lights in this moment of crisis, but putin s long table may be one of them. and joke that didn t land so well. president zelensky, a former comedian, yesterday talked about how he thought the invasion was coming on wednesday. specifically saying russia s coming on wednesday, he later said, no, no, this is a joke and instead saying he was being ironic, and that actually he wanted wednesday to be a day of unity. give us your sense of zelensky s posture here. he is obviously trying to tamp down panic. but also the mixed messaging about nato. and if ukraine even like leans in that direction, hey, we ll stay out of nato, will that be enough for putin to call this off? zelensky is a satirist and post modern political figure and a hit tv show in ukraine about a school teacher who goes on a viral rant how corrupt the ukrainian political establishment was and that viral video catapulted him into the presidency and using that show he became the real life president of ukraine. he has a very fin