Posted on 10/18/2024 8:47:09 AM PDT by bimboeruption
In a context where thousands of American citizens are struggling in the aftermath of the Helene and Milton hurricanes, it’s outrageous that feeble Joe Biden is still dishing out hundreds of millions of dollars to the ‘world’s greatest salesman’, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zlensky, to bankroll a war effort in a conflict that he has no chance of winning.
Of course, America first leader and Republican Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump has been very critical of this situation, and as election day approaches, he has been stepping up his criticism of Zelensky.
This week, while presenting his ‘victory plan’ to his countrymen, Zelensky went over board and demanded that ‘either Ukraine joins NATO or gets nuclear weapons’, in what many understood as some kind of ultimatum to Trump.
As we know, that’ll never fly with Trump, who may have felt free to step up his criticism of the embattled Ukrainian leader.
So yesterday (17), Trump for the first time lay the blame on Zelenskiy for helping start that nation’s war with Russia.
This was widely seen as yet another evidence that Trump will shift the present ruinous U.S. policy toward Ukraine when he wins the Nov. 5 election.
Reuters reported:
“The Republican former president has frequently criticized Zelenskiy on the campaign trail, repeatedly calling him “the greatest salesman on Earth” for having solicited and received billions of dollars of U.S. military aid since the war broke out in 2022.
Trump has also slammed the Ukrainian leader for failing to seek peace with Moscow, and he has suggested Ukraine may have to cede some of its land to Russia to make a peace deal, a concession Kiev considers unacceptable.”
Trump’s comments on a podcast with Patrick Bet-David ‘went a step further’ than his previous criticism.
Zelensky would be to blame not just for failing to end the war, Trump said, but also for helping start it.
“’That doesn’t mean I don’t want to help him because I feel very badly for those people. But he should never have let that war start. The war’s a loser’, Trump said.”
The Ukrainian presented his ‘victory plan’ to Trump during a ‘cordial meeting’ in New York in September.
But Trump has made no secrets that he will work to end the war in Ukraine when he defeats Kamala Harris on Nov. 5.
He has gone as far as saying that he could end the conflict ‘before he takes office in January’.
As for cackling Kamala Harris, she would continue to keep the war machine running, to the delight of the ‘military industrial complex’.
“Harris has pledged to continue supporting Ukraine, and she has portrayed a victory for the eastern European nation as a vital U.S. national security interest. She has frequently rebuked Trump for being unwilling to stand up to Russian President Vladimir Putin.”
Zelinski presented an absolutely unacceptable position to Trump. If it looks either like the only way to end the war will be to make Ukraine a NATO member or, supposedly, for Ukraine to go nuclear, we are giving Russia an irresistible provocation to go nuclear first. In other words, Zelinski’s proposition is a surefire formula for World War III.
Amen to that!
In the Bloggers & Personal forum, on a thread titled Trump Criticizes Zelensky for Helping Start the War in Ukraine, as ‘The Greatest Salesman on Earth’ Now Demands ‘either NATO Membership or Nuclear Weapons’, POGO163 wrote: Lei’s see...Russia attacked Ukraine and got kicked out of the country except for the parts Russia had invaded in 2014.
Now Ukraine has all but kicked Russia out of Crimea; taken over an Oblast in Russia; and has almost destroyed Russia’s oil supply.
Meanwhile Russia has lost almost 700,000 soldiers and done nothing but try to kill civilians and blow up every building in Ukraine without making any progress in winning the war. And now the Russian propaganda says Russia is winning.
Did I mention Russia is killing POWs? And has taken thousands of kids from Ukraine to Russia?
I recall watching a video, filmed by Ukrainians and never denied by Ukraine, of them shooting Russian POW's in the back.
Russia has solidified its hold on much of the terrain east of the river - they never wanted Kiev. The men Zelensky forfeited in Kursk are never coming home - they are trapped and being picked off by Russians. The 700,000 soldiers is the most accurate estimate of actul Ukrainian losses of their own men because they have lacked adequate air defenses, unlike Russia. No, the Russians never focused on civilians - that's why Kiev has a night life of movies and dancing etc. Pretty much everything the Ukraine is doing, like targeting civilians in Kursk or droning apartment buildings, you are falsely attributing to Russia. Zelensky is being abandoned by the west - now they just provide token support and lip service, but some countries are not even pretending to hear him when he speaks now.
NATO ran this war for the Ukrainian side, and they just aren't that good. NATO and it's puppet are losing, and Ukrainian men in the war are still needlessly dying because Zelensky doesn't like the optics of surrendering when his troops are surrounded.
This isn’t just about Ukraine. It’s other countries that are threatened by stronger neighbours as well. Saudi is already talking about acquiring the bomb because western weakness in confronting Iran. I’d rather that wahabbi riddled sandpit did not possess nukes, but I wouldn’t blame them for seeking to get them if they know they cannot depend on any outside help against Iran.
Huh?????
What you mean?
The zeepers most certainly will be furiously shoveling coal into their propaganda locomotive to keep the lies barreling forward with more threads, anger issues and arguments to come.
I wonder if Jim is getting tired of it.
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