Posted on 02/19/2025 9:21:11 AM PST by bimboeruption
US President Donald Trump called Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky “a dictator,” escalating a public war of words between the two leaders that started when Trump falsely accused Ukraine of starting the war with Russia.
Trump’s accusation, posted on his social media network Truth Social, came just hours after Zelensky accused him of repeating Russian disinformation.
Speaking to reporters in Kyiv, Zelensky pushed back on several unfounded claims the US president made on Tuesday, while reinforcing Ukraine’s position that a deal to end the war needed its involvement.
“Unfortunately, President Trump – I have great respect for him as a leader of a nation that we have great respect for, the American people who always support us – unfortunately lives in this disinformation space,” Zelensky said.
Trump has made it clear he wants the war to end as soon as possible – even if it means further territorial losses for Ukraine. And much to the horror of Kyiv and its allies, Trump has at times adopted Kremlin’s narrative and blamed Ukraine and NATO for the conflict, even saying that Ukraine “may be Russian some day.”
But Trump’s boosting of Russia goes well beyond rhetoric. The president raised many eyebrows last week when opting to hold a 90-minute phone call with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin before speaking to Zelensky.
Then on Tuesday, US and Russian officials held high-level talks on ending the war in Ukraine in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, excluding Kyiv from the meeting.
Putin praised this new US attitude towards his country. Speaking about the talks in Riyadh, Putin said he was told the atmosphere was “friendly.”
“There were completely different people on the American side, who were open to the negotiation process without any bias, without any condemnation of what had been done in the past,”...
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President Trump is right on target as usual. Zelensky is a dictator.
Z is a dictator. Full oligarcic control, cancelled elections....
He’d have been gone if he wasn’t paying off the Biden crime family.
Your screen name applies to Zelensky speeches .
DOGE audit the guy and everyone around him. A peace condition we impose on Ukraine should be full audit access.
It’s comical to watch the amazement when a nazi government acts obnoxious.
Trump fully realizes the reality of the situation and that the future is cooperation with Russia - not the mutant 2014 DC/Brussels neocon version of Ukraine.
He has much greater plans beyond this. Its first a PR attempt to repair the US Govt image in Russia.
Most importantly though, he’s attempting to restore the 50 year-old common-sense Nixon strategic doctrine of keeping Russia and China at arms-length.
The corrupt, idiot neocons in DC, who slavishly followed the London-Brussels globalist line, nearly destroyed that policy.
DT’s Truth Social post was priceless.
Ya, i heard this on the news.
“disinformation space” is a euphemism that refers to someone who tells the truth that militates against the lie that’s being perpetrated. Trump is exposing the naked truth and they’re not liking it one bit. Trump should continue to operate in the ‘disinformation space’ until everyone understands who’s lying here. And then send Elon in to get to the sources of their finances to determine the why.
I guess you could call him a dictator. He was elected. But he cancelled elections. But he still has his parliaments support? Its not black and white.
But he wouldnt be the first dictator we supported either. The Shah of Iran, and later Saddam Hussein, are examples where we supported dictators when it served national interests.
During the cold war, national interests were more clear. Stop the communist aggression. I’ll let you debate what the threats and national interests are today. But its childish to reduce the serious conflicts in the world to simple name calling.
None of that is to say the Biden regime was right or CNN is real news.
Z is dead meat hanging.
Azov needs another stooge.
You happen to have a transcript, please post it.
Funny how Actor Z changed his tune after glad handing Lindsey and the Senate Grifters.
I read that it was actually Zs idea, originally, for US to have their rare earth minerals.
This nonsense he is now spewing sounds like it was written by Graham and Cornyn staffers...who are living in complete fear that their grift/laundering operation is not only about to stop ... but, also about to be completely exposed.
Any response from all the Ukie war cheerleaders? Any rebuttal from the St Z worshippers?
Your bunch has been awful quiet lately.
I can see all now, Zelensky laid to rest.
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Trump angry with Zelensky, which means Z is toast. Europe has its collective thumb up its nether region. Putin and Trump will have to solve it all.
There are good dictators and bad dictators. Saddam was a useful dictator to USA because he kept radical islamists in prison. Removing him from power was a blunder of huge proportions, with rise of ISIS and destabilizing entire middle-east.
Europeans had four years to fix this with Biden in the White House, and they just lolligagged.
Its funny the same ones who scream CEASE FIRE IN GAZA, GIVE HAMAS EVERYTHING THEY WANT, want the war in Ukraine to continue FOREVER..I mean if all Putin is asking for in order to get a cease fire is to have an election in Ukraine whats the problem..hey I thought Ukraine is a DEMOCRACY, can you imagine if Trump had said during covid “We are in a pandemic, its not safe to go outside, people are dying, so I am going to postpone the election indefinitely til the virus is gone” what the reaction of the commies would have been they would have rioted, they would have called Trump a dictator and they would have been right..you have an election regardless of what is going on..and the ONLY reason why Zelenskyy doesn’t want one is because he knows he will LOSE..otherwise whats the problem, have an election, maybe he will win in a landslide who knows, no one has EVER asked the Ukrainian people what they want
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