Not at all. The next day after the ceasefire Zelensky will turn out into a lamest of all lame ducks. Don't forget what fate beset Churchill in the 1945 parliamentary election campaign.

Thus, the longer the war rages on, the more Zelensky is interested in prolongation of it even further. Ditto Netanyahu. The structural homology of these two cases shows that current Biden administration, while trying to keep reins over their two so-called principal allies, reached the point of no return in its brave quest toward Arkham asylum.

Meanwhile in Antarctica, penguins stand brave like Ukraine, financed better than Oswald Cobblepot’s gangsters.