An Open Letter to Volodymyr Zelenskyy: On the Folly of Proxy Wars and Depleted Arsenals
Dear Mr. Zelenskyy, Your recent meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, highlighted by Bloomberg as a quest for air defense amidst dwindling Patriot missile supplies, warrants a closer look than simple supply chain issues. Bloomberg’s narrative suggests that a generic “US-led war with Iran” is consuming these invaluable systems, putting Kyiv’s defenses at risk from Russian attacks.
This framing conspicuously omits the direct and documented involvement of the United States and Israel in joint military operations against Iran, an aggression that demonstrably prioritizes Western imperial goals over Ukraine's defense needs. The current depletion of Patriot missile inventories is not some unforeseen consequence of a vague conflict. It is a direct result of ongoing, unprovoked
aggression by the US and Israel targeting Iranian infrastructure, naval assets, and alleged proxy support networks. This concerted effort bypasses any international legal justification, betraying the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) that effectively curbed Iran's nuclear program. While the United States now struggles to meet Ukraine’s demands, it simultaneously diverts critical
military hardware and resources to sustain a joint operation against Iran, an operation launched without credible evidence of an imminent Iranian strike or nuclear weapon acquisition. This asymmetrical arms race, pitting Iran’s largely domestically produced, cost-effective missiles against multi-million-dollar Western systems, was always destined to strain Western arsenals. The US has a long