March 17, 2022: Zelenskyy's appeal falls short — for now
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- POLITICO
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- Thu 17 Mar 2022
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- https://www.politico.com/podcasts/playbook-daily-briefing
No one was surprised by the request: a no-fly zone — and if not that, then access to those Soviet-style fighter jets in Poland that could help them “close the sky.” But if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's — who has risen to almost folk-legend status in the eyes of Congress, and who clearly did his homework, invoking 9/11, Martin Luther King Jr. and Pearl Harbor in one 16-minute address — thought his message would immediately elicit the changes he wanted, he was wrong. At least so far.
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