Posted on 03/24/2025 8:32:35 PM PDT by Kazan
The US-Russia-Ukraine Peace Process is ongoing with meetings of technical level between American and Russians in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, one day after the Trump negotiators had a meeting with the Ukrainian team all dressed in military attire – a very explicit sign.
Today, also, the PR golden boy of the West, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky, is getting ‘canonized’ in the USAID media with another major puff piece in the Times magazine, a globalist rag where he was elected person of the year in 2022.
The Time piece runs 4500+ words long, and it’s of such a nature that makes boastful Zelensky and his grey eminence Andriy Yermak look quite humble in comparison.
The article gushes over the fact that in the back of his ‘chambers’, there is a space that ‘feels like home to Zelensky’ – a small room with a single bed and a painting showing the Kremlin engulfed in flames.
The article totally pities the Kiev regime’s leader, and we see things like: ‘Among the most painful exchanges in the Oval Office meeting took place near the end, when Zelensky asked whether J.D. Vance had visited Ukraine during the war. They both knew he had not, and Vance shot back that he had no interest in Zelensky’s ‘propaganda tours’.”
The article repeats some Ukrainian propaganda – that Kiev resisted and heroically repelled a Russian siege at the start of the war, when in fact Putin ordered troops to withdraw during the Istanbul negotiations as an act of good faith.
During a celebration near Kiev, the reporter reflects: ‘Maybe Vance had a point. It can be hard to hold the line between solemnity and propaganda’.
A lot of time is devoted to the repercussion for Zelensky setting himself on fire in the Oval Office: “The next day, Trump set the minerals deal aside and decided to get tough with Zelensky. His administration announced a suspension of aid to Ukraine, including supplies of critical intelligence, weapons and ammunition. Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine, General Keith Kellogg, said the Ukrainians had ‘brought it on themselves’. Zelensky had failed in the Oval Office to demonstrate a willingness to accept Trump’s plan for peace, and the U.S. response was ‘sort of like hitting a mule with a two-by-four across the nose’, Kellogg said. ‘Got their attention’.”
It’s a complete softball profile, in which ‘Zelensky declined to pin the blame on the Trump administration’ for the crumbling of the Kursk pocket. Because, of course, the reporter does.
But then we get where things get more complicated and Zelensky says things he will wish he hadn’t: “What bothered Zelensky most about Trump’s role in that operation had less to do with intelligence sharing than with Russian disinformation. In the middle of the battle, Trump held a call with Putin, who told the U.S. president that thousands of Ukrainian troops in Kursk had been surrounded by Russian forces. ‘That was a lie’, Zelensky told me. But Trump continued to amplify it.
For Zelensky, it looked like part of a pattern. U.S. officials, he says, had begun taking Putin at his word, even when their own intelligence contradicted him. ‘I believe Russia has managed to influence some people on the White House team through information’, Zelensky told me. ‘Their signal to the Americans was that the Ukrainians do not want to end the war, and something should be done to force them’.”
Let’s repeat the fairly serious accusation: ‘I believe Russia has managed to influence some people on the White House team through information’.
Start the countdown until he has to walk this back.
Ten days after Zelensky’s tantrum, US and Ukrainian senior aides met for a round of talks in Saudi Arabia. The meeting lasted nine hours.
Andriy Yermak: “The Americans did not grandstand or make demands. They took the time to listen to the Ukrainians recount the history of the war and the battles fought along the way to the present moment. Several hours into the talks, Yermak and his team placed a call to Zelensky and asked for instructions. He told them to agree to a ceasefire with no preconditions. In some ways, it was another massive climbdown. Zelensky has spent the entire war demanding security guarantees from the Americans and concessions from the Russians. Now nearly all of his demands had been set aside. Yermak admitted this was difficult. ‘But we have to be pragmatic. We have to move step by step’, he told me. ‘This is not the moment for idealism’.”
Zelensky also makes a troubling statement about a man in love with his pretense popularity: “As Trump continues to push for peace, Zelensky intends to influence the process by making direct appeals to American voters. No doubt he agreed to give me an interview in part for that reason. But he also acknowledges that, without winning over Trump himself, he has little chance of securing a stable peace.”
Another propaganda point is pushed hard: ‘While Zelensky has given ground and made concessions, the Russian demands have only grown more extreme’. But in fact, Zelensky is repeatedly breaking the partial ceasefire he agreed to, targeting Russian oil facilities.
Zelensky: “If he wants to, Trump can squeeze concessions from the Russians, because he seems to be the only one that Putin fears. At points in the peace process, when the U.S. threatened to sanction the Kremlin for its continued bombing raids against Ukraine, ‘the Russians got really scared’.”
one day after the Trump negotiators had a meeting with the Ukrainian team all dressed in military attire – a very explicit sign.
That is a Zelinsky Uke flex against Trump for joking about not wearing a suit. Mocking Trump and his team, this Zelinsky is a real sharp cat!
For such a needle dick, he has a high opinion of himself. And he can try to appeal directly to American voters, but he is going to get mostly the middle finger.
And Trump isn't going to change his mind on this. So, the slaughter will continue until Zelensky is hung up like Mussolini by the people is is ruling over.
Zelenski is Noriega.
Trump has Zelensky under control according to pravda:
https://news-pravda.com/img/20250324/0eed71f274ac5a038e9bb332b46a515f_o.jpg
They need to stop taking advice from Susan Rice and Victoria Nuland. The fake narratives of before are not en vogue now.
Z thinks this is a good negotiation strategy? What a retard.
The information about thousands of troops being surrounded in Kursk came from Tulsi Gabbard and her NRO satellites, not from Putin.
Wow!
Zelensky’s words sound like they could be said by any of FreeRepublic’s Zeepers!!
Truth from any source is simply that.
All of the AFU might as well be surrounded... they do not move once deployed. Prior to Jan 24 and the FABs they could sit in NATO designed defensive positions and cities. Now they are killed by long range weapons, and once the AFU cannot maintain the manpower necessary (in the kill zones) only then does Russia advance.
The failure to embrace fire and maneuver tactics vice being sitting ducks never ceding an inch has been Zelinski’s forced error.
By Summer 25, the AFU will not have the logistical vehicles or personnel to stop the Russians.
Russia has been patient and mostly careful to utilize overwhelming bombardment instead of attrition assaults because most soldiers are volunteers. Ukraine has wasted the 2-1 manpower advantage enjoyed thru 2023 and has gradually been reduced to a Russian 3-1 advantage.
When this summer arrives their will be collaspes in the AFU at over 80 identifiable local frontline sites. With no reserves, having fed it all forward, the AFU will give up a quarter or more of what they now retain.
Zelinski will have returned 70% of 1991 Ukraine to Russia thru his instrangance and arrogance.
Trump will break the DNC, the EU, and globalists and socialism in America by the controlled destruction of Ukraine by allowing Zelinski his wishes.
Not exactly a recipe for winning friends and influencing people.
Or just watch some video of Ukie soldiers who made it out describing their 'retreat' from Kursk...something that rat Zelenski should try doing.
It’s great to finally have a president who will tell the truth and avoid the US media war propaganda.Even Fox and Newsmax spew the globalist agenda.
“Zelensky’s words sound like they could be said by any of FreeRepublic’s Zeepers!!”
The trick now is to dump on Vance, Hegseth, and Gabbard, not Trump himself. They’re all pretending to be big Trump supporters.
Again, Trump simply needs to walk away. He’s kept a lot of campaign promises, more than any President I can think of. It’s OK if he can’t fix this conflict. Lots of stuff like the Houthi problems has flared recently.
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