Zelensky adrift on a river in Egypt

Zelensky refuses to accept NATO's narrative that a Ukrainian missile strayed into Poland—or that he hasn't been set up to lose.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky must today realize, more than perhaps at any point in the nine months since Russia invaded his nation, that his Western allies have set him up to lose.

Despite valiant resistance and heartening battlefield victories, he is in a war his own top military ally says he cannot win. Zelensky is thus a hero facing a Hobson’s choice. On one hand, he can accept a negotiated settlement in which he yields a sizeable