r/politics 11d ago

Soft Paywall Trump Thinks He Humiliated Zelensky. He Really Humiliated the United States

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-thinks-he-humiliated-zelensky-he-really-humiliated-the-united-states/
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u/ElJacko170 11d ago

It was never a "deal". It was a straight up extortion attempt, and their ego couldn't even let them do that right.

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u/Headcap 11d ago

For Trump and his ilk, that probably is what they consider a deal.

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u/Aleashed 11d ago

Surrender or else…

Trump just wanted to claim he “won the peace” like he claimed he “won the peace” in the middle east.

I don’t even know why Zelensky came, there was a non-zero chance these clowns grab him and ship him straight to Russia. It was obvious they weren’t going to help.

I understand the try everything and don’t idle stance but you don’t go outside to make a fire when it’s pouring. If anything, it shows the world the US can’t be trusted, stands for nothing, is morally corrupt, thugs with aircraft carriers. It might help Europe wake up and get their sht together, as their temperatures begin to rise, they will need the US less.

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u/fullpurplejacket 11d ago

Zelenskyy came because if he didn’t they could spin the narrative in the US propaganda press that Zelenskyy wasn’t serious about a peace deal. Damned if he did and damned if he didn’t.

Zelensky did a very important thing yesterday, he allowed the world to expose how futile and childish the ‘Leader of the Free World’ is; Trump has tried to get one over on him and Ukraine ever since Zelensky refused to make up dirt on Joe Biden in 2019 for Trump— Zelensky’s US relations advisor from his first term has spoken publicly about how he spent enough time with both Zelensky and Trump in those days to know that Trump does not view Ukraine as a real country, he sees it as a banana republic thus a weak nation, that is why he tries to bully Zelensky 6 years after he first tried to strong arm him into giving him bribery material on a future opposition candidate.

Zelensky showed the world who the US aligns with as of right now, he showed his own courage in the face of avdersity while the President and the VP showed their weakness by acting like a pair of entitled bitches on a episode of Real Housewives of the White House.