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Everything about President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance kicking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s sorry, begging, petulant, pompous, entitled ass out of the White House last Friday is the perfect encapsulation of America First foreign policy in practice, not just in theory. This is exactly what I voted for, and I couldn’t be more proud of our leaders for practicing what they preach, consequences and optics be damned.
From start to finish, that White House press conference was a diplomatic masterclass in not just pragmatism and defending American interests, but also what to do when confronted with lies, veiled insults, weirdly deceptive threats (yeah, the staffer who probably showed Zelensky Red Dawn as meeting prep should absolutely be fired!), and all around boorish behavior from someone who is clearly used to being worshipped and catered to by world leaders everywhere.
The fact that Zelensky thought his globetrotting circus act would play in front of Trump and Vance with no pushback shows that the Ukrainian dictator, who also strangely thinks he can win the ongoing war against Russia, is more deluded than any of us ever imagined. To their credit, they were mostly patient for the first 40 minutes of that clown show, but when Zelensky began questioning the very idea of diplomacy itself, Vance and Trump soon after had had enough.
Things went downhill fast at that point, and if you’re an America First type, watching Trump and Vance surgically berate Zelensky for basically being an entitled, ungrateful little b*tch was a thing of beauty. But the best part was how it ticked off all the right people. Virtually every Democrat and neocon from John Bolton to John Brennan was shocked, shocked I tell you, that Trump dared be less than civil to the modern-day Churchill. Well, I never!
The lunch went uneaten by its intended guests, and Zelensky went back across the pond with his tail between his legs, carrying a host of supportive X posts from cucked world leaders with nothing of substance to offer but zero deals brokered by the good ole U S of A. He and his legion of supporters worldwide continue to refuse to see or consider the obvious realities on the ground that Trump and Vance see: Ukraine can’t win the war outright, even with continued help, and giving the kind of help it would take to actually win it (i.e. nuclear) would result in World War III, an outcome nobody should want.
In fact, what most reasonable, non-brainwashed people SHOULD want is for their country to at least be on non-enemy terms with other nuclear powers. Yet, for some reason, expressing the desire to be civil with Russia has become an unpardonable sin, at least to leftists and neocons. But it makes zero sense, unless of course there are nefarious motives for them to think this way.
I wouldn’t want to live in Russia, at least while the USA, for the most part, remains a Constitutional Republic. I will always prefer that to a de facto dictatorship. Still, the assertion by so many people whose opinions I detest on every other issue that they are or should be our ‘enemy’ seems dubious. WHY does Russia have to be our enemy? I still have never heard a logical answer.
From where I’m sitting, the left thinks so only because Russia is run by anti-woke elements and is perceived as having helped Trump. They don’t put up with gender ideology and the other woke BS that has infected the West. That’s it. That’s the reason. It’s not the killing or the invading because if it were any of those things they would have hated the communist old Soviet Union, but they loved that, didn’t they?
And the neocon right hates Russia partially for the same reason, because at heart they’re leftists, but also because those psychos are itching for another bloody world war. So yeah, I know I’m supposed to hate Russia, but I’m having a tough time mustering the emotion. Hating the left and the neocons though? Now that’s easy!
Sadly, the fact that Zelensky and his supporters are happy to continue to kidnap Ukrainian men off the streets to be devoured by the Russian meat grinder says a lot about how little they, despite their endless virtue-signaling, actually value human life. For his part, Trump is trying to broker a deal between two untrustworthy dictators. That’s a tall order, even for him. But, given the willingness he displayed to walk away when things weren’t going the way they should have gone, if anyone can succeed, he can.
Obama was the culprit who started the current conflict with Russia during his Presidency.
Yes and Hitlery Clinton exacerbated dirtbagocrat left-wing opposition to all things Russian to its current pathological level. The entire Trump-Russia campaign smear took the discord Hussein had created between our two countries to deranged levels. Like Morefield noted, the D-Bags had a slobbering love affair with the Soviet Union (and all its satellites and allies.) That near worship extended to Russia up until Brokeback Hasbeen Osama fomented unnecessary discord between our two countries that was detrimental to both. Madame Hitlery turned discord into RDS to go along with TDS with her campaign smears of Trump/Russia
Then we had four years of that bullshit against President Trump and four years of anti-American sabotage and Russia bashing from Alzheimer Joe and his handlers.
President Trump has a mountain of shit to overcome and Russia as an enemy is just one turd in the pile.
He bolstered it, but the neocons started it in the 1990s. They just couldn’t give up the idea of a bogeyman, and Russia had to be it.
True … the collapse of the Soviet Union could have / should have been the greatest window of opportunity for world peace in at least the past 100 years … Instead, contrary to the way we embraced our former enemies after WWII and turned them into allies (Italy, Germany Japan), instead, this time around our elites threw gasoline on Russia, lit a match and rekindled the fire … For some strange reason, they seek endless conflict and war … the question is: why???
Cause they make money off war profiteering
Ukraine is a major conduit for European sex trafficking. Nazism is also on the rise, again, in the Ukraine and it wouldn’t surprise me if under his sweater, Zelensky himself is tatted up with swastikas.
America has nothing to gain In Ukraine. All we’re doing is tossing hundreds of billions of dollars down a sh*thole.
Money we the American people don’t have to give.
America should stay out of it and insist that Ukraine is a European problem and their problem to solve, not ours.
Those EUtocrats are learning the hard way that they can’t get America to pay their way and extend their unearned influence. They turned down beggar boy Zelenskyy’s please for $250 billion dollars in exchange for his opposition to President Trump’s America.
It sucks to be on your own and that’s what they are without the Don’s patronage. We Americans are loving it. I love watching the D-Bags melt down in impotent frustration.
Yes, but…What the Military Industrial Complex needs is endless war. This was a good deal to stimulate all that arms manufacture while getting money fraudulently returned to the right political fraudsters and Deep Staters.
Trump’s idea, that the USA as a COUNTRY should actually gain from a relationship has become radical.
If the Western Europeans are going to sacrifice their lives to fight for Ukraine than they are certainly out of their minds. THEY need to declare war on the Muslims that have invaded and who are killing and raping on their streets. Not give up their young men to kill other young European men.
Sept. 12, 1683, troops led by the Polish King Jan III Sobieski defeated the Ottoman Empire army commanded by Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa in the Battle of Vienna, thus defending Europe and Christianity against an Islamic deluge. It will take more people THIS time.
The European problem has become our problem, like it or not. We’ve given billioins to Zelensky, amid rumors that much of that money went to foreign real estate, and much of the billions worth of our equipment and ammunition wound up on international black markets. After all that, the little sh*t comes to Washington and tells off our president? He couldn’t even stop an invasion when the invaders ran out of gas!
Trump and Vance acted like spoiled children and embarassed the US. It may be a long time before I vote republican again.
Have you ever voted Republican?
Do Mitt Romney or Jeff Flake count?
Have a good trip.
HA HA HA! (evil laugh with an echo)
Can you please answer this question?
“ WHY does Russia have to be our enemy?”
That’s what this article is asking.
Thanks for letting us know. You won’t be missed.
You never were a Republican.
Yeah yeah yeah, NPC has “Orange Man Bad” looping endlessly in its code. I guess the USAID money spigot being turned off means the proglodytes can only afford cheap AI out of India these days.
Even by troll standards, you’re hopelessly retarded. IQs are supposed to have a lowest level somewhere above zero, you genetic dead end.
You’ve allowed your estrogen to cloud your judgement.
It was Zelensky who initiated that crap. He focked around and found out Trump doesn’t put up with ingratitude.
(Romney or Bush would’ve responded by kissing his ass.)
If your delicate sensibilities require submission over confrontation, go cry in the girl’s bathroom with John Boehner & Joy Reid.
Your just another Useful Idiot we have to put up with your ignorance and dependance upon the M.S. Media Bottom Feeders and sewer dwellers from CNN/NYT’s
Pal, I seriously doubt you’ve EVER voted Republican …
I suggest you watch the entire 50-minute session/news conference. That should give any honest person a different impression, and let them draw a very different conclusion from the one you just stated. If you have watched the whole thing and you still conclude that Trump and Vance acted like children, there’s likely no help for you.
Are you kidding? Trump and Vance embarrassed the USA? Hah! Not a chance! We Americans were cheering for them both ! I cannot remember when I last heard our leaders stand up for AMERICA and finally tell Europe, Zelensky and the Democrats in Congress where the Bear went thru the damn Buckwheat! ( Maybe since Reagan told “Mr. Gorbachev to tear down this wall ?”). And it’s about time!. What is it about America First that you don’t understand? Trump and Vance ran on America First and 77 million of us voted for it. Yet Democrats are hysterical that America will no longer pay for the outright slaughter of Ukrainian soldiers and civilians! They are outraged Trump wants PEACE, for God’s sake!!! Zelensky is a Thug and a pathetic human being who SOLD most of the weapons we sent him on the Black Market to other Thug Regimes all over the World. He OWNS two Mansions, 15 Houses, a luxury Apt in NYC so his wife can shop at Tiffany’s, plus at least two Yachts and he still has $1.4 Billion in the Bank and he begs for more and demands our Troops provide him Security from RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA. PUTIN is Zelensky’s BOGEYMAN . Every Tin Pot Tyrant needs a BOGEYMAN to terrify the Public and have a War. Trump and Vance are stopping this War and our sons and husbands and fathers arent going to be thrown into this Meatgrinder War! I’m SO proud of President Trump and our future president, JD Vance. God bless America. WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH.
Ukraine GDP same as Kansas.
Why do we care?
Why have we sent them that amount over three years?
All that needs to be done is to search the bank accounts of the Biden family and other democrat politicians that support Ukraine. Maybe some RINOS too. The money laundering is HUGE.
I agree.
how is it that some of our palpitations with no money and very menial jobs become elected to congress and in a matter of couple years they are milioners with about $175,000.00 yearly salary.
could it be that they get some of that money that they give out to the NGO’s or the others, is finding its way back to them?
I work very hard at my age of 86 and is giving most of my income away with taxes, is that fair?
I would suggest A LOT of Rinos too. And Lindsey Graham is almost certainly one of them. He’s had a sudden public change of heart about his rah-rah support of Zelenskyy because he’s up for re-election next year. He’s done this before on other issues, and then reverts to his old Rino self. MAYBE his change of heart in this case is real. But I’ll want to see it to believe it.
I’m having a hard time taking Zel seriously. Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that he looked like a street mime who forgot to put on his white gloves?
Or a pickpocket. I heard those mimes have deft hands.
I have to admit there is an aura of cluelessness about him. Why else would someone come to a formal international meeting wearing … sweatpants?
It amazes me that so many people say “I STAND WITH UKRAINE” – which, as far as I can see means more of what Zelensky wants – which is more war. Why?
IMO what he wants is more western money, which he may only get through more conflict. We’re still not sure where the money we’ve already sent him has ended up.
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.!!! I remember a poster back in the Sixties that said, “What if they started a War and nobody came?” Thanks to President Trump we’re going to find out…..
Isolationism brought us WW2 and 50 million dead people. We have an interest in Ukraine as a future market for our goods an services. We need markets!!!! or- we won’t have a good economy. We don’t need Russia as a friend, nor China; they are both negative factors to our economy. Zelensky may be a twit, but he has held off the Russians for over 3 years. We are not separating Russia from China; this has always been a myth. It was the Democrats that sabotaged the meeting. Eastern Europe with Ukraine, Poland Czechoslovakia and the Baltics are the future for trade. I have supported Trump for 8 years, but he needs to stop quoting Putin’s propaganda. Zelensky is a bit of an egomaniac, but don’t make up stories about him; JUST TELL THE TRUTH.
Yes, we most certainly do need Russia as a friend. And there’s no GOOD reason at this point that that should not happen. I suspect that you grew up during the Soviet era when we all had to practice hiding under our desks at school in case of nuclear attack (as if that would do any good). And when we were taught to hate the evil Soviet Empire. It was evil, no doubt. But Russia as it now exists is not the Soviet Empire, and it’s not even communist. Yes, Putin has surely done nasty things (especially when he was part of the KGB), and he has a totalitarian streak. But do a lot of Americans, as we’re seeing of late. And a lot of Americans in power have done very nasty things (various Presidents, and the CIA, particularly). It’s largely on the U.S. that they set up the situation with NATO advancement and controlling Ukraine’s internal politics and encouraging them to fight and obliterate their own Russian-speaking people, which finally made it intolerable for Putin, and he fought back.
I suspect that Putin has changed from long days past, perhaps to a reasonably large degree. That happens. Trump certainly has changed, and he’s a much better man now than he used to be. Putin — anti-work and pro-Christianity — has more in common with us than you probably will ever want to believe. Trump likely has in mind to normalize relations with Putin/Russia and through various means try to gradually get them to pull away from China. That would be not only immensely to the U.S.’s advantage, but it could save what’s left of Western civilization.
“Expressing the desire to be civil with Russia has become an unpardonable sin, at least to leftists and neocons.”
This started right about the time Russia abandoned communism. We could have brought Russia into the community of nations – that’s what Reagan wanted to do. Unfortunately, George H W Bush didn’t see things the same way, and so a grand opportunity for world peace was lost.
WHY does Russia have to be our enemy? – Because THEY ARE in their own words! They are our enemies [1] and this author is a Putinversteiner [2]!
1. http://judeochristianamerica.org/RussoNazism.htm
2. http://judeochristianamerica.org/OpenLetter/ToTrump2025.htm
I applaud Trump and Vance for the way they handled zelensky. I can’t stand the little creep.
However, I am bitterly disappointed that they didn’t tear starmlin to pieces with their bare hands, when he went in there and lied to their faces, behaving like Uriah Heep when we all know he hates them both. If he’d touched me like he kept touching DT, I’d have slapped the 💩 out of him.
Creepy little slime turd.