Posted on 03/01/2025 10:51:21 PM PST by McGruff
It’s become routine since Russia invaded Ukraine: President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speak by phone whenever the U.S. announces a new package of military assistance for Kyiv.
But a phone call between the two leaders in June played out differently from previous ones, according to four people familiar with the call. Biden had barely finished telling Zelenskyy he’d just greenlighted another $1 billion in U.S. military assistance for Ukraine when Zelenskyy started listing all the additional help he needed and wasn’t getting. Biden lost his temper, the people familiar with the call said. The American people were being quite generous, and his administration and the U.S. military were working hard to help Ukraine, he said, raising his voice, and Zelenskyy could show a little more gratitude.
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That Zelensky is a difficult, unpleasant little person. It must suck to work on his staff.
Was that the time Biden threatened to not give Zelenskyy a billion American taxpayer dollars if he didn’t fire the guy looking into Hunter’s involvement with Burisma? Or is my mind playing tricks with me?
Oh, but good news! Europe is going to step in and help him with 250 billion euros, along with security and support. That must be boots on the ground. That is nice.
I’m shocked that NBC reported this story.
Firstly, it’s an anti-Zelensky story.
But it is also a pro Biden story, in that it makes it appear as if he was really in charge.
Not only that it makes it appear as Joey cared about fiscal responsibility when no one has thrown around gubmint money more capriciously than he did.
Very curious story.
Zelenski is reported to be very pushy. Funny, but no one mentions his ethnicity. Why is that?
Biden AI?
bttt
“Very curious story.”
I agree. I don’t believe it at all.
If you are responsible for millions of people during a total war you had better be “pushy”. Many lives are at stake, on every word.
Your mind is playing tricks on you.
The incident you're describing occurred in 2015 (four years before Zelensky became President) when Biden was Vice President. Biden demanded that Ukrainian authorities fire prosecutor Viktor Shokin or he would withhold $1 billion in foreign aid.
"Well, the son of a bitch got fired!"
-PJ
Can’t you just imagine a conversation between Slow, Demented Joe and that insufferable little twerp?
Thank you for posting this! I was sickened to see the MSM quoting ‘33 TIMES ZELENSKY THANKED THE US!’ without mentioning how many times he demanded more money, begged, threatened, whined etc.
I'm not. They're trying to make Joe look like he had all his faculties, and could be as tough as President Trump. It's all smoke and mirrors. Joe was probably lashing out at one of the White House staff members while he was on the phone with Zelensky, because they brought him the wrong flavor of ice cream.
First of all, it's not a total war. It's a proxy war with Russia that U.S. taxpayers have been funding for the past four years. Billions of dollars have been sent, that can't be account for.
Secondly, if Zelensky was so concerned about the lives of his fellow Ukrainians, he would have asked his people if they wanted to continue the war by holding elections so all those people he is responsible for, could have a say in what happens to them.
You sound like Zelensky's Hollywood agent promoting him for a role.
Zelensky’s annoying phone call demanded more tax dollars (Oct 2022)
Coincided w/ the time then-VP Biden exercised his political clout for his crackhead son.....
threatening to withhold Congressionally-appropriated “foreign aid”......a billion tax dollars........
if Zelensky didn’t fire the guy looking into Hunter’s crooked involvement with Burisma.
I don’t think you are making much of an effort to try on other mens shoes. Get on your airplane, climb to 50,000 feet, and lose your ego while looking down. Perspective helps.
Blackmail target sometimes do things like this but almost always cave as Crime Boss Joey did - why not it wasn’t his money he was paying Lil Z with it was ours.
If it truly was Biden who became upset - sorta unlikely, IMO - it would’ve been entirely self-serving. Any angst displayed would be over the optics of uncontrolled $$$ and assets giveaways that could result in a negative impact on the mood of the electorate.
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