You don’t have legitimate negotiations of any kind in front of cameras, and you sure as fuck don’t invite the propaganda arm of one of the participants in a ceasefire to record while berating the leader of the other.
This was a proverbial “dog & pony show”, except in their utterly cluelessness Trump and Vance didn’t realize that Zelenskyy is neither dog nor pony. He is that most noble and underestimated of equines, a donkey, and anyone who has ever owned a donkey knows that the more you want them to do something the more stalwart they will be in resisting you. Vance is just lucky he didn’t get kicked in the head, and Trump that he doesn’t have deep square bite marks on his kindergartener’s sized mitts.
I’ve seen the same post in the comments section of our local television’s FB post about the Oval Office ambush. It’s amazing to think that someone who has difficulty grasping the subtleties of Candyland could think 10 moves ahead in chess.
I think it’s pretty simple- Donnie admires Putin and wants to earn his approval such as he never received from his own father. In addition, Putin has limitless money, the ultimate test of a person’s worth in Donnie’s eyes. There is nothing that Zelenskyy can offer to match what Dear Old Vlad can, so of course the correct move is to suck up to Putin.
Our best hope is that the Europeans can shoulder that share of the Ukraine support that the US formerly supplied.
Some one posted part of this on a friend’s Facebook post. I was waiting till I was back home to post a response. Now that response will note that these are not even the MAGAt’s own thoughts or words.
Also somebody posted that American businesses were operating in Ukraine when Putin invaded. I believe them. I would like a cite in case I am asked to provide it
It’s not a comprehensive list, just some large corporations with major interests in Ukraine. There are a number of small aerospace companies with connections to Ukraine (because most of the Soviet-era and post-Soviet space launch manufacturing and engineering support facilities are in Dnipro and Kharkiv), and Ukraine was the largest provider of integrated electrical harnesses for the automotive and aeronautical industries prior to the invasion, among other domestic business concerns that support international industry.
My partner’s from Kharkiv, too. I wish we had ever had a chance to go back and see it before the war began. He did take me on a tour via Google Maps when the bombing started, showing me the places he remembered and such.
Perhaps he thought that his knowledge of martial arts allowed him to see how Trump and Vance were using Zelensky’s supposed strengths to assist them in defeating him.
Dipping into the magaverse, they are all just going on and on about the (lack of a) suit.
I think that aspect was planned too, given that Zelensky is well-known at this point for dressing in army fatigues as a mark of solidarity.
If Zelensky had worn a suit for the first time, the question would have included an insinuation about shopping. But he didn’t, so instead it was about disrespect.
Yes, I think this too. Agent Orange doesn’t like Zelensky and it’s a huge obstacle. That whole thing about calling for Ukraine to have elections, and Speaker Johnson’s remark today that Zelensky should resign shows how much the orange asshole would like to get rid of him, and if that can’t be accomplished then all of Ukraine can go down with him as far as the asshole is concerned.
I have wondered if it would be possible for Ukraine to appoint someone clever, charming, smart and an excellent actor to be a super-duper special envoy to the US, imbued with the authority to make decisions on any further agreements who could stand in Zelensky’s stead. Because I think the chances of any further negotiations with Zelensky himself stand almost zero chance of being successful, because we have such a mean, small, petty little man as the head of our government, Og help us all.
Never mind that the whole suit thing is just manufactured bullshit like everything else the idiots expel, I think they, with their ridiculous hats, are the very least qualified to comment on anyone’s attire.