I knew I'd posted about Zelensky's attitude problem before. Two years ago almost to the day.
This is not a new behavior for him at all.
It's really lending credence to the idea that the meeting going the way it did was sorta planned.
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It still bears noting that Zelensky's had Putin's knife at his throat for three years now, and our largesse has been to fight Russian aggression to the last Ukrainian.
ReplyDeleteUkraine being wholly beholden to the kindness of strangers since about May of 2022 is not conducive to happy-go-lucky repartee between leaders, and we promised to defend Ukraine's 1991 borders in a treaty we signed, with no gun to our head, in peacetime, in exchange for them agreeing to surrender all those Soviet-era nukes.
Which has proven to 191 nations to be the stupidest and worst decision of any nation in modern history.
We'll be watching those chickens coming home to roost for the next century.
If, as has been claimed from some sources, Zelensky demanded US troops, he's an idiot.
(And btw, an offer to buy Ukrainian rare-earth minerals is moot if Putin blows up those facilities every other day in perpetuity.)
If Trump's plan is to sell out a treaty promise by sacrificing Ukraine, he's the idiot.
Zelensky only stands to lose his nation and his life.
Trump stands to lose every treaty partner in the world, and the inevitable follow-up to realizing US treaty promises aren't worth the paper they're printed on, is to realize the US dollar isn't worth the paper it's printed on either.
Remember all that, when nuclear proliferation becomes a growth industry, and eggs aren't the only thing you see going up 600% in price in the coming days.
There was no actual treaty to defend Ukraine. The media reported it as if there was, but... The Budapest Memorandum was an agreement by several nations not to threaten or interfere with Ukraine. Russia breached that in 2014 and that's the reason for the sanctions that got imposed.
DeleteBut it wasn't a treaty to defend Ukraine and it only took a second to find.
"Defend"? No. Absolutely no.
Delete"Guarantee the sovereign borders of"? Absolutely yes.
How you do one without the other is a keen point of interest in Kiev. Not so much in D.C., obviously.
Clintonian word-parsing won't cut any ice in 30 other capitols.
I won't belabor the point further on your soapbox, but will take up the rest later this week.
They accepted the word parsing then surrendered their weapons. Science has a term for that: Fucking idiot.
DeleteThe agreement says what it says. It doesn't require anyone to do anything more than go to the UN with their grievance. Which we did. Mission accomplished!
If they entered into an agreement that had no teeth and thought we'd act like they were NATO they weren't paying attention to the text. They really fucked up when they didn't pay attention to Russia invading Georgia and not getting better guarantees.