Trump takes swipe at Zelensky’s leadership
“Zelensky better move fast or he is not going to have a country left,” US President Donald Trump says in a post on Truth Social.
Labelling Zelensky “a dictator”, Trump writes: “I love Ukraine, but Zelensky has done a terrible job, his country is shattered, and MILLIONS have unnecessarily died.”
Trump says in the meantime, the US is “successfully negotiating an end to the war with Russia”.
For context: Zelensky’s presidential term expired last May, however Ukraine has been under martial law since the Russian invasion in February 2022, which means presidential elections are suspended.
We’re getting something back from Defending Ukraine, we’re getting a solid, stable democracy in a former Eastern Block state, AND we’re getting less of the “Putin Dictatorship” to deal with. The billions we’ve spent on aid are WORTH THE COST if it means there is a 1 fewer dictator to content with.
We aren’t giving away money for an Ukraine today, we’re investing in a secure future for tomorrow.
Hell, most of the aid we’ve sent is weapons specifically designed to kill Russians. They were mostly old weapons anyway.
“aid we’ve sent” this language doesn’t explain to the brainwashed that this is money in our pockets.
When we “send 1 billion in aid”, it usually means the US govt bought $1B of weapons from an American manufacturer and is delivering it to Ukraine.
That isn’t $1B for Ukraine, it’s $1B for us and $1B worth of guns for Ukraine.
By “in our pockets” yes, it might go to some Americans, but you’re largely talking about taking it out of the taxes of all Americans and giving it to the 0.1%.
Those American weapons manufacturers and their inverstors are already beyond incredibly wealthy.
It’s always something with yall isn’t it?
Lockheed Martin’s profit margin is something like 3%. The supply chain for the stuff they build Is the definition of “good factory job”
None of that 97% cost goes outside of the US
You’re right. Lockheed Martin’s CEO only makes a very reasonable $21,516,613 salary, 191 times their median salary. Your taxes hard at work.
Too bad they have that picture of Zelensky with all the money on his desk so every time I say this they just point to that as a means of discrediting me. There is no reasoning here. We are post-consesus reality now.
In a sense, this is a cold-war era issue, so Cold War weapons probably will do just fine, with the exception of aircraft. I would send every aircraft we can to Ukraine cause 1) They’re expensive 2) We’re already paid for them, might as well see what they can do.
The right doesn’t understand that money spent stabilizing things elsewhere ends up saving money locally. That includes actual aid to poor countries, like condoms going to a country with an AIDS epidemic!
Zelinsky is in a really bad spot here. He’s almost entirely dependent on US assistance to even fight the war, and has to defend himself from attacks from the person he directly relies on for that assistance without pissing him off and causing him to cut off aid because his fee-fees are hurt. Trump could cut US support at any time and there’s nothing that Zelinsky could do about it.
That said, I’m actually surprised that Trump is still even pretending to support Ukraine, when it’s been long established that his plan all along has been to hand Ukraine over to Russia on Russia’s terms. There was an article I posted sometime back which was removed by the mods because the source was considered “questionable” and the article sounded like Russian propaganda, but it’s mostly turning out to be true. The article said:
- The plan doesn’t take effect until Easter, allowing Russia to continue making land grabs until that point.
- Ukraine cedes all Russia-occupied territory to Russia.
- Ukraine cedes all Ukraine-occupied Russian territory back to Russia.
- Ukraine cedes even more land to form a DMZ between Ukraine and Russia to be manned by Europe.
- Ukraine is permanently banned from joining NATO
- Neither NATO or US troops will serve as a deterrent to either prevent or respond to a Russian attack should Russia decide to attack again.
- .
It couldn’t have been more lopsided if it also added a clause saying Putin gets to fuck Zelinsky’s wife. The Easter Deadline that Trump wants has already been confirmed, and Hegseth all but confirmed the rest of it. I’m sure that Trump is just hoping that Zelinsky will just roll over and go along with the plan, but Trump’s position is pretty obvious: Either Zelinsky surrenders unconditionally or Trump is just going to hand the country over to Putin anyway.
Why do you think that he is almost entirely dependent on the POTUS? The EU is sending more aid, by the way.
Right, but there’s two problems with that. One is that support for Ukraine isn’t nearly as strong in some European countries, especially those countries who are more reliant on trade with Russia. The other is that the EU itself has traditionally under-funded its own military and relied on US support. This means that not only do they not have the resources to give, they can’t give all that much without weakening what defense they do have. The EU simply can’t support Ukraine at anywhere near US levels even if it wants to, and even with US support, Ukraine has been starting to lose ground. Ukraine cannot sustain the war without US support, regardless of how much support the EU is able to give.
So the EU supports them more… and you know that… but here we are, you tell us they CANT be anywhere near the USA…? Do I get that right? What am I missing?
Losing ground at absurdly slow pace where Russia would win the war in 200 years with 100 million dead. They run out of everything already, what are they supposed to fight with in a year?
Of course he does. He does follow Putins commands by parroting Russian propaganda.
I never considered WWIII with the US and Russia on one-side and Europe on the other.
I think we’d have a civil war before that would happen.
You’re fucking right about that one.
Who says we can’t have both?
US and Russia on one side, US, Europe and Canada on the other.
As an American I will say, I stand on guard for thee.
Secession of the Pacific states first?
The dream of Cascadia.
Always preferred Pacific States of America (PSA) over Cascadia
None of this seems to make sense. Also what does he mean when he puts his name in quotes and all caps?
It means his brain is pudding.
Didn’t know that about Zelensky (his term ended but he’s still “in charge”). I have no idea how bad things really are over there but I would hope that even if the US was in the midst of a war we’d cobble together the will and resources to keep our democracy chugging along. Zelensky is actually following the law however – Ukrainian elections are not to proceed under martial law.
The Trump administration is nothing if not lying and hypocritical. I’d say a war suspending the 2026 or 2028 elections is in the running for the “free space” on a bingo card.
Edit: context on Ukraine’s constitution
They’re in the middle of an invasion by an expansionist world power. How are they going to hold a free and fair election throughout the country?
Pot and kettle
Trump: “no, u.”
