A Day of American Infamy – “Zelensky came to Washington prepared to sign away anything he could offer Trump except his nation’s freedom, security and common sense. …he was rewarded with a lecture on manners from the most mendacious vulgarian and ungracious host ever to inhabit the White House.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/opinion/a-day-of-american-infamy.html

by MeltSolaris

36 comments

  1. Hopefully it was the last time Zelensky needed to set foot in America.

    We need to pick this up and fix it, and we need to do it quick. America is de facto our enemy now.

  2. I’m glad to see so many news outlets even in America denouncing Trump. They are still on the side of democracy and freedom, and that still matters. Even if they have an evil president.

  4. It is time to rely on ourselves to preserve our values ​​and freedom. Unity 🇪🇺

  5. 1. From now on, if Ukraine needs any weapons or ammunition, it can inform the EU, which will purchase these weapons and ammunition in Europe, the US, or other countries, and then transfer them to Ukraine as aid or through long-term loans to be paid in the future.
    2. America should no longer be in any position to negotiate for Ukraine, as it is clearly biased towards Russia and Putin. If Putin wants a ceasefire, he should negotiate with and present his terms to the EU, which will then ask Ukraine for its opinions. This is the fair and just way to deal with the current situation, rather than being manipulated by Russia’s one-sided narrative.

  6. Interesting how former American presidents have been very quiet.

  7. My take on this is that the deal didn’t get through behind closed doors because trump’s terms for peace were probably ridiculous so they decided to blow it up in public because they have fragile ego’s.

  8. In Russian “Manda” = c@nt. Mendacious is spelled wrong 👿

  9. Our Russian JV team regime is an utter embarrassment. I have no words for anyone who voted this shit back into office

  10. Zelensky demonstrates to Republicans what ‘having a spine’ means.

  11. Exactly, Zelenskyy didn’t want to sign away Ukraines freedom and security. So the mineral deal was a collaboration with America. But without security guarantees Putin wouldn’t have cared about that deal, and he wouldn’t have allowed American companies to extract those minerals. Which would have shown to the whole world, and Trump in particular, that Putin in fact cannot not be trusted and that Trump has zero control over Putins doing. I think Trump realised that, and needed to back away from the deal. Of course, he cannot back away from a deal he brokered himself, so he needed Zelenskyy to back away from the deal. Mission accomplished I guess.

    But this just my own little conspiracy theory.

  12. Trump really is a vile disgusting person. I hope America gets it’s act together and stops him and his billionaire buddies before they irreversibly destroy any resemblance of the America we once knew.

  14. I feel so much anger. So much rage, I feel ashamed to say I thought America was the pinnacle of awesome. I always felt as a mini USA here in the Netherlands, personally. The times of Obama, a real leader, have long since been forgotten. What a fucking clownshow. Disgusting that so many of the land of the free and ‘brave’ chose to be weak and corrupt. Fuck you for ruining my childhood nostalgia. Fuck you for not fucking standing up to these low life apes. America, land of the weak, home of the assholes

  15. That’s reality. America becoming Russia N2.
    Starring:
    Trump as Elcin.
    Mask as putin.

  16. The NYT, along with most American media, played a significant role in sane washing the vulgarian.

    Buyer’s remorse?

  17. Europe has to unite, I wish the EU would offer Visas to American citizens that want to leave , under the Trump regime, “A welcome home card” for any taxpayer. Craftspeople, entrepreneurs ,artists, students etc, bleed the US where it hurts, drain the brains , leave the swamp to fester.

  18. Fun fact: trump is still in his second month, he got 3 years and 10 months left to make it even worse.

  20. This administration has managed to do what no other administration has ever done before! Unite the Canadians, unite European countries and trigger the stimulation of the European domestic defense industry, lose, if not all, then most of the soft power that the US has built up for a very long time, fire key people only to have them recruited by China and Russia, ally with Russia and betray the EU, torpedo trade agreements with its closest allies and traditional partners, etc…. And now this! I mean, it doesn’t look good for the US and Americans. They will have to work very, very hard to regain the lost trust of their allies and partners, which could might as well be permanently damaged. Oh well… that’s just sad!

  21. Excerpts:

    >In August 1941, about four months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Franklin Roosevelt met with Winston Churchill aboard warships in Newfoundland’s Placentia Bay and agreed to the Atlantic Charter, a joint declaration by the world’s leading democratic powers on “common principles” for a postwar world.
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    >Among its key points: “no aggrandizement, territorial or other”; “sovereign rights and self-government restored to those who have been forcibly deprived of them”; “freedom from fear and want”; freedom of the seas; “access, on equal terms, to the trade and to the raw materials of the world which are needed for their economic prosperity.”
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    >The charter, and the alliance that came of it, is a high point of American statesmanship. On Friday in the Oval Office, the world witnessed the opposite. Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s embattled democratic leader, came to Washington prepared to sign away anything he could offer President Trump except his nation’s freedom, security and common sense. For that, he was rewarded with a lecture on manners from the most mendacious vulgarian and ungracious host ever to inhabit the White House.
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    >If Roosevelt had told Churchill to sue for peace on any terms with Adolf Hitler and to fork over Britain’s coal reserves to the United States in exchange for no American security guarantees, it might have approximated what Trump did to Zelensky. Whatever one might say about how Zelensky played his cards poorly — either by failing to behave with the degree of all-fours sycophancy that Trump demands or to maintain his composure in the face of JD Vance’s disingenuous provocations — this was a day of American infamy.
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    >Where do we go from here?
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    >If there’s one silver lining to this fiasco, it’s that Zelensky did not sign the agreement on Ukrainian minerals that was forced on him this month by Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary who’s the Tom Hagen character in this protection-racket administration. The United States is entitled to some kind of reward for helping Ukraine defend itself — and Ukraine’s destruction of much of Russia’s military might should top the list, followed by the innovation Ukraine demonstrated in pioneering revolutionary forms of low-cost drone warfare, which the Pentagon will be keen to emulate.
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    >…
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    >Still, there’s no getting around the fact that Friday was a dreadful day — dreadful for Ukraine, for the free world, for the legacy of an America that once stood for the principles of the Atlantic Charter.
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    >Roosevelt and Reagan must be spinning in their graves, as are Churchill and Thatcher. It’s up to the rest of us to reclaim America’s honor from the gangsters who besmirched it in the White House.

  22. > Ungracious *hosts*

    Let’s not forget the human shit stain called JD Vance.

  23. This should be the behaviour towards putin, Kim and all the other dictators.

  25. Because Trump doesn’t want this alliance or NATO, he’s just making a fuss and fake demands to shift blame to the other side, instead of saying it outright.

    Coward.

  26. And then after the orange menace forced poor Zelensky to leave, he put on his stupid red cap and went to face reporters on the WH front porch to spread lies (again), before shamelessly boarding his helicopter to fly down to Florida where he probably will do nothing (not even for his own country) other than playing golf on a course that he bought with his late father’s money.

  27. Fuck Trump, the entire US government, and every single person who voted for him.

  29. Nation with more guns per capita and children killed because of guns: “just in case the government goes evil”. Government goes evil: *crickets*

  30. The fact that they put this fucking clown back in office after getting rid of him. It makes me sick

  31. How do any sane Republicans tolerate this shit? More of them should speak up.

  33. Californian here… something very evil is in this administration. It’s more clear than ever. I feel sick to my stomach. 

  34. All it took was Zelensky making the point that “8 yeaes of diplomacy failed Ukraine and led to a Russian invasion. DJTs praise and admiration of Putin makes it more sus. To my eye, it looked like he was invited in bad faith with the intention for narrative building so that turning shoulder on Ukraine looks justified, like “hey everyone look at how unreasonable this guy is!”

  35. A geriatric coward trying to tell a real leader how to fight for his nation; utterly pathetic

  36. It was shocking – and why was the VP even there! It was like watching a badly written play about a demonic president.
    There was no discussion, no reasoning, just bizarre attacks – not one listening ear.
    Zelenskyy just showed strength, dignity and integrity.
    I just hope the rest of Europe including UK, step up in solidarity. We’re just going to have to forget the US as a world player now.
    Step round the outside of them.

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