Trump calls Zelensky ‘dictator,’ warns of Ukraine’s demise without elections

https://kyivindependent.com/trump-calls-zelensky-dictator-warns-of-ukraines-demise-without-elections/

Posted by Alarmed_Mistake_9999

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  2. Submission Statement: On Truth Social, the President launched a blistering attack on the Ukrainian President, calling him a “dictator” responsible for the destruction of his country (without mentioning who attacked first) and also accusing the Ukrainian government of wasting American aid (the quantity he also exaggerates).

    Essentially, the President is making an offer Ukraine can’t refuse.

    Commentary: I don’t even know where to start here. Everything he says is so wrong. This outburst is likely stemming from Zelensky’s rejection of Trump’s outrageous demand for a controlling interest in Ukraine’s mineral resources… without any security gurantees. These are the words of a Mafia Don, not an American President.

    It’s obvious a meeting between the leaders of the #1 and #3 global powers won’t end the war. Unlike Czechoslovakia in 1938, Ukraine will not accept a “peace deal” negotiated over its head.

  3. Okay, is the US going to guarantee a fair and free election in occupied areas?

    Or perhaps Putin put you up to it.

  4. all of the sudden trump just loves elections….hmm, i wonder what changed?

  6. “Warns” of Ukraine’s demise. Hold up.
    That seems a little fishy.

  7. I agree that Ukraine needs to hold elections. But it’s literally in their constitution to not have elections during a war.

    I know that following your country’s constitution is a foreign concept to Trump, but currently, Zelensky is definitely doing just that

  8. Call for elections, insist on using Starlink tabulation machines, Russian candidate mysteriously wins

  9. Big words coming from a guy that actively tried to conduct a coup after he lost the 2020 election.

  10. Zelenski is a nuisance. Goodbye. Now something more controllable. The US and Russia have ample experience in this.

  12. So up until today I was really trying to bet that a lot of news was just typical hysteria of news cycles

    But these past few hours regarding Ukraine, Russia, and how the US is approaching it really makes me think that the US, at least now publicly, just switched. How off am I? I mean a month ago if you asked me, Trumps mission was to at least support NATO, but make the EU pay their fair share. Now it seems like Trump is just completely on Putins side. 

    History in real time is wild. 

  13. Guys, per the definition of the word, Zelenskyy is a dictator. I don’t fault him for temporarily refraining from elections in the face of a national existential crisis, but it does make him a dictator per the original definition of the word dating back to Ancient Rome.

  14. Does anyone have a realistic expectation how this might play out? I understand this is super early in this shit show. If Europe steps up, maybe it’s bearable to lose the US?

  15. It is some what amusing but not surprising that Trump now seeks to remove Zelenskiy as he views his presence impedes negotiation with Russia. Who would have thought the very thing Russia and Ukraine fought so hard over is now handed over by US, we could have avoided so much death. 

  16. Why call him a dictator when he’s just defending his country?

  17. The U.S. made a commitment in the [Budapest Memorandum](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum) to uphold Ukraine’s sovereignty in exchange for them giving up nuclear weapons (world’s 3rd largest arsenal at the time). If that agreement means nothing, why should any country ever trust US security assurances again?

  18. Nobody going to comment about how he says there’s a ‘big beautiful ocean’ between US and Europe. He might want to look west, unless he thinks the Earth is flat…

  19. He said this because he feels a natural affinity with Putin — and they are alike .  Both evil. But Putin is far more intelligent, and plays Trump for a fool with flattery.

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