The “Daddy, I want a pony” tactic goes roughly like this:
Little girl: Daddy, I want a pony! Want pony! Want want want pony!
Dad: Uhm, no, uhm, uhm, no, how about a dog?
Little girl: No no no NO! Want pony! PONY! …Dog? Well, ok then.
At this point the dad thinks, “Phew, that was a close call!”. The little girl on the other hand thinks “Wow, that’s the easiest dog I ever got.”
Zelensky’s pony is a no fly zone and the dog is anything he can get his hands on to prolong the war in the Ukraine.
The BBC has a good article on Zelensky’s tactics.
Shame on you': How President Zelensky uses speeches to get what he needs
The more equipment we give him the longer he will prolong the war. The less need he will feel to negotiate. The more Ukrainians will get killed.
He has become a dangerous war hawk who might embarrass Biden et al into doing something that ends in a nuclear war.
Politicians often feel the need ‘to do something’ no matter how foolish that might be.
Fortunately, I suspect most Americans do not even know where the Ukraine is and care more about the price of gasoline than anything happening in Europe so Biden should not be under too much pressure.
Even so, somebody needs to tell Zelensky to shut his mouth before we all find ourselves running about screaming with our hair on fire.
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