Zelensky Shifts Goal Posts as Legacy Media Readies American Public for Ukraine’s Defeat

The Gaza crisis and Ukrainian Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi’s bombshell admission that Kiev’s counteroffensive had failed and turned into a “stalemate” sparked a wave of doom and gloom among Western policymaking circles and media, and forced Ukraine’s president to shift his rhetoric about the prospects of a speedy “victory.”