Posted on 02/23/2025 6:08:06 PM PST by Its All Over Except ...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has charged that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is trying to “hustle” the US...
Rubio said the misrepresentation enraged him, Vice President JD Vance, and Russia and Ukraine special envoy Keith Kellogg after the trio met Zelensky at the Munich Security Conference last weekend and discussed the finer points of the $500 billion economic investment deal, which the Trump administration has described as a security guarantee to Kyiv.
"I was personally very upset,” the diplomat told independent journalist Catherine Herridge in a video interview posted on X Thursday night. “We discussed this issue about the mineral rights, and we explained to them, ‘Look, we want to be in joint venture with you, not because we’re trying to steal from your country, but because we think that’s actually a security guarantee.'”
Zelensky told the American trio that he wanted to make the deal happen and that it “makes all the sense in the world” — but needed to run it by Kyiv’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, for approval.
"I read two days later that Zelensky is out there saying, ‘I rejected the deal. I told him, “No way,” that we’re not doing that.’ That’s not what happened in that meeting,” Rubio said.
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Oh come onnnn, how can you not trust someone who is SO fabulous!
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGa8T0kRJBo/?igsh=dGpjdmt1eHBlOWow
1.) There’s the game here that Zelensky is playing.
2.) He also played a game of saying a substantial percentage of the aid given was never received or somehow disappeared.
3.) Then there’s the game of him saying it was a grant and not a loan, but where is the signed contract that proves his contention that it was a grant and not a loan?
4.) This agreement and partnership Rubio talked about is no different than NATO approaching a prospective, new member state, later on saying they would like to have a partnership, a security agreement, and will accept them as a member and protect them if they do a, b, and c in return.
If a prospective member says I don’t want your bases in my country, don’t want any foreign troops here, ever, etc, don’t want to do additional required things, they want a one-sided partnership and agreement.
In fact, it’s been the US which has practically been extorted by Europe as the US has borne the overwhelming burden for NATO, Trump wants the contribution percentage to go from 2% to 5%, and Europe howls over it.
Zelensky keeps thinking he’s in charge or something.
Comedian, dancer, piano player, now hustler, kind of does it all.
Psalm 37
Thanks for the Psalm, very appropriate.
Is Trump trying to squeeze Zelensky into ratting out Biden and others?
He thinks they are as stupid as the Biden entourage.
I hadn’t thought of that, but maybe. Wouldn’t it be GREAT?
They should walk away from this hustler.
Zelensky still doesn’t understand that theres a new sheriff and we aren’t mindlessly giving them money anymore.
“ Is Trump trying to squeeze Zelensky into ratting out Biden and others?”
Could be. What was Ryan Routh really doing in Ukraine?
Why was Zelinsky in PA:
House GOP investigates Zelenskyy’s Pennsylvania visit
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2024/09/24/congress/probing-zelenskyys-pa-visit-00180794
Why is a PA RINO calling Trump an extortionist?
Something fishy is going on……
Impossible to hate Z too much
Is Routh still alive?
What nobody's talking about - especially our dolt, establishment media - is Zelenski lost.
Losers in wars don't get to make demands.
Damned if I know. Maybe the CIA sent him to Ukraine again.
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