Posted on 03/01/2025 2:32:27 AM PST by Sam77
The fiery meeting on Friday between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy captured the tense moment when Ukrainian Ambassador Oksana Markarova realized the magnitude of the damage done.
The viral moment showed Markarova appearing distraught, with her head in her hand, as Trump questioned Zelenskyy about not wanting a ceasefire with Russia in front of the entire world.
Markarova lowered her head to her right hand and closed her eyes as Zelenskyy continued to dig a hole for himself in front of President Trump and Vice President JD Vance.
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My wife and I replayed the six minutes or so and I could not help but notice Zelenskyy talked over both Trump and JD nearly 100% of the time.
Zelenskyy kept looking at the cameras. He knew he was talking over Trump and JD and he knew he was looking domineering by keeping his arms crossed and head cocked back to look downward on these men who are quite a bit taller then he is.
Little Z is a Little Sh—
Trump and Vance can handle it when it comes. Which is great. And this ability showed yesterday in both men.
But, for his part, Zelenskyy appeared to conduct himself, during that Oval Office press event, in multiple “textbook” ways that a cruel verbal abuser will tend to employ, with a person with whom he (or she) is in a relationship, to discourage and degrade that person.
Obviously Trump and Vance, to their great credit, were having none of it. But many people do tend to suffer and buckle under the pressure of this kind of abuse, especially when it is employed over time. It can end by being “called out” as the crass personality-dismantling tactic that it is. But the victim will first need to recognize that it is a tactic, a tool to produce submission. This is not necessarily obvious or apparent to the victim, who may be so much in the mode of perpetually absorbing criticism that he or she doesn’t think to push back or really begin defending themselves.
Z may not have had his fix since he left Kyiv a couple of days ago. It would explain his behavior.
Her reaction is being used to embarrass Z.
Bad things typically happen to people who do that.
No?
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