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.
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:
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/28/zelenskyy-blackrock-ceo-fink-agree-to-coordinate-ukraine-investment.html
Helped passed anti-worker and anti-union laws:
https://lis-isl.org/en/2022/08/ucrania-zelenski-firmo-la-ley-no-5-371-otra-locura-total-y-un-crimen-de-poder/
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:
https://public-assets.graphika.com/reports/graphika_stanford_internet_observatory_report_unheard_voice.pdf
And helped a whole bunch of neocons:
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/4167680-zelensky-meets-with-us-experts-and-think-tank-leaders.html