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Mental.
"Or he is not going to have a country left" is eerily sinister.
Words just utterly fail me about that man. There are some points on Ukraine where I think the US have credible arguments, but calling Zelensky a "dictator" is a disgusting slur. Implying that Ukraine started it is disingenuous tripe straight out of the Kremlin playbook. He's right, people have unnecessarily died, but they've unnecessarily died defending their country in the face of an unprovoked invasion from a despotic monster who doesn't respect European Borders and who has a warped fantasy to try and re-create the Soviet Union. As for Zelensky not holding an election, it's against Ukrainian law to hold elections when the country is under Martial law - and whilst on the subject of elections, if Trump is that bothered about leaders holding elections, why has he said nothing about a man who has not held one legitimate vote in 25 years of rule - the only dictator is
Putin, not Zelensky.
I actually do think it's time that the war ended, but only with a proper and fair negotiated settlement. not a cosy, back-door stitch up without the invaded country having a say. Trump is taking the World ever closer to WW3.
Having said all of that about America, Europe should stop its pathetic grand-standing about being entitled to be an equal partner in this process. Europe has no right to complain about where we've got to with Ukraine and US involvement in NATO, our countries have had ample warnings from several US presidents over many years. There was always going to become a point where America said "enough is enough". The timing is unfortunate, but you make yourselves hostage to fortune when you completely fail to recognise threats that are obviously on the horizon. The penny had the chance to drop with Georgia, Crimea, Salisbury - even what Russia did with Assad in Syria. Instead of taking measures to shield ourselves from any American retreat in NATO, our leaders hung on to a security fantasy, where American leadership of NATO was in perpetuity and we never had to stand on our own two feet. Our leaders also clung hopelessly to the idea that Putin's Russia could be integrated into our thinking and become a modern western democracy that didn't threaten its neighbours - Western leaders didn't see Putin's threat, because they didn't want to see it - and now we're paying the price. If European countries had never made crazy assumptions about US support, we would be in a far better position now.
The US have betrayed Ukraine in these talks, but Europe betrayed them by weakness and emboldening Putin in the first place
