Watchman comment: finally, some woke up in Europe, the Polish PM tells us what I have been saying all along. "See how it sounds: 500 million Europeans asking 300 million Americans to defend them from 140 million Russians".
When Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelensky traveled to the White House, ostensibly in order to sign a deal with Trump over Ukrainian rare earth metals, few knew what to expect. Yet almost no one would have predicted the fireworks that would ensue as Zelensky sparred with Trump and Vice President JD Vance over the future of the Ukraine War and what the
consequences for an abandonment of the effort might mean for the United States
Jimmy and The Duran hosts Alexander Mercouris and Alex Christoforou discuss the dramatically different reception Zelensky has received from Trump compared with the gushing fawning Joe Biden and Democrats showered on him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9mZvo96xuI
Secretary of State Marco Rubio Terminates US Support of Ukraine’s Power Grid
Ukrainian MP Oleksandr Dubinsky calls
for IMPEACHMENT Proceedings against (Fake) "President" (Dictator) Zelensky after the Oval Office Shouting Match: HIS OWN PEOPLE DON'T TRUST
(NOR LIKE) HIM TO DO WHAT'S RIGHT FOR THEIR
COUNTRY (The Whole World should be Calling for his Removal and Fair real
Elections)
 JBoy, I love "Big Macki"! The first 40 or so minutes of yesterday's oval office press talk (vid) went quite normal. Questions were asked and replies were given in general form, addressing the public. There was some mild banter. But then a breakdown (vid) occurred: It was all destroyed
when JD Vance, the US vice-president entered the conversation to declare:
“The path to peace and the path to prosperity is maybe engaging in diplomacy. “We tried the
pathway of Joe Biden of thumping our chest and pretending the Potus’s words
counted more than Potus’s actions,” he declared. To anyone who has
spent time in or around the Ukraine war, such airy talk of “diplomacy” – as
if it means anything without hard force to back it up – is exasperatingly
naive. Mr Zelensky should
probably have let it slide. But he was not taking it. “Can I ask you?” he
asked, leaning towards Mr Vance. “Sure,” replied Mr
Vance. It was a mistake. There followed a
barrage of invective about Ukrainian ungratefulness – in front of the world’s
media. For anyone who
remembers how the whole Ukraine conflict was initiated by the U.S., the
hypocrisy played out here is overwhelming. How can one, as
Trump and Vance do, lament that the war has destroyed Ukraine and led to
countless people dying for no good cause and, at the same time, demand that
Ukraine be thankful for all the 'advice', weapons and money the U.S. has
given in first place to drag Ukraine into a war and to wage it. But Zelenski wasn't
upset about U.S. hypocrisy. He was upset that he was told to make peace. The bad mood he was
in had already festered for some time. In late 2023 Simon Shuster had
portrait Zelenski for Time: On my first day in
Kyiv, I asked one member of his circle how the President was feeling. The
response came without a second’s hesitation: “Angry.” But his convictions
haven’t changed. Despite the recent setbacks on the battlefield, he does not
intend to give up fighting or to sue for any kind of peace. On the contrary,
his belief in Ukraine’s ultimate victory over Russia has hardened into a form
that worries some of his advisers. It is immovable, verging on the messianic.
“He deludes himself,” one of his closest aides tells me in frustration.
“We’re out of options. We’re not winning. But try telling him that.” Trump and Vance
tried to tell him - Zelenski exploded. Some say this was trap or set up. I
and others disagree. It was Trump who wanted the 'mineral deal' to be signed.
Why would he sabotage that? It would have been
easy for Zelenski to not react to Vance's interdiction but he instead started
a fight. He even might have dreamed of a knock out. The incident, in
full view of the U.S. public, will allow Trump to drop Ukraine as the bad
asset that it now is. As I commented yesterday: What will Trump do
now? Best guess: He will walk away
from Ukraine. (No rare earth deal or anything else.) There seems to be no
regret by Zelenski who has failed to apologize. Meanwhile USAID has
stopped repairs of Ukraine's energy grid. Other U.S. support is highly
endangered: Trump administration
press secretary Caroline Leavitt stated that the U.S. will no longer provide
military assistance to Ukraine because their priority is peace negotiations.
This decision came after the controversy during Zelensky’s visit. "We are no
longer going to just write blank checks for a war in a very distant country
without a real, lasting peace," Leavitt said. Zelenski hopes that
Europe will back him. But while some European bots claim to stand by Ukraine
they have neither the men, money nor weapons to do so. There is no European
unity on it: Latvia, Lithuania
and Estonia are 'very unhappy' they were betrayed by being excluded from
tomorrow's Ukraine summit in London. They 'have a plan... but they weren't
invited' - Sky News Zelenski will have
to go - one way or the other. His former advisor, the slimy Oleksy
Arestovych, is already offering himself as replacement:
The Russians are the
big winner in this. Ukraine is in a scuffle with its main sponsor. The
western alliance has splintered. The enemies' frontline is falling apart. Russia is opposed to
Trump's main demand of a cease-fire along the current frontline. But Zelenski
is blamed for sabotaging it. I do not see how
Zelenski can escape from this. 
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