Ukraine's Human Sacrifice Experiment

Zelensky wants to know how many people need to die to shore up the economy

(Illustration by Mykhailo Aleksandrov for Mysl)

It’s difficult to establish exactly the moment during President Volodymyr Zelensky’s ten months as president when function lost is lustre, when churning out hopeful-sounding memes became secondary to their presentation on Instagram, when the cult of haughty ego took hold.

Perhaps it was on March 4 in the Ve…