Z’s Victory Plan pitch (gist):
Ukraine alone with its own drones and bombs won’t defeat Putin completely. Liberating occupied areas and securing a just peace requires permission given by Uncle Joe, PM Starmer, Macron, Scholz and others to fire [American, British, French and German] long-range missiles deep inside Russia1.
Yesterday Jon from Tiger Team was in Kyiv chatting up Z and his potent managers. Did not go well.
The killer hook in Jon’s face-to-face pow wows reminded me of a stanza pinched note-for-note from the Sugar Hill Gang’s Rapper’s Delight.
A-skiddlee bebop, we rock a scooby-doo
And guess what, America, we love you
'Cause ya rock and ya roll with so much soul
You could rock 'til you're a hundred and one years old
I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast
But we're like hot butter on our breakfast toast
But that song rests entirely on Bernard Edwards’ bass line from the number one hit single Good Times by Chic. So.
A song based on a snatch of another song based on a snatch of another song.
Z and Andriy def did not croon about:
military conscription sabotage,
lack of fall-back defensive fortifications in eastern Ukraine,
bungled restoration of ukraine’s energy grid,
unremitting demolition of Ukraine’s democratic institutions, i.e. parliament, court system, independent media, etc.
Looking on the bright side, Z says Ireland is rooting for us.