Zelensky's Reckoning in the Oval Office

Trump and Vance Eviscerated the Ukrainian Head of State In Historic Fashion

An extraordinary spectacle occurred at the White House on Friday, February 28, 2025, when Zelensky came to the oval office in conjunction with cease fire talks that President Trump is (or was) trying to facilitate between the two warring nations. Zelensky came in his paramilitary garb as has been his trademark. One reporter chided the Ukrainian President, asking him why he cannot wear a suit. And then the real fireworks happened when Vice President Vance confronted Zelensky on a number of matters, including not expressing gratitude on this particular occasion, and admonishing him that the United States was trying to save his country from ruin. The most salient portion of the exchange can be found in this video.

The exchange between Trump and Zelensky became heated, with Trump admonishing Zelensky for “gambling with millions of lives” and “gambling with World War III.” He further told the visiting head of state that he “does not hold any cards” without the United States. The meeting abruptly ended, and reports have confirmed that Zelensky was summarily dismissed from the White House. Trump issued this statement, indicating the Ukrainian leader is not ready for peace and that he can come back only when he is ready to negotiate.

The usual assembly of cretins, from neo-cons like Bill Kristol and Cheney to hard-core leftist lunatics are apoplectic.

Reasonable minds can agree or disagree on Russia’s decision to go to war against Ukraine. This author submits that Russia has very legitimate grievances, including decades of NATO expansion, as well legitimate territorial claims in Southeast Ukraine along the Crimea, which has a super-majority of Russian people, to say nothing of the border change that occurred between Russian and Ukraine during their tenure as Soviet States in the USSR for rather arbitrary reasons.

To whatever extent reasonable minds can agree or disagree on the Russian Ukrainian War, it is nonetheless apparent that most of the Ukraine flag emoji sort fail this set of criteria demonstrating whether a person has a minimum level of knowledge to speak on this matter intelligently. When war-mad Ukrainian flag emoji sorts are presented with this litmus test, the response has almost invariably been some variation of accusations of being a Russian or Putin bot, or a simple reiteration of what was already stated, namely that “aggressive war” is categorically wrong, even though the United States has done similar actions, but with countries to which it has no color of territorial claims or that are well outside the United States sphere of influence.

In the unlikely scenario that readers are unfamiliar with the commentary of John Mearsheimer on this matter, some if his notable presentations are provided via hyperlink. US Foreign policy and the polices of its assemblage of puppet vassal states in the European Union have squandered hundreds of billions of dollars in a proxy war with the nation that led to the downfall of both Napolean’s Le Grande Armee and Hitler’s deutsche Wehrmacht (and Waffen SS). And while that nation has been in decline since the Velvet Revolution, that nation, quite obviously, wields nuclear weapons capable of destroying the planet, not just for humanity but most all life on the planet. The outrage of wasting hundreds of billions of dollars to fund a proxy war that cannot be won and that has greatly enhanced the risk of an exchange of nuclear arms (either limited or full on Armageddon) is only exacerbated by the kickbacks, money laundering, the unaccounted for funds that have gone missing, and the certainty that many of these arms provided to Ukraine have or will wind-up on the International black market for weaponry and arms and the accordant risk of those arms winding up in terrorist organizations.

Although often expressing such grievances in an offensive and foolish manner, many on the dissident right have some legitimate complaints about Trump, most particularly his Zionist and Judeophilia tendencies. To the extent Trump is bringing the United States and the world away from the precipice of oblivion is such a positive development it can scarcely be quantified by words. While precise figures are shrouded in secrecy and the fog of war, hundreds of thousands have died on both sides. Hopefully, by exercising leverage in this way, Trump will ultimately compel this coke-ridden lunatic to accept peace terms to end the conflict that has driven war-mad lunatics demonize the Russian people in a way not seen since how Germans have been vilified in both world wars. Indeed, it seems impeachment proceedings have been intiated against the Ukrainian head of state.