Trump – not Zelensky – is Ukraine’s only hope

The Spectator ^ | 2-25-25 | Oleksiy Kosach

[bimboeruption]

From the article: "Zelensky’s authoritarian instincts were already becoming clear even before Putin’s invasion. As early as 2019, I listened as he demanded propaganda from his subordinates to flood the media with praise when his policies failed. Today, he has achieved that: a vast army of voices branding him the face of democracy and the very embodiment of Ukraine itself."

Zeepers?

[BipolarBob]

Help me, Obi-Wan Trump, you're our only hope.

[bimboeruption]

>>>>Help me, Obi-Wan Trump, you’re our only hope.<<<<

President Trump is more concerned about the people of Ukraine than Zelensky.

Trump IS their only hope.

[Fuzz]

‘ President Trump is more concerned about the people of Ukraine than Zelensky.’

Surrendering the country to Russia after being invaded is helping your country?

[bimboeruption]

Ending the war and restoring democracy can preserve Ukraine.

Zelensky has thrown up every obstacle he can to derail peace talks.

Every day he shoves more of his fellow Ukrainians into the meat grinder. Their lives mean nothing to him. If they did, he’d work toward peace.

[SoConPubbie]

Surrendering the country to Russia after being invaded is helping your country?

Continuing the war until it becomes a nuclear conflagration is helping your country?

[Fuzz]

How would surrendering to Russia restore democracy?

[Allegra]

Every day he shoves more of his fellow Ukrainians into the meat grinder. Their lives mean nothing to him. If they did, he’d work toward peace.

That, right there. 👆👆👆

[montag813]

Thousands of Ukrainian men have paid bribes – tens of thousands of dollars – to flee the only European country with sealed borders for men of conscription age. Those who remain live in fear, wary of stepping outside lest they be seized off the streets, in cafés, or in shops – dragged into vans and sent to the front lines. Some of the latest draftees are disabled or chronically ill. Many receive little or no training before deployment. Increasingly, their fates are sealed in recruitment offices as officers wait to be bribed. Wives, girlfriends, daughters, and mothers now take on traditionally male jobs, scraping together whatever earnings they can to bribe officials, desperate to secure exemptions for their loved ones and for young men before they reach conscription age. Yet those with the right government connections are free from conscription and enjoy unrestricted freedom of movement.

Damn.

[Biblebelter]

Well stated.

Ukraine has become a paradox: a nation fighting for its sovereignty while dismantling its own democratic foundations. For years, the West has indulged in the illusion of Zelensky as the ‘face of democracy’. In reality, he has undermined our democracy, institutions and economy, making Ukraine much weaker in the face of an existential threat – and in the process destroying our nation’s motivation to fight the Russian aggressor.

[SoConPubbie]

How would surrendering to Russia restore democracy?

You have to have a country left in order to "restore democracy".

Furthermore, you can't have a democracy without elections, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech.

[mass55th]

I wonder how many U.S. taxpayer dollars Oleksiy Kosach put in his pocket these past four years.

[Harpotoo]

Ukes want no elections according to a, lol, gallop poll from Last Year, lol,-)

[bimboeruption]

>>>>How would surrendering to Russia restore democracy?<<<<

Who’s talking “surrender”?

Not President Trump. He’s talking “cease fire” and “peace talks”, but the smuf nazi doesn’t want to hear it.

[bimboeruption]

>>>>Ukes want no elections according to a, lol, gallop poll from Last Year, lol,-)<<<<

Is there a poll anywhere in the world that isn’t skewed?

[cpdiii]

The reality of war.

Young men and women take up arms on both sides, mostly men. Both sides at an infantry level are innocent and mere pawns. They die on each side. They see their brothers and sisters in arms die and become transformed into killing machines capable of extremism, great extremism and cruelty in war. My Lai was not and accident, it was the insanity of war. We killed with abandon and many innocents though it was a Viet Cong village. That village had killed us. We killed them and many innocents. It no longer becomes God, Nation and duty. It becomes kill they enemy that killed my brother in war.

That is the ugly reality of war. A good man or woman can be transformed into a total killing machine with out morality nor conscious when they have their comrades in war fall in battle. They do have a family back home. In war their only family is the person next to them with a rifle.

[Jan_Sobieski]

The homoerotic dancer is a tyrant? Color me shocked /s

[blitz128]

I am a life long republican, but……

Long live anonymous sources 😎

[trebb]

I think his wanting mineral rights is a smart move - if we have Americans working to get these resources, any attacks on them will be attacks on us - and I doubt Russia wants to open that can of worms...

[Sirius Lee]

Ukraine has become a paradox: a nation fighting for its sovereignty while dismantling its own democratic foundations.

So, no different than the EU. Ukraine, in its reduced size, will be a perfect addition to it. Still not America's circus.