Time’s up for the Sinful Dwarf
3rd March 2025
The title of this post is a reference to a Scandinavian sexploitation film from the early 1970s called The Sinful Dwarf. I never saw the flick — that sort of movie doesn’t appeal to me — but back in the day I saw a lurid ad for it in the back pages of the entertainment section of The Washington Post and the name stuck in my memory.
The sins of the Dwarf of Kiev are of a different sort. Mr. Zelensky got himself into hot water on Friday when he chose to get contentious with President Trump and Vice President Vance in the Oval Office. Maybe he forgot that he had come to the capital of the American empire to beg favors for Ukraine, and decided to bite the hand that fed him.
Or maybe he didn’t really make the decision. Maybe the contretemps was set up, prepared in advance, at least in its general outline. Mr. Trump and Mr. Vance may have been waiting for an opportune moment to steer events in a different direction, one that had been decided well in advance.