Political Observer surveys the dust pile.

Headline: Volodymyr Zelenskyy to meet Joe Biden in Washington in quest for more aid

Sub-headline: Ukraine leader also set for talks at Pentagon and Capitol Hill as Congress considers $24bn support package for Kyiv

https://www.ft.com/content/5e3867be-4dcd-4028-a9c2-e029f57743ee

Riffing on the nearly anguished themes of Mr. Rachman’s September 11, 2023 essay, that seeks, yet doesn’t quite find the possible/probable value of ‘whataboutism’ ?

Opinion Geopolitics

Trump’s trials will inspire a global epidemic of whataboutism

The world’s despots will use the prosecutions of the former US president for propaganda purposes

https://www.ft.com/content/8738529d-b891-4793-bf6a-5f580b754ac3

The Financial Times is the defender of America’s Proxy War, that seems to be failing, except for the propaganda offensive, of this newspaper and other news outlets. The Reader needs to look for alternative sources. Might that Reader look to the current situation on Maui, as an utter failure of Biden Administrations to address a pressing internal crisis? How might ‘whataboutism’ apply in this instance?

Gideon Rachman ends his essay here:

It is unrealistic to expect that reasoned argument can defeat all forms of whataboutism. But the surest way to lose the debate is to refuse to engage in it in the first place.

Colonel Douglas Macgregor offers a telling analysis of the continuing Ukraine debacle, and its flaccid leadership’s opportunism.

https://www.ft.com/content/5e3867be-4dcd-4028-a9c2-e029f57743ee

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