Overloaded at home, White House visitors from Old Europe traded dignity and honor for elusive security guarantees. A suicidal mission.

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? (Mark 8:36, KJV)

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s White House bow on 18 August 2025 was a masterclass in tragicomedy.

Not entirely surprising. Under the crushing weight of expectation, the actor-turned-war-hero merely reverted to form, falling back on his greatest skill: performing at his own expense – eliciting laughter even from Thalia, the Muse of Comedy.

It was not his antics – a tragic script performed in comic…

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