After a bitter rift with Donald Trump left many in Ukraine fearing that the US president had swung behind Russia again, President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the dispute head on: there’s nothing personal between me and Trump, he told CNN, but cozying up to Vladimir Putin would only “make him stronger.”
Ties between the US and Ukraine have badly deteriorated in recent weeks.
Zelensky said Trump was “on the wrong side of history” after he announced a deal to buy Russian fuel, upending international efforts to isolate Russia. Trump then waived some sanctions against Russia, drawing criticism even from his own party. Ukraine’s forces found their access to the Elon Musk-run Starlink service restricted.
Speaking to CNN from Kyiv on Thursday, Zelensky took a conciliatory tone, saying the tensions were “not about personalities” – but warned that Putin had no intention of stopping the war.
Zelenskyy has the patience and willpower of a saint.
I applaud Zelensky for his restraint.
Because there is absolutely no way it isn’t personal. This pedo rapist traitor is betraying Zelensky’s country and siding with its enemy as it’s being invaded and a ton of his countrymen are being killed.
It’s WAY personal.
Ever the diplomat. I’m sure he’d like to put Trump in the Hague right next to Putin. Assuming they survive that far.
Of course not. For something personal, two people need to be involved with personality.
Awe, now him and Trump can be friends again and he can cater, praise, kowtow to him like before. Did he also say how much he misses his dear friend Lindsay Graham?
Dude has his entire country on the line. Wtf are you saying? If you had to save your entire family, you would shower praising words on your blackmailer too.
No I wouldn’t. Zelensky has continually legitimized fascists like Trump to fight a proxy war for a neocon colonialist empire by kidnapping and beating his own citizens. Everyday the mass busification videos are shown and people claiming to care about Ukrainians downplay them with comments like this gem from a video today:
“It should be treachery and punishable by death if your not willing to go defend…”
He refuses to even hold elections to make his own people’s voices heard.
He
refusesis legally unable to hold elections while 20% of his country is under Russian occupation.Not just legally, also practically. You can’t hold elections while being bombed.
The United States held elections during the Civil War, so there’s that.
When there were bombers, drones, rockets and missiles, right.
Now your entire family is dead, but I guess you still have your pride. And that’s what’s most important, right?
And you have now propped up BlackRock:
Helped passed anti-worker and anti-union laws:
Helped ban progressive and left-wing parties:
https://www.leftvoice.org/president-zelenskyy-bans-opposition-parties-in-ukraine/
Helped spread pro-Israel/pro-Zelensky neocon propaganda operations led by the DoD and US military:
And helped a whole bunch of neocons:
Graham was a lot of things, but he was a consistent ally to Ukraine.
