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That Zelensky read a printed speech, rather than from a teleprompter, enhanced the power of his presentation. Somehow it added to his authenticity and made the message more compelling. My Italian born, school teacher husband noted Zelensky was placing his finger beneath lines of text as he read them, which is what schoolchildren do when learning to read. Nothing felt staged, and so much passion!

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I was awed by the inclusion of Saratoga in Zelensky's call outs to US history. I've thought since the beginning of Russia's invasion and US support of an independent Ukraine that the best analogy from our history was to the American Revolution. US independence would never had been achieved without French intervention, basically in support of its ongoing jostling with its British imperial rival, to which those uppity and idealistic American colonists were an irritant. Britain's failed invasion from Canada which collapsed ignominiously at Saratoga in 1777 didn't end the war; it took the French fleet off Yorktown four years later to do that. But the analogy seems brilliant. And yes, I doubt many modern day Americans have the background to appreciate the analogy. I wish we did, but am not sure it matters really.

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