
Zelensky taps national psyches of other countries as he appeals to save his own
CNN
This is President Volodymr Zelensky's message to the West and its leaders: We are all Ukrainians.
As he wages an existential struggle for his own nation, Zelensky is tapping into the patriotic symbolism, historic traumas and idealized self-images people have about their countries to encapsulate the desperate plight of his own.
His masterful political conceit, on display in his address to the US Congress on Wednesday, is designed to frame the war not as a confusing and far-off dispute bound up in the confusing history of greater Russia but as everybody's war.

The White House is making clear it views President Donald Trump’s Friday Oval Office showdown with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as an overwhelming win underscoring Trump’s “America First” leadership, dispatching top officials and allies on the airwaves to amplify Trump’s handling of the situation even as European leaders are putting on a key show of force of unity for Ukraine and its leader.