March 17, 2022: Zelenskyy's appeal falls short for now
No one was surprised by the request: a no-fly zone \u2014 and if not that, then access to those Soviet-style fighter jets in Poland that could help them \u201cclose the sky.\u201d But if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's\xa0 \u2014 who has risen to almost folk-legend status in the eyes of Congress, and who clearly did his homework, invoking 9/11, Martin Luther King Jr. and Pearl Harbor in one 16-minute address \u2014 thought his message would immediately elicit the changes he wanted, he was wrong. At least so far.\xa0\nSubscribe to the POLITICO Playbook newsletter\nRaghu Manavalan is the Host of POLITICO's Playbook.Jenny Ament is the Executive Producer of POLITICO Audio.