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Zelensky lashes out at European leaders: ‘Will Trump even notice you?’
The Telegraph ^ | 21 January 2025 | Joe Barnes and James Crisp

Posted on 01/21/2025 8:50:07 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

Volodymyr Zelensky has warned European leaders Donald Trump will ignore them if the continent doesn’t take better care of its own defences.

The Ukrainian president insisted the continent had to become more independent of Washington because there was no guarantee his American counterpart was committed to Nato.

“Will president Trump even notice Europe? Does he see Nato as necessary? And will he respect EU institutions?” Mr Zelensky asked in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

The wartime leader presented his scathing address as a wake-up call for European leaders, including in Britain and France, following Mr Trump’s inauguration on Monday.

Mr Zelensky argued that Europe had to do more to prove it could stand on its own feet and be a “strong global” player and “indispensable” on the world stage.

“Most of the world is now thinking: What is going to happen to our relationship with America, what will happen to alliances, to trade? How does President Trump want to end war?... But no one is asking these kind of questions about Europe,” he said.

“When we in Europe look at the US as our ally, it is clear they are an indispensable ally. In times of war, everyone worries will the US stay with them… But does anyone in the US worry that Europe might abandon them one day or might stop being their ally? The answer is no.”

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: European Union; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: beggarofkiev; davos; europe; littlehitler; volodymyrzelensky; zelensky; zestinky
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1 posted on 01/21/2025 8:50:07 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

US out of UN

US out of NATO


2 posted on 01/21/2025 8:51:42 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Z man is trying to shame people who have no shame.


3 posted on 01/21/2025 8:53:20 PM PST by rottweiller_inc (Lupus urbem intravit. Fulminis ictu vultures super turrem exanimati. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

I read that as “Trump isn’t going to give me money anymore so I have to get it from you idiots. Now think of me as your first line of defense so that it’s in your own self-interest to make up the money I was getting from Biden.”


4 posted on 01/21/2025 8:53:51 PM PST by mairdie
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To: MinorityRepublican
‘Will Trump even notice you?’

Only when he washes his hands of Ukraine and dumps the responsibility on the globalist clowns Starmer, Macron, and von der Leyen.

5 posted on 01/21/2025 8:54:17 PM PST by PGR88
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To: MinorityRepublican
“When we in Europe look at the US as our ally, it is clear they are an indispensable ally. In times of war, everyone worries will the US stay with them… But does anyone in the US worry that Europe might abandon them one day or might stop being their ally? The answer is no.”

He's not wrong.

6 posted on 01/21/2025 8:54:39 PM PST by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; telescope115
[US out of UN

US out of NATO]


Works for me.

NATO can fight "Global Warming" all by itself --- they could try launching Greta Thunberg towards the Sun....HOW DARE I!!!!

The Climate Doom Goblin


7 posted on 01/21/2025 8:54:49 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: MinorityRepublican
“Will president Trump even notice Europe? Does he see Nato as necessary? And will he respect EU institutions?” Mr Zelensky asked in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

No, no, and no.

The fact that Zelensky is giving this speech at the WEF in Davos tells you everything you need to know about the state of the US-Europe alliance.

And the EU will go bonkers when Trump announces his summit meeting with Putin shortly. They're actively trying to prevent it, but Trump doesn't care. He's going to do it anyway.

8 posted on 01/21/2025 8:56:27 PM PST by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: SaveFerris; kiryandil
Yeah, baby!


9 posted on 01/21/2025 9:01:41 PM PST by Allegra (Free our pardoned J6 hostages!)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

“The fact that Zelensky is giving this speech at the WEF in Davos tells you everything you need to know about the state of the US-Europe alliance.”

Says quite a bit about the Zeepers too.


10 posted on 01/21/2025 9:03:24 PM PST by BobL
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To: BobL

Yup.
I was trying to find a functional difference between the statements by two supposedly different people.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4291555/posts?page=30#30

https://x.com/harryjsisson/status/1881749220396499184?t=Bm8yMxs_BZ4u8Zzg8zqR2w&s=19


11 posted on 01/21/2025 9:07:25 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
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To: Allegra

I met a very nice (mostly) Russian woman (from UKRAINE BTW) about a month-and-a-half ago. She is from Odessa, IIRC.

She just wants the war to stop (taking lives). I agreed with her.


12 posted on 01/21/2025 9:11:08 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Zelensky’s days as the illegitimate puppet dictator of Ukraine are about to come to an inglorious end. His chief concern now is planning his exit strategy... not participating in the negotiating between President Trump and Putin. If Zelensky wants to get away with $Billions in ill-gotten gain he had better go along with whatever President Trump wants from him to make the kabuki theater look legitimate to the rest of the world.


13 posted on 01/21/2025 9:12:49 PM PST by fireman15 (Irritating people are the grit from which we fashion our pearl. I provide the grit. You're Welcome.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Volodymyr Zelensky has warned European leaders Donald Trump will ignore them if the continent doesn’t take better care of its own defences.”

The dirty little secret is the reason nobody in Europe is really very interested in large militaries. They actually face NO threats except the insane mass migration. The Russian military has hovered around 10% of the size it was during the Fulda Gap days and Russia wanted to sell them gas and import things the Euros make... that’s it.

Europe is only interested in the military to the extent they can sell arms internationally. That’s it....

In a sane world, Europe would be forbidden a military beyond a small constabulary force, a coast guard, and cargo/patrol planes.
No tanks, no arty, no fighters, no Navy, no attack helos, nothing.


14 posted on 01/21/2025 9:17:01 PM PST by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: SaveFerris
She just wants the war to stop (taking lives). I agreed with her

I agree too and I’ve said it many times on here.

The zeepers always bark their usual “Russian troll!” “Putinista!” and other knee-jerk responses out of the handbook when I express that.

It’s like pushing a button.

It’s kinda funny. 😏

15 posted on 01/21/2025 9:17:21 PM PST by Allegra (Free our pardoned J6 hostages!)
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To: Allegra

stopityerkillinme


16 posted on 01/21/2025 9:24:06 PM PST by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: MinorityRepublican
It's time for Zelensky to take the same road as Joe Biden into history.
17 posted on 01/21/2025 9:28:44 PM PST by McGruff (Trump: Joe Biden will go down in history as the worst president ever.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

If Trump doesn’t get what he wants on Greenland then he can tell Denmark “ok, you take care of Europe for us, it’s not our problem anymore”.


18 posted on 01/21/2025 9:43:27 PM PST by Degaston
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
US out of UN
US out of NATO
Yes!

I wouldn't call Zelenskyy's latest pronouncement "lashing out" exactly. I only wonder who is feeding him his lines.

19 posted on 01/21/2025 9:43:38 PM PST by Salman (In Hell it is a punishable offense not to call it Heaven.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Zelinskyy is correct that Americans don’t worry about needing Europe. Our biggest threats are radical Islam, radical Dems, and radical Cartels.


20 posted on 01/21/2025 9:46:09 PM PST by Degaston
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