On Wednesday, President Trump called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a “dictator” who has done a “terrible job” as the two leaders are trading barbs amid renewed US diplomacy with Russia.
“Think of it, a modestly successful comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, talked the United States of America into spending $350 Billion Dollars, to go into a War that couldn’t be won, that never had to start, but a War that he, without the US and ‘TRUMP,’ will never be able to settle,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
The post came after Zelensky said Trump was living in a “disinformation space” in response to his criticism of Ukraine not holding elections and for not reaching a deal with Russia earlier in the war or before the invasion. “I would like to have more truth with the Trump team,” Zelensky said.
Trump also brought up the lack of elections in Ukraine in his post on Truth Social. “On top of this, Zelenskyy admits that half of the money we sent him is ‘MISSING.’ He refuses to have Elections, is very low in Ukrainian Polls, and the only thing he was good at was playing Biden ‘like a fiddle.’ A Dictator without Elections, Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left,” he said.
Trump said his administration was currently “successfully negotiating an end” to the war in Ukraine. US and Russian officials agreed on Tuesday during talks in Saudi Arabia to work to normalize diplomatic relations and toward an end to the war.
“Biden never tried, Europe has failed to bring Peace, and Zelenskyy probably wants to keep the “gravy train” going. I love Ukraine, but Zelenskyy has done a terrible job, his Country is shattered, and MILLIONS have unnecessarily died – And so it continues,” Trump said.
Vice President JD Vance also took aim at Zelensky over his criticism of President Trump. “The idea that Zelensky is going to change the president’s mind by badmouthing him in public media — everyone who knows the president will tell you that is an atrocious way to deal with this administration,” Vance said.
Zelensky a ‘Dictator’ No. Not this kid.
Zelensky did just what he was ordered to do, by Biden and Blinken.
Trump would have done it right ever single time, that is what hindsight tells him. He never made mistakes, as always, Jonny did it.
He can solve anything, even the question of what came before the big bang.
So omnipotent.
I hope your joking
Your hopes are so perceptive.
Donald Trump doesn't read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.
If you spell DONALD TRUMP in Scrabble, you win. Forever.
The dinosaurs looked at Donald Trump the wrong way once. You know what happened to them.
Donald Trump's tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried.
Donald Trump once Executive Ordered so fast his pen broke the speed of light.
The chief export of Donald Trump is winning.
If paper beats rock, rock beats scissors, and scissors beats paper, what beats all 3 at the same time? Donald Trump.
(with apologies to Chuck Norris)
Someone once told Donald Trump that God created the universe in 6 days. Trump replied: "I could have done it in 4 days…. no problem. But I would have done it better. Much better. There are so many things that are bad. I would have done it without the bad things. No bad things. In 4 days. I'm amazing. Truly amazing."
Kings and gods don't make mistakes.
And others in his own country.
and mophead Boris Johnson.
He took it several steps further.
No elections.
No Russian language as one of the official languages.
Took a page from Trump by skimming off $$$ to his coffers, purchasing a nice vineyard in Italy, stashed the money in Central America.
There was no general election in the UK from 1935 to 1945.
In the Ukrainian constitution, what Zelenskyy is doing is perfectly legal, and he is doing nothing wrong
When countries get 20% of their land chunked off, they tend to declare martial law, and in Ukraine, elections are illegal under martial law
So stick a sock in it
Right or wrong, it looks like a sock will be firmly clogging up the gravy train.
That was also undemocratic of the UK at the time. What's your point ?
Zelenskiyy declared martial law. Which allowed him to remain president until such time as he rescinded martial law.
That's textbook conflict of interest.
Did you somehow get dumber when you moved to Poland from Ukraine and got your Disqus account banned here twice ??
its not a conflict of interest
It's incredible how both in the 1940s and now, some Ukrainians "fight Russia" to the east and north by… going west into Poland, where there are no Russians. In the 1940s, Ukrainian Waffen SS and Bandera-ist nutters "fought Russia" by murdering Jews and the wrong type of Catholic in… Poland (?!), and now we have a cadre of keyboard warriors in Warsaw, presumably looking for Putin.
"There was no general election in the UK from 1935 to 1945." Rather more to the point, why not reference Ukraine's ally/boss during the period, the Reich. How many elections did Hitler win in the 40s?
Bandera later became allied with the soviets, Well not allied with, but fought in tandem with
As soon as British voters had a chance to vote in 1945 they threw
Churchill and his conservative party out.
Thats because he was a better war leader than a peace leader, not because they disliked him
World War II had not officially ended when Churchill was voted out in July 1945. The War in the Pacific was still going on.
And to the end that was only america really
Britain was still fighting to get back their colonies in Singapore, Hong Kong and other parts of Southeast Asia.
Did the USA suspend elections during the civil war and was the Constitution of Ukraine ratified by the consent of the governed by way of duly elected representatives?
During the Civil War, the dixies didn't have any real potential to cause harm to voters and systems – aka, long rang missiles
You could have included "banning the Russian Orthodox Christian church", stripping ethnic Russian Ukrainians of pensions and government entitlements, scrubbing school curriculae of Russian history, shuttering ethnic Russo-Ukrainian news outlets…
…..jailing political opponents and banning opposition political parties.
Hey. Come on. Zelansky made his money through his musical talent. Playing piano with his xxxx.
How many elections were held in Britain during WW2?
Well, if you want to be technical about it,
I suppose.
In the eyes of many he is a great man. Neocons made of him a superstar. He is fabulously rich. He was met in U.S. Congress with standing ovations. But of course you are right, he did what he was ordered to do. However, it doesn't look as he is going to take orders from Trump. Trump is not so generous with American taxpayers' money as previous administration. Still there are Europeans who are involved in this game and are ready to pay. UK is particularly close to Kiev regime, though personally Zelensky is not of great value for them too. Maybe they would agree that it is time to change him for someone else. Zaluzhny, probably, would fit the best to the job. At the moment he is Ukrainian ambassador in UK.
As usual, Trump WILL say what the others will not … that's the secret to his success: authentic, crass, sometimes lying, but always "real".
And who could argue with the above? Z man is a dictator and clown playing for foreign audiences and the effect of his leadership has been misery and death for hundreds of thousands of his citizens and destruction of the nation.
I have a hard time believing Zelensky made any major decisions let alone believing that he's a dictator.
Oh, I dunno … people always have choices … though he may have been quickly eliminated after.
And that was my point. He would have been a dead man.
I think all the important decisions concerning Russia, he made them at the urging/orders of his Western handlers.
But I think they left him to run Ukraine mostly as he saw fit, and the only way was a dictatorship. Not a very good one, he's a comedian and junkie after all, but a dictatorship nevertheless. And it matters little to the citizen arrested for opposing the regime if they are thrown in jail competently or incompetently, the result is the same.
So, those Nazi's I've been hearing about for the last 3 years just let Zelensky run Ukraine as he sees fit? If the "Western handlers" didn't have the same goals as the Nazis, Zelensky would be dead.
Pooty is a dictator, but Russia Good! NATO bad!
Zelly is more of a dictator than Putin, which means your European NATO countries are hypocrites.
Oh yeah?
How
Read the news. I usually don't do homework for others.
You stated something, you should be able to prove it on your own, I shouldn't have to do it for you
Don't be lazy; have I given you misplaced credit for doing your own assignments. I don't need to prove facts to myself. You are the doubter.
Hey man, Christian Vila Disqus Account 3.0 can't do his university homework AND simple recent history at the same time ! Besides, he's been ignoring inconvenient facts for YEARS now, that's a lot to undo.
You talk a lot about this Christian Vila
Is your love purely romantic?
I get my kicks above the waistline, Sunshine.
True.
Putin is the elected president of Russia … and highly popular there too. He has far higher popular support than any recent American or W European leader. Your boy Z, not so much …
All dictators are popular
Popularity means shit
And for the record, Zels approval rating is 14% higher than trumps
Really? All dictators? Do tell … from just my memory, I don't recall much popular support for Saddam, Cuba's Batista, Iran's current Khamenei, etc.
So, let's see … Putin is elected in free elections and polls show the people support him as president. What exactly makes him a dictator, being disliked by the "west"?
As for Z-boy's popularity … was you poll taken by the same people who are conducting forced conscriptions of kids over there? "Do you support our dear president Z, citizen?" Why, yes, I do …
Hitler
Mussolini
Japan
Stalin
Greece
Sweden
Finland
Most South American countries
All were popular dictatorshiops or bad popular dictatorshups.
Putin is a dictator
Your argument is flawed.
Caliman's specific point that "Putin is the elected president of Russia" is 100% correct and their unspoken corollary, that Zelenskiyy remains 'President of Ukraine' but HAS NOT been (re)-elected to that position, is also completely correct.
Ergo (as they say in Latin America), Rightstermeister's statement that "Zel(enskiyy) is more of a dictator than Putin" is completely true and accurate.
Zelenskyy is the elected president of Ukraine
Zelansky WAS the elected president of Ukraine. Past tense.
IS
You said "all" not "some" … you know there's a difference there, no? I pointed out that you "all" is not all that.
Sweden and Finland dictatorship …??
And just asserting Putin is a dictator makes you a MSM parrot, not an intelligent human.
Yes, Sweden and Finland were dictatorships during WW2
And i'm not an MSM parrot, I am going off the facts, where through logical thought, we can conclude that Putin is a dictator
Name the Russian figure or party who could ever win an election against Putin or the party with which he is aligned. I'll save you the wasted word salad: You can't. Over 60% of Russians who bother to vote, vote for him. The Russian "opposition" is splintered into diametrically opposed factions, with the largest #2 faction being a communist party which can't muster 15%. The pro-US, pro-EU Yeltsin-style DC-approved people can't get 5% of the vote (and why should they given the absolute socioeconomic freefall Russia suffered last time Wall St was in charge.) You have a very small % of Russian nutters (Zhironovsky types) who are the actual expansionists who want Finland and Alaska back, the people western media and Catholic Ukrainians make Putin out to be; 20 years ago those people could muster 5% at the polls and they can't get there now.
This 35-40% of the non-Putin electorate has nothing to unite over and don't have the numbers to win if they did. This is in fact a big part of the reason Russia is an official enemy of DC; the US can gain no color revolution traction in Russia.
Russia has 5 parties plus independent candidates in the Duma; there are regularly 5 or more presidential candidates on the ballot, and ballot access is literally far easier in Russia than in Oklahoma, Pennsylvania or half of the rest of US states. Ukraine? No elections. These are facts.
Sure, and Zelenskyy got elected with like 75% of the vote or close to.
You have it all wrong. The reason Russia is the West's enemy is because they invaded a sovereign nation, in disaccordance with a multitude of UN laws, have flaunted the laws of war, forcibly expropriated Ukrainians to Russia, and resettled their lands with Native Russians. They have, furthermore, kidnapped children and sent them to "reeducation camps," where they are taught the Russian anthem. This is not barring Russia's mass executions and dog-like, absolutely reprehensible treatment of POW's. This also includes the continuous bombing of Ukrainian power facilities, and the purposeful bombing of Ukrainian homes and businesses. Then, there is Russia's treatment of their own citizens, exposing them to brutal beatings and torture if they dare oppose the Putanic regime. They have also shut down all independent media, with RT and RIA Novosti the main source for Russian shit – news. Then, there are the abhorrent prison sentences for "disrespecting the russian army," which can land you up to 10 years in jail, then there's the 99% conviction rate, and in recent years, the increased xeneophobia, in particular towards central-asian migrants from countries like Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turmenistan, and Kyrgyzstan, which have seen them attacked in the streets. Speaking of which, did I mention Chechnya's anti-gay pogroms, in which gay people have been forcibly kidnapped, tortured, and then killed? Or that the leader of Chechnya also has his own private merc army? Oh yeah, and he's a muslim nationalist lunatic. Finally, there's the vote manipulation, it is a well known fact that Russia increases the percentage won by Putanic parties by between 10 and 15%. However, this year, they did it by an estimated astounding 25%. In the real results, the pro-western, anti-ukraine war party got 20% of the vote instead of the imaginary 5%.
But, I digress. The sole reason America doesn't like Russia is because… they can't foment a colour revolution .
You didn’t address the central claim of my post, which is that Russians prefer Putin by a wide margin over anyone else, and the largest minorities of opposition are not only diametrically opposed to each other but to the US even more than Putin. Who do you think would beat Putin in an election? I want a name. Who is this leader with 51% or more of public support that Russia is suppressing..? What’s the name of the party..? Hello, anyone..?
You seem to have missed the 8 years during which UKRAINE killed Ukrainians, banned their churches, their languages, murdered Ukrainian citizens (ironically people who YOU insist have to be Ukrainian citizens whether they want to be or not!), sent a million refugees INTO Russia, sent men to die in a war against Russian-speaking Ukrainians who then defected into Russia carrying their weapons… i.e., the Ukrainian military, even if to stop fighting, crossed that border with guns in hand first. No small point, something that no country would willingly accept without response.
“You didn’t address the central claim of my post, which is that Russians prefer Putin by a wide margin over anyone else Putin deigns to allow to run ‘against’ him.”
Fixed, no charge.
July 26, 2022: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson: praised Mr. Volodymyr Zelensky's "sheer courage" as he presented him with the Sir Winston Churchill Leadership Award. (news.sky.com.)
March 8, 2022: President Zelensky: "We will not surrender, we will not lose, we will go to the end," invoking the words of Britain's wartime Leader Winston Churchill as he appeals for more aid. (BBC, March 8, 2022)
April 2022: UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's jaunt to Kiev that thwarted a tentative peace deal with Moscow.
May 3, 2022: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Ukrainian soldiers have "fought with the energy and courage of lions." Ukraine would win supported with the right level of defensive military assistance."
June 14, 2022: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson says Kyiv must not be strong-armed into accepting a bad peace deal and that Ukraine "must win". Russia must not win.
Poland might have been more amenable to negotiate an agreement with Germany and thus avoid World War II if Britain had not given a War guarantee to Poland in 1939.
A "war guarantee" that they weren't prepared to back up at the time. Like the EU countries of today, Col. Beck thought he could rely on Western promises. He couldn't.
Your actually…. its unbelievable… it makes me want to actually scream at the top of my lungs
Hitler wanted us and he was not going to stop
You know Hitler's dead, right ? You can let the legal aides overseeing Godwin's Law rest a day or two by not constantly bringing Hitler into every f**king conversation you paratroop into, okay ?
Mr. Paine brought him up, thank you very muhc
He wanted Danzig which was yanked from Germany and "given" to Poland after WWI.
Dictators don't get awarded for their petty imperialist desires
Britain and France gave the guarantee and then declared war on Germany, shortly after Sep 1, 1939. Strangely and unexplainably they didn't declare war on the Soviet Union that had also invaded Poland.
Most people probably aren’t even aware that Stalin invaded Poland at the same time Hitler did.
"Sir Winston Churchill Leadership Award"
That's not the 'flex' people think it is.
Unless it's awarded to leaders eager to use poison gas, leaders with little regard for Commonwealth soldiers that aren't Englishmen, or leaders nobody wants as Prime Minister unless there's a war on.
Well he was responsible for the lame-brained battle of Gallipoli that was a disaster which proved Gen Smedley Butler's truth:
WAR is a racket. It always has been.
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
Surely, the most vicious: Drone war murders. The new World War One slaughter. A war gets ended by negotiating.
Trump should do the same thing about the genocide in Gaza and the wars in the ME but continues to aid and abet Israel's war crimes.
Antiwar tells the truth about the war in Ukraine, the Europeans are trying to get Trump to keep the war going on forever.
Zelensky will have no country left if it goes on, it will be as obliterated as Gaza is now. The people will have nowhere to live if they don't move.
Antiwar tells us that Putin is a wanted war criminal. You should tell the truth.
Despite Trumps claims of low support, Zelenskyy's approval rating reached 57% in February — higher than Trump's own.
Yeah, 57% support in a country where all opposition parties have been banned, where opposition activists have been thrown in jail, where martial law is imposed, where media are muzzled, where the SBU terrorizes the population, and where the government is the only source of news on the war.
It just goes to show how incompetent the Green Goblin really is, any "president" worth his salt would have 99.9% approval rating in those circumstances.
The ghost of Saddam Hussein be all, "Maaaaan, Zelenskiyy is f**king UP !!!"
For sure!
Incidentally, Saddam Hussein was first propped up and used by the empire for dirty deeds (war with Iran)… and then ruthlessly disposed of when he outlived his usefulness. Zelensky would do well to take note.
Hah!
Good one!
The wartime UK liked (& promoted) Churchill but swiftly elected a new Prime Minister.
$100,000,000 says he won't………….
So, is the a half proTrump antiwar vote?
As an autocrat to another, it takes one to know one!
Trump to Putin, indeed
“Think of it, a modestly successful comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, talked the United States of America into spending $350 Billion Dollars, to go into a War that couldn’t be won, that never had to start, but a War that he, without the US and ‘TRUMP,’ will never be able to settle,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
There's Donald thinking history started in 2022.
Trump's not exactly a deep thinker. But it doesn't matter, the mudslinging with Zelensky is no less spectacular. And it exposes brilliantly Zelensky's own intellectual deficiencies; wise statesmen have long figured out they need to flatter Trump, he's doing the exact opposite and with gusto.
Yeah. "Hey Don, quick question, who'd Zelenskiyy talk into selling him Javelin missiles back in, oh, 2017 ?"
Trump hasn't recovered yet from his nightly bender of fentanyl, booze, and big macs
Give him some time to chill down
Trump’s a notorious teetotaler.
Well the fentanyl and big macs still stand
Especially the big macs
Makes it up with Diet Coke, with a dash of adderall.
I dunno how he drinks that s**t. It tastes like brake fluid.
Coke Zero actually TASTES like regular Coca-Cola and is zero calorie (well, < 1 calorie, legally) AND you can get it in caffeine-free. Why bother with Diet Coke ?
Lol
Some people think Diet Coke tastes better. Probably has to do with long-term getting used to aspartame.
A non-habitual consumer of caffeine sleeps poorly or does not sleep for many hours after consuming caffeine. Aspartame promotes cancer.
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/coke-zero-vs-diet-coke
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/what-is-caffeine What Is Caffeine, and Is It Good or Bad for Health?
https://www.healthline.com/health/caffeine-effects-on-body
https://www.healthline.com/health/diabetes-diet-soda
https://www.uclahealth.org/news/article/observational-studies-shed-light-on-diet-soda-consumption
https://www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-prevention/chemicals/aspartame.html
https://www.heart.org/en/news/2022/08/08/is-caffeine-a-friend-or-foe
https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-979/caffeine Caffeine – Uses, Side Effects, and More
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8467199/ Caffeine as a Factor Influencing the Functioning of the Human Body—Friend or Foe?
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/in-depth/caffeine/art-20045678 Caffeine: How much is too much?
https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/healthyliving/caffeine
https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/caffeine
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/285194 What does caffeine do to your body?
https://www.bupa.co.uk/newsroom/ourviews/how-caffeine-affects-body
https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/spilling-beans-how-much-caffeine-too-much
https://www.eatthis.com/diet-coke-vs-coke-zero/
Day 1092 of "Leader" Poodles 3-day special needs short bus trip to Ukraine
I think that if Ukraine holds free and fair elections, so should Russia, Georgia, and Belarus
What goes around comes around…!
How about the U.S., without Citizens United giving the deep state super leverage.
Sure, just don't expect Drumpf to win, unless the MAGA cult shows out in full force
Russia's navy is underwater, beaten by a country which has no navy
Ironic, isn't it
The Moskva is rotting in hell!
…and then you and your far left ilk mouth the bs about Russia gonna conquer Europe.
Hey, whoa ! As someone on the Left, let me assure you we DO NOT want nationalist ex-pat twitts like Vila w/ Lox affiliated with our hemisphere of the political system !!!
Bad enough we still have Branch Covidian cultists and wokeist dips**ts on our half. We don't need more intellectual-welfare cases blocking up the queues while we're trying to do good for Humanity over here…!
i'm a libertarian socialist, thank you very much
Evidently, some don't know their history.
#1. The US promised the then-Soviet Union in 1991 that NATO would not be expanded eastward beyond a re-unified Germany when the Soviet Union began their withdrawal from East Germany and eventually the rest of eastern Europe.
#2. The Minsk Accord guaranteed by France and England and approved by the UN stipulated that Eastern Ukraine would enjoy some autonomy from the installed regime in Kiev after the installed regime began "killing his own people", banning the Russian language and attacking the eastern Ukrainians because they didn't go along with the coup in Kiev that overthrew the democratically elected government.
#3. Russia begged NATO and the US to actually talk about making sure Ukraine would not join NATO as they saw a hostile alliance right on their border as a threat to them. The same way we would if a foreign power overthrew the democracy in Mexico and installed a hostile dictator that was being armed by a hostile Alliance. What do you think we would do? See Cuban Missile Crisis for your answer.
#4 The idiotic Boris Johnson ordered Zelensky to not continue with the negotiations with Russia shortly after the war began when the Kiev Regime could have greatly mitigated their loss of territory by continuing the agreements they had already initialed in Istanbul. Now they will never retrieve any of the territory that historically has been part of Russia.
Some of you dum dums mention the non-agreement "one inch eastwards" like it'sts a new book of the Torah, God damn.
Your Forgetaboutism is chronic.
Naught Won Ihnch Istwerds!
There is no such thing, you are one or the other. Neoliberal economics for example are the opposite of socialism and unions, a paradox.
Time to clean the table, there is no real honorable and organized left anywhere to be seen. That is why we are where we are, no honest balance of power fighting for a fair and just society, no democracy will survive it.
Look at the 2025 project and the wild destruction of government and the ruthless treatment of the employees.
Trump and Musk, yes, they are worse than Biden and we thought it could not get worse. It already did.
Sure, but Ukraine will still lose this war. It already has. Battles can be won and they were, but winning the war is another thing all together.
More territory will be claimed by Russia at a rate that will accelerate unless something decisive happens during these talks.
And the real irony is that the Empire thought Russia would collapse of the war continued all the while dictating to Ukraine “no peace talks with Russia”.
Looks like there won’t be peace talks with Russia since the rump state of Ukraine will be told what to do by others.
Ukraine is just one more failed state on the list, by the curtesy of the generous and altruistic USA. Zelenskyy should be thankful, they made him very rich.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, USA 32nd president: two terms combating the Great Depression and 3rd and 4th during World War Two.
Thats cool, Mr. Lobanco
“two terms extending and deepening the Great Depression”
Fixed, no charge.
I do enjoy that Trump and Zelenskiyy despise each other.
When are we Europeans going to stop being scandalised about Donald Trump and start helping him to end this war?
Of course Ukraine didn’t start the war. You might as well say that America attacked Japan at Pearl Harbor.
Of course a country undergoing a violent invasion should not be staging elections. There was no general election in the UK from 1935 to 1945.
Of course Zelenskyy’s ratings are not 4%. They are actually about the same as Trump’s.
No
no what
With Russia's MoD entry into Ukraine's Sumy Oblast and continual bombardment of Odesa, few would accuse Moscow of maintaining a static posture while Washington and perhaps Kyiv decide how to negotiate one or two fine points towards a 'peace settlement.'
I hope this is just a ploy by Trump/Musk to cuddle Russia into giving up one of its sticking points so we can have peace and a fully restored Ukraine.
THERE SHOULD BE NO ELECTIONS ON HOME SOIL DURING MARTIAL LAW.
It's a distraction, dangerous, time-consuming, and practicably unworkable. The Russians used the concept of 'elections' already twice as a false premise to invade both Crimea and Donbass. Third times the charm? and yet he 'loves Ukraine'. Liar!
Wasn't false premise at all, the false premise is that Ukraine is a democracy when it was by violence that the democratically elected government was overthrown because the elected leader didn't want to be a footstool for the West.
And yet Zelensky said he could do it if the West picked up the bill.
When was that ever remotely implied
https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-zelensky-refusing-hold-ukraine-election-unless-us-pays-1823065
"'I told [Graham]: If the United States & Europe give us financial support… I'm sorry, I will not hold elections on credit, I will not take money from weapons and give it to elections either. But if you give me this financial support… then let's quickly change the legislation & most importantly, let's take risks together,' Zelensky said.
Ok, I was wrong, you were right, be happy
Zelenskyy Agrees to Hold Elections in Ukraine if Us Helps Pay for It
https://ijr.com/zelenskyy-agrees-hold-elections-ukraine-us-helps-pay-for-it/
i already admitted i was wrong be happy
When?
Trump only cares in the end of the war to pivot to Asia and target China. Perhaps it's best that this little conflict stays on so that the US is distracted by second hand country conflicts instead of going against it's own
It is a terrible disaster, it can only have a bad ending except for the war profiteers, the criminal American/Israeli syndicate of billionaires and all the other corrupt politicians in the EU and NATO.
Canada
They're home to Trudeau
Nuff said
Sorry, what has this got to do with anything? And what does it mean? Canada didn't "ditto" anything Trump said today?
Forgiv my simplicity but….:
“it takes one to know one King Donald!…
https://brownstone.org/articles/how-usaid-assisted-the-corporate-takeover-of-ukrainian-agriculture/
https://x.com/DonaldJTrumpJr/status/1892250819694641411
Trumpism:
a system ruled by fascists who use their power to steal other country's resources.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c0963aaaf412abbe557b6349d6cc01e62034b16bed4e983b8e3bb6d50278861e.png
Spinning down the drain faster and faster aboard the uss titanic
my peace plan
1. return of all ukrainians forcibly expropriated from Ukraine to Russia
2. Return of all lands to native Ukrainian owners
3. Russia retreats from all Ukrainian territory except for Sevastopol
4. Referendums but only in areas where ≥50% of the population is Russian
5. Russia holds free and fair elections
6. Ukraine joins EU/NATO and gets 100k peacekeepers
7. Russian military is taken into moratorium
8. All Russian military leaders are tried for genocide and incitement to genocide
9. All propoganda russian school lessons are returned to their original state
10. Following all these steps, Russia surrenders Kaliningrad to Poland and joins EU and NATO
11. Far eastern Russia votes on independence, so does Karelia. All people get more automony
Very generous to Russia, that is
What do you think about reparations for Russia's violation of public international law?
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule150 Reparation Rule 150. A State responsible for violations of international humanitarian law is required to make full reparation for the loss or injury caused.
https://www.icrc.org/sites/default/files/external/doc/en/assets/files/other/irrc_851_gillard.pdf Reparation for violations of international humanitarian law
https://review.law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2024/05/Hathaway-et-al.-76-Stan.-L.-Rev.-971.pdf 971 Stanford Law Review Volume 76 May 2024 ARTICLE War Reparations: The Case for Countermeasures
https://www.ictj.org/reparations
https://jusmundi.com/en/document/publication/en-reparation
https://www.diakonia.se/ihl/resources/international-law/reparations-international-law/
https://www.ohchr.org/en/instruments-mechanisms/instruments/basic-principles-and-guidelines-right-remedy-and-reparation
https://sonar21.com/ukraines-zelensky-forgets-the-first-rule-of-crisis-management-if-youre-in-a-hole-stop-digging/
Zelensky said Ukraine “did not know anything about” the meeting between Putin and Trump, and said his country will not accept a peace deal brokered without Ukrainian participation.
Zelensky told reporters he “would like Trump’s team to be more truthful” about the war and accused the president of living in a Russian-made “disinformation space.”
Who said Russia and the US were brokering a peace deal?
Zelenskyy is not a man with honor, and neither are our politicians including Biden and Trump. Both know very well that Zelenskyy was only a third rate comedian, and totally ignorant how power politics work. He was an object for politicians they could kick around where they needed him as long as he was paid well. And now they use him to wipe their own a*s and feet clean of all the BS around them and blame the it is the fault of powerless little sh*thead clown.
He had no power, recall when Biden used Boris, the messenger, telling the ignoramus to end negotiating with Russia, BIDEN LET HIM KNOW WHO IS IN CHARGE, not a little clown, he should not forget his place, he is to take orders.
And he did and now they kick him in his cojones.
Such is our political nobility.
”Takes one to know one!”….
“As a man thinketh?… Therefor he is”…
Churchill was nearly 77 when he took office and not in good health following minor strokes. By December 1951, George VI had become concerned about Churchill’s decline and intended asking him to stand down in favor of Anthony Eden, but the King had his own health issues and died. It was widely expected Churchill would retire after the Queen’s Coronation in 1953 but, after Eden became seriously ill, Churchill increased his own responsibilities by taking over at the Foreign Office. Eden was incapacitated until the end of the year and was never completely well again.
On the evening of 23 June 1953, Churchill suffered a serious stroke; the matter was kept secret and Churchill went to Chartwell to recuperate. He had recovered by November. He retired in April 1955 and was succeeded by Eden.
And your point is?
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WHAT TOOK HIM SO LONG???
All he had to do was to implement the Minsk agreement for a neutral and prosperous country. The ignoramus did not care about the country, like money and luxury villas. He may not live long enough to enjoy it.
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Elections are not an efficient indicator of a healthy democracy, but the drawing of lots, as in ancient Greek democracy. Let's take a look at elections in Ukraine.
https://www.ips-journal.eu/topics/democracy-and-society/elections-in-times-of-war-6980/ In Ukraine, elections were planned for October. But can – and should – a country at war hold free, fair and secure elections?
https://www.ips-journal.eu/topics/democracy-and-society/war-now-elections-later-7118/ Western allies are urging Ukraine to hold presidential elections. But President Zelenskyy has rejected such demands – for good reasons
https://www.coe.int/en/web/kyiv/reform-of-the-electoral-practice-in-ukraine
https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclusive/ukraine-cant-hold-elections-during-the-war-does-it-matter/
https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-studies-european-models-post-war-elections-democracy/
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/safeguarding-ukraines-democracy-during-the-war/
https://www.idea.int/publications/catalogue/supporting-ukraines-democracy-after-war-key-issues
https://www.cigionline.org/articles/in-the-midst-of-war-ukraine-is-digitizing-democracy/
https://verfassungsblog.de/wartime-elections-as-democratic-backsliding/ On the constitutional implications and legitimacy of wartime elections in Ukraine
https://verfassungsblog.de/democracy-under-total-war/ Let me limit myself to three observations concerning the presidency, the limited role of parliament in wartime, and reasons for hope in the Ukrainian conduct of the war.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0022343313512852 Democracy and armed conflict
https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2024/mounting-damage-flawed-elections-and-armed-conflict
https://equalitybylot.com/
https://www.uc.pt/site/assets/files/1723967/drawing_lots_introduction_p1-29.pdf Irad Malkin & Josine Blok
https://tidsskrift.dk/classicaetmediaevalia/article/view/145252/188450 Irad Malkin & Josine Blok: ‘Greeks Drawing Lots: Unity and Diversity in a Panhellenic Mindset and Practice’
https://www.scirp.org/journal/paperinformation?paperid=107594 Selection by Lot and Democracy: New Trend, Ancient Model