Zelensky PR team tries a lighter touch

Hero of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky finally got his long-overdue Vogue cover. His PR team obviously felt a need to show the softer side of the greatest war-time leader since Winston Churchill. After all, endless pictures of the Z-man marching purposefully from one photo-op to the next in his green T-shirt have become more than a little repetitive. By way of an homage of sorts, Vogue even got American celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz out of cold storage at the cryogenics lab to do the shoot. As you recall, Leibovitz’s famous photo essay of Winston and Mrs. Churchill in the darkest days of the London blitz is credited with turning the tide in England’s favour during WWII. Hopefully she retains her magic touch! Elsewhere in war news, I see where the Z-man has fired both his Defense Minister and Attorney General. Apparently both departments are riddled top to bottom with collaborators. It’s gotta suck when you’re trying to lead your country to victory and the only people you can trust are your foreign advisers.

Canada's PM Harper displaces Obama as leader of Free World

No, while I've birthed some whoppers in this space, I couldn't possibly make up anything that retarded.

All the credit goes to Ezra Levant.

Apparently Obama's stooped and slender shoulders can no longer bear the burden of leading the Free World. He is too busy appeasing Putin, Iran, North Korea, Republicans, Wall Street, unions, the Democratic Party, AIPAC, the gay lobby, the gun lobby, Michelle, and the Taliban.

Thank God Big Steve has stepped into the breach. His appeasement agenda is limited to the dirty oil lobby and Likud.

The best thing about having Harper as leader of the Free World is that while he talks a tough game, he's been steadily shrinking Canada's defence spending. For all his bellicose talk, Big Steve couldn't start a war even if Canada had enemies.

As Winston Churchill supposedly said, it's always better to jaw-jaw than to war-war.

Netanyahu: Churchill of the Middle East

It's no secret that Yuval Diskin has long held Prime Minister Netanyahu in contempt, but his recent remarks underline the personal nature of that animosity.

There is plenty to dislike about the PM, and it would be hard to find much positive in his tenure. Is the country safer? More prosperous? More respected among the family of nations?

No, no, and no again, but that hardly seems to disturb Diskin. What really gets Diskin is that Netanyahu smokes cigars and drinks alcohol during cabinet meetings!

In the middle of such a sensitive meeting he is standing with a drink in one hand and a cigar in the other.

Oh for God's sake, lighten up! Surely Diskin is acquainted with one Winston Churchill, who led the British Empire through her darkest hours, all with a drink in one hand and a cigar in the other.