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Trump tells Zelensky he’s ‘gambling with WWIII’ in heated, high-stakes Oval Office meeting
The New York Post ^ | Feb. 28, 2025, 1:14 p.m. ET | Steven Nelson and Diana Glebova

Posted on 02/28/2025 12:29:16 PM PST by Texas Fossil

WASHINGTON — President Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that he was “gambling with World War III” during a fiery Oval Office exchange Friday — before canceling a press conference and declaring that the wartime leader was “not ready for peace.”

The high-stakes visit — initially expected to include the signing of a framework deal giving the US a stake in Ukraine’s rare-earth elements — went off the rails when Zelensky seemed to condescend Vice President JD Vance.

“What kind of diplomacy, JD, you are [sic] speaking about?” Zelensky asked in a critical tone of voice after a relatively cordial first 45 minutes conversation in front of reporters — responding to the VP’s criticism of former President Joe Biden’s management of the war and statement that “the path to peace and the path to prosperity is maybe engaging in diplomacy.”

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Ukraine
KEYWORDS: inviteputin; littlezimplodes; ovaloffice; trump; vance; zelensky
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Zelensky argued and walked.

Left empty handed, facing total defeat.

Will we break with NATO? and EU?

The war must END.

1 posted on 02/28/2025 12:29:16 PM PST by Texas Fossil
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To: Texas Fossil

before Trump became president this time, I said, my family, even if he doesn’t accomplish anything, at least it’s going to be really interesting, really entertaining. Trump has not disappointed. Are you not entertained?!!


2 posted on 02/28/2025 12:31:28 PM PST by Strict9
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To: Texas Fossil

Everyone will hate Zalinsky by night fall.


3 posted on 02/28/2025 12:32:33 PM PST by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: Texas Fossil

Trump needs to invite Putin to the White House.

Make a mineral deal with him.


4 posted on 02/28/2025 12:32:57 PM PST by NoLibZone (Scary that a party can "run" a candidate that doesn't feel any need to campaign.)
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To: Strict9

Trump needs to work with Congress to change laws.

The clock is ticking.


5 posted on 02/28/2025 12:33:16 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Texas Fossil

Did Zelensky called Vice President J.D.Vance a “JD”? If yes, that’s not appropriate. At all...


6 posted on 02/28/2025 12:34:08 PM PST by exinnj
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were is the money z...
https://twitter.com/i/status/1895547173246484808


7 posted on 02/28/2025 12:36:56 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Texas Fossil

The goal should be a neutral, independent Ukraine.

Perhaps 20 years out pleblicities for Russian held areas to vote on rejoining Ukraine. That way Ukraine has 20 years to make itself attractive.


8 posted on 02/28/2025 12:37:36 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: exinnj

I don’t think J D Vanced cares about what you call him. He is showing his total support for President Trump’s view of the situation.

Zelensky cannot save the Ukraine, Trump’s credibility offers a change to end the war.

NATO and the EU are threatening going their own way. They do not have an effective military without the USA.

End Trans.


9 posted on 02/28/2025 12:40:04 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Texas Fossil

How are those Biden crime family deals working out for him?


10 posted on 02/28/2025 12:40:16 PM PST by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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To: NoLibZone

They have already discussed that.


11 posted on 02/28/2025 12:40:39 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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Need a pro to decipher it. They were totally off script, maybe something was said.

Z was the most inappropriate. Trump was ready to floor him if he even flinched to get up. And Vance just kept beating him with that ball bat, while Trump reloaded. Then Trump laid down the law and told him exactly how it was.

This is better than “Blue Dress Monica”. I am pleasantly entertained.


12 posted on 02/28/2025 12:41:12 PM PST by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: Texas Fossil

13 posted on 02/28/2025 12:42:02 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Texas Fossil

Zalensky is trapped. Russia wants to bury Ukraine. The US wants our money back

Ronaldus Magnus used to say about deals “A half loaf of bread is better than no bread”

Z needs to evaluate from whom he wants bread or no bread. His call.


14 posted on 02/28/2025 12:42:05 PM PST by llevrok (Keep buggering on!)
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To: Delta 21

Not everyone, the EU and NATO want to keep sucking the teets of the USA.

They fully intend to destroy us by bleeding our system.

Trump refuses to accept that. He has a plan to recover our financial situation.

I believe it will work.

I see nothing else, except total defeat of Ukraine.


15 posted on 02/28/2025 12:43:26 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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Everyone will hate Zalinsky by night fall.

Not the Brits, I am monitoring the comment section of Daily Telegraph and it is 70 per cent pro-Zelensky.

And the Telegraph is supposedly pro-conservative.

They have seemed to conflate Trump Derangement Syndrome with Putin Derangement Syndrome and somehow ended up favorably viewing Starmer which a month ago would have been unimaginable.

16 posted on 02/28/2025 12:43:55 PM PST by Biblebelter
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To: NoLibZone

Already happened.


17 posted on 02/28/2025 12:44:04 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Texas Fossil

Is it too late to add Zelensky’s name to the Epstein logs?


18 posted on 02/28/2025 12:44:06 PM PST by NoLibZone (Scary that a party can "run" a candidate that doesn't feel any need to campaign.)
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To: llevrok

Apparently, the one piece you are missing is that Z already signed the mineral rights deal away to the very effeminate leaders of the UK, France, and Germany (cutting the US out).

If that’s true, just wow.


19 posted on 02/28/2025 12:44:11 PM PST by RinaseaofDs (Imagine what we'll know tomorrow.)
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To: Biblebelter

Britain is irrelevant.


20 posted on 02/28/2025 12:44:29 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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