Posted on 02/20/2025 5:20:52 AM PST by RandFan
... While Scholz didn’t call out the U.S. leader by name, there’s no doubt who he was slapping down when he said: “Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the elected head of the state of Ukraine. The inability to hold regular elections in the midst of war is in line with the Ukrainian constitution and electoral laws. No one should claim otherwise.”
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has had almost nothing but warm words for Trump since he reentered the White House, to try to keep the so-called special relationship alive.
But Ukraine is something of a red line. Starmer called Zelenskyy on Wednesday night, and according to a readout released by Downing Street told the Ukrainian president that he supports him “as Ukraine’s democratically elected leader and said that it was perfectly reasonable to suspend elections during war time as the U.K. did during World War II.”
In an olive branch to Trump, the No. 10 statement said Starmer “reiterated his support for the U.S.-led efforts to get a lasting peace in Ukraine that deterred Russia from any future aggression.”
Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, who has clashed with Trump over his insistent warnings he could acquire the Danish territory of Greenland, said she didn’t understand the U.S. president’s “attack” on Zelenskyy, local media reported. “Zelenskyy is a democratically elected and otherwise unusually capable political leader in Europe,” Frederiksen was quoted as saying.
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If war means no elections, then I’m thinking war is going to become really popular…
Check please, f/ Ukraine, f/nato, f/un, …
...and Donald Trump as an elected head of state has a right to communicate his wishes and opinions on Ukraine in order to get a seat at the table.
Hitler was elected.
Had to say that.
A point is how the laws were changed to permit no elections during a “war”.
No one wants to speak to the lead up of the war The U.S. had a similar situation with the Cuban Missile crisis when the shoe was on the other foot that damn near resulted in a Russian/Us war. Remember how exercised the country became with missiles right next door? Rewriting history to achieve a desired narrative and fool the people by claiming a projected Russian overreaction to Zelinsky’s Crimean bombing of resident native Russians. This time Trump is piercing through the smoke and mirror BS and the elite globalist neocons have bitten off more than they can chew.
Zelensky? BARF!
Bay is Open.
Bomb’s Away?
Europeans have authoritarianism baked into their DNA.
Their countries have been ruled by royalty or totalitarians through the vast majority of history.
Eventually, most things tend to return to the default position.
German Clown Minister Oaf Doltz weighs in, red rubber nose and all.
Yeah - neocon POUFF is calling Trump “Donald Chamberlain”, and he trash-talked Tulsi Gabbard last week when she got confirmed.
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