I noted recently, drawing a parallels between the Ukraine war and the Peloponnesian, that we may soon see (post)modern incarnation of Polyalces being sent to Zelensky with a proposal to turn his decree forbidding peace talks with Russia to the wall. And no, it was not Kellogg or Bessent whom I had had in mind. Here though, as it appears, true Polyalces comes with a big bang on Zelensky’s dumb kettle calling Trump’s pot black: