thousands of casualties and the destruction of billions in donated weaponry. In contrast, today's Globe and Mail informed me that the counter-offensive was making progress and victory was, if not quite yet in sight, certainly plausible. Meanwhile, Poland's President Duda this week likened Ukrain to a drowning man threatening to pull his would-be rescuers down with him. Poland has given exponentially more aid to Ukraine than Canada has, and it's right next door. Maybe Duda has a point. From the safety of eight thousand miles distance, Canada, in spite of having nothing to offer other than best wishes, remains an indefatiguable cheerleader of NATO's proxy war on Russia. We're ready to fight to the last Ukrainian.