More sweet nothings for Zelensky

On PM Carney’s European tour to scare up new trading partners, he stopped off in Kyiv, there to continue the NATO tradition of promising Ukraine unending support of “whatever it takes etc…” Mark and Zelly had a big hug and the Ukrainian PM pretended to be happy to see him, in spite of Canada’s unbroken 3+ year record of making one promise after another that we cannot deliver on. Carney announced $2 billions in support. That’s not new money, it’s a drawdown from funds that have been promised several times already. The money will be spent buying US weapons from that guy in DC who we are allegedly boycotting. Why? Is that the only place to buy weapons? Of course not. Equal or better weapon systems can be had from numerous sources, but… oh, you know… we wouldn’t want to antagonize Trump, because tariffs and stuff. We will turn those weapons over to Ukraine, and within a week or two max, Russia will have turned our two billion dollars into scrap metal. What the Canadian taxpayers get for our two billions is the satisfaction of knowing we facilitated dragging out the war a few days, and the privilege of paying back the 10+ billions we have thus far committed to this war. Then again, maybe I’ve got it all wrong. Maybe the next few billions will pull Zelly’s chestnuts out of the inferno, deliver the orcs the final blow, and lead to the glorious triumph of democracy over Putin. CBC for one still believes that’s a possibility. Murray Brewster has high hopes for the new Flamingo cruise missile the Ukrainians will start mass producing this winter. With its 3000 km range, this could be the gamechanger that finally changes the game, unlike all the gamechangers that have gone before. Maybe. Maybe not. A far more likely scenario is that the Flamingo factory will be a smoldering ruin long before the first Flamingo comes off the production line. By then NATO will have come up with the next pie-in-the-sky plan to prolong the war. Their only option is to admit they lost, and tragically, many more Ukrainians will die before that will happen.