The Beginning of Zelenskiy's End

Perspective counts.  Here we quote a column recapping the lead-up to the end of Humpty-Zelinskiy's Great Fall.

 ...We can now see this week was a full-court press, a joint Ukraine-Europe operation to box Trump in so that he’d be forced to agree to a guarantee. On Monday, colorful French President Emmanuel Macron visited Trump— delivering the carrot. On Thursday, British Prime Minister Kier Starmer visited Trump— to show the stick.

Following Macron and Starmer’s coordinated efforts, Zelensky was supposed to be walking in yesterday with Trump already having agreed to Zelensky’s plan.

The European weenies knew that Trump had taken any security guarantees off the table. But they thought they’d found another way. They’d proposed to send an EU “peacekeeping force” to Ukraine, and told Trump the U.S. would only have to guarantee security to the EU —not Ukraine— a “backstop” providing a politically expedient way for Trump to indirectly break his earlier promise.

But Macron’s carrot and Starmer’s threats fell flat. So when Zelensky arrived yesterday, what was supposed to be a done deal was still Trump’s deal. That’s why Zelensky, in a panic, tried to renegotiate the deal during a press conference intended to announce he was signing the same deal.

At around the 19-minute mark, Trump glowingly praised Ukraine’s courage and its fighting skills, and even promised that the US would keep providing Kiev with military support. But by minute 24, Zelensky started openly demanding security guarantees, which Trump had already ruled out. “We will never accept just cease-fire. It will not work without security guarantees,” the Ukrainian dictator emphatically said in broken English.

Zelensky rambled on and on, as a stony-faced Trump grew increasingly aggravated. “When we speak about security guarantees,” Zelensky said, “when the Europeans are ready for contingents (of peacekeepers), they need USA back stop. This is crucial. This is very important. This is what we want to speak about. We need to provide this. We need this very much. Otherwise Putin will never stop. He hate us.”

Then he shifted into a weaselly running gear. “This is the rule of the war. Who began— those pay. This is the rule. Putin began this war, he has to pay all money for renovation.” Warming to his theme, and referring to Russian assets frozen by sanctions, he continued, “Some Russian assets we have in Europe, some $300 billions, we can use them, for renovation and buy military support from US also. But it’s not enough.”

In other words, Zelensky threw our crappy minerals deal back in our faces. It’s not enough. On top of security guarantees, he demanded that we, America, Trump, make Putin pay. And then pay more after that....

Whereupon Trump threw this fetid mouth-breather out of the White House.

Actually, Vol, baby--it IS enough. 

UPDATE:  This is a video of the entire 50-minute discussion.