Michael McCune Analysis: Zelenskyy White House Meeting (good read)

Benson Chit Chat ^ | 3/1/2025 | Michael McCune

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

No. Don’t have time.

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

Lazy response.

What did you think of the analysis?

[AppyPappy]

If Trump gets the deal, everyone wins except the TDS sufferers.

[BikerJoe]

Zelensky thinks he can get enough help from the Euros to keep the war going, and that Ukraine can then outlast Russia in their war of attrition.

I guess I don't get the strategy. At this point, Russia has 5 times the population. Z can get all the Euro arms he'd ever want, but, as JD pointed out yesterday, he already has teams going out to grab conscripts, so he's running out of cannon-fodder.

At this point, it's all about "will to fight" and who will lose it first. I'll give Z points on that one, because it seems like the Russkies are having less of it all the time.

[shotgun]

I think it was more like the smack down that Michael Corleone gave to Moe Greene and we all know what happened to Moe, Carlo, and the heads of the 5 families.

[Robert DeLong]

That works for me.

[PIF]

And once U.S. companies have mining operations in Ukraine, Putin will be unable to attack without triggering massive international consequences.
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That will not stop Putin who has never honored any agreement he signed. Its about restoring the USSR. All of it.

Even now they are talking about the eventual war with NATO. Any pause will just give Putin the troops he needs freed up to take the Suwaki Gap and link up with Kaliniingrad.

[butlerweave]

Zelenskyy wants never ending cash for nothing in return

[McGavin999]

Most of us here on FreeRepublic had that figured out long ago. I don’t think Trump can trust Zelenski not to blow things up when everyone is at the table.

He’s not going to drag us into a war. If the Europeans want him in NATO then they had better get used to NATO without the US.

[equaviator]

I’m comfortable with my own understanding of it this morning and it may change again in another month when what happened yesterday wouldn’t matter as much as what happens three months from now.

[FreedBird]

Vance was intuitive enough to pick up on Zelensky’s bad attitude and no gratitude.

[Lakeshark]

Hopkins. Still great after all these years. Well worth the 6 minutes. She always cuts through the crap. Loved it.

[nuconvert]

2 comments...1) Zelenskyy wasn’t invited to the WH. He pushed his way in after taking advice from his own chief of staff to ask for an invitation and against the advice of Gen. Kellog. Gen. Kellogg tried to disuade him from doing a public meeting with Trump, to no avail.
2)
Zelenskyy was prepped ahead of time by his own people & members of Congress as to what the itinerary was and what he should do & say (and not say) in the Oval Office before they headed across the hall to do the actual signing. Again, Zelenskyy didn’t take the advice.

[RoseofTexas]

Zelensky and the EU set up Trump. He went with the intentions of throwing the mineral agreement back at Trump‘s face after all the negotiation that happened before he landed on our soil. He handed the EU and the nasty evil corrupt Democrats a lifeline. Only time will tell what the outcome is from all this dust up. How conveniently that every eu leaders were waiting in the UK for Zelensky to make his arrival and if you noticed all the texts on social media from them were in the same format. This is the beginning I believe of Trump fighting for Americans and his presidential existence. They’re gonna come at him from every which way. 🙏🏻If you are a praying person and you’ve been praying for him you’re gonna have to double up because it’s gonna get rough from here on. Remember what the Lord said in His holy scriptures, a house divided cannot stand. America is at that point right now we are so divided to the point that half of the population whole heartedly want America to fail and disappear. We are in a fight of our lifetime! God help us!🙏🏻

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

With Zelenskyy signaling he doesn’t want peace without our money or NATO, we are stopping support and help to rebuild their infrastructure.

Zelenskyy needs the EU to fund the war and possibly provide troops.

EU promises support, but nobodies writing billion dollar checks.

Putin knows this and now has a green light to finish the job. He has a windo of opportunity to light up Ukraine now that Zelenskyy walked away from the table with no support from anyone.

[equaviator]

I hesitate to theorize because I’m keenly aware of how quickly things can change...for better or worse.

[ChessExpert]

I’m just happy Trump is keeping us out of WWIII.

Sometimes I go back to old arguments and see how they fly. Decades ago, I conversed with a guy I thought of as “the office Democrat.” His cubicle looked like Democratic party headquarters. The Soviet Union had the Warsaw Pact back then. The office Democrat told me that Russia needed a buffer because it suffered from invasions from Napoleon and Hitler. So, the Democrat position was that Russia needed a 21 nation buffer.

Now, Democrats insist that Russia does not need any kind of buffer at all. For myself, I don’t think NATO needs to border Russia.

[Skooz]

bfl

[ChessExpert]

I saw a post on X. A picture of Zelensky with the caption “Leader of the Free World.” My immediate reply was “That’s what he thinks.”

I think Zelensky, Democrats, the MSM, and Europeans think they can intimidate President Trump. They were all in this together. I’m steamed.

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

he is kidnapping and consripting teenagers to fight
he is worth a billion dollars
he cancelled elections
he launders money for other nations

he is not the leader of the free world