So Zelensky did a Davos podium speech, but where he should have stayed in his lane over Iran, he didn't, and got exposed for the clown he is. Right, so Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky went to Davos, criticised Iran over the protests there, and Iran’s foreign minister replied by calling him a confused clown. Not diplomatically. Publicly. By name. And this matters, not just because diplomacy went straight out of the window, but because it ends a long-running convenience a lot of people have been relying on, which is the idea that Zelensky can speak as some kind of universal moral authority and everyone else has to take it seriously. Iran didn’t argue with him, didn’t rebut the claim, didn’t justify itself. It simply told him where he can stick it. And another reason this matters so much is that a whole set of assumptions just stopped working at ...