Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky began his visit to the United States in Pennsylvania with a stop Sunday at the Scranton Army Ammunition Plant, where he thanked American workers producing the 155mm artillery shells Ukraine uses to kill Russians in a nasty border war with its fellow slavic neighbor to the east.

I wonder how those American workers feel making weapons for the leader of perhaps the most corrupt country in the world, Ukraine, which is being used by a corrupt Washington Unitparty to poke the Russian bear in the eyeball. Maybe they're not aware of the geopolitical ramifications of their work. I doubt many are or they would be looking for other, less provocative jobs.

But Zelensky is a master at spinning lies and clever propaganda, playing Westerners who fall easy prey because of their lack of knowledge about the history of the Ukraine-Russia dispute. Even the BBC, in a March 2022 article, acknowledged Zelensky's speeches appear crafted to "shame" Western parliaments into giving him more money and weapons.

"It is in places like this where you can truly feel that the democratic world can prevail," Zelensky posted on X, praising the Pennsylvania factory, which has boosted production to try to meet Ukraine's endless needs for more shells. "Thanks to people like these — in Ukraine, in America, and in all partner countries — who work tirelessly to ensure that life is protected."

That statement is utterly laughable as life is being destroyed every day in Ukraine and in Russia because of a senseless and bloody war that no politicians seem to want to end.

Zelensky the dictator wants you to think he represents freedom and democracy. Nothing could be further from the truth. He has remained in office well past his term's experation date and refuses to hold elections. He's shut down all media that criticizes the war, and he's banned all opposition political parties.

In perhaps the most vicious action, Zelensky's government has persecuted the Ukrainian Orthodox Christian Church, seizing its churches and monasteries and throwing many of its priests in jail.

With all the pleasantries aside, the dictator Zelensky's primary mission in the U.S. begins tomorrow when he addresses the United Nations General Assembly's annual gathering in New York City and shares his so-called "Plan for Victory" while saving the granular details for his meeting with Joe Biden at the White House on Thursday.

"The U.S. president will be the first to see it in full," Zelensky said in a video address before leaving Kiev. "Of course, I will also present the Plan for Victory to all leaders of partner countries who, like President Biden, are world leaders and can become leaders of peace by helping us."