Which is why the only people rushing to defend Zelensky's honor right now are the DC Blob wedded to the military industrial complex and the European political elites who are perturbed that Trump is disturbing their gravy train in the form of the post-Cold War international consensus of American hegemonic patronage. All these histrionics are just the death rattles of the current international order, which for the past 50 years hasn't really been to the benefit of the average American, which is why the DC elite failed miserably at manufacturing public consent for endlessly funding Ukraine as a proxy in their quixotic gambit to overthrow Putin because their brains ossified in the 1980s.