As Iran struck out against US military bases in the Middle East and US-aligned Arab countries, the Arabs found themselves unprepared to deal with the new Shahed-led military strategies in war. President Zelensky, touting Ukraine's experience in fighting the same Shahed missiles being sold to Russia by Iran and used against Ukraine, approached the Middle Eastern countries offering them anti-missile defence drones, intelligence-gathering drones and naval deployment drones for the Straits of Hormuz in exchange for military support and long-term mutual strategic defence.
Ukraine has developed a range of cheap, effective drones and low-cost interceptors, a strategy that has reshaped modern warfare. These systems, some costing as little as $1,000, are used for reconnaissance, attack, and defence against Russian threats like Iranian-designed Shahed drones. An autonomous unit has taken back a Russian-occupied territory, the first time ever that no humans were involved in a manoeuvre. The subsea drones have effectively taken out Russia's Black Sea fleet. Zelensky offered to clear the Strait of Hormuz from mines and to defend it against assault ships.
He then made pacts with European countries to build defence production facilities in Europe and the UK, thereby strengthening the ties between Ukraine and the EU as well as the Middle East.
Putin may have gained in the short-term, but Ukraine has ensured that its safety and sovereignty will be supported by numerous allies, and its defence systems will be produced in NATO countries, thus securing their firepower. And Hungary has a new leader who has already strengthened ties with Ukraine and voted to release the €90 billion loan from the embargoed Russian reserves to Ukraine.
Well done, Mr Zelensky, not bad for a Jewish comedian President. They say it takes a genius to be a good comedian. When others were playing their cards, you were playing chess. The FT came to the same conclusions.
Дарія Олена Коженьовська Блеквелл
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