Zelensky Trashes Trump and Vance, Signs Artillery Shells in PA
You know that if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to America, trashed VP Kamala Harris & Gov. Tim Walz, and signed artillery shells, the left’s heads would explode.
I wouldn’t like it if Netanyahu did it, and I surely don’t like it that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky did precisely that this weekend.
Zelensky is in America to address the United Nations. The media and the left (but I repeat myself) jumped at the chance to pamper him with attention and love.
Oh, the Biden administration flew Zelensky to Pennsylvania, a battleground state, on a U.S. Air Force C-17.
Gah, I hate that I feel this way since I’ve held Ukraine close to my heart since 2014. Oh, well.
Zelensky sat down with Joshua Yaffa of The New Yorker and criticized former President Donald Trump and VP candidate Sen. JD Vance.
Zelensky will present his “victory plan” to President Joe Biden, Harris, and Trump.
Well, Zelensky had some harsh words for Trump and Vance:
During the Presidential debate, moderators asked Trump whether he wanted Ukraine to win against Russia, and he sidestepped the question. He just said, “I want the war to stop.” It must have troubled you to hear his answer and to consider the prospect of his winning.Trump makes political statements in his election campaign. He says he wants the war to stop. Well, we do, too. This phrase and desire, they unite the world; everyone shares them. But here’s the scary question: Who will shoulder the costs of stopping the war? Some might say that the Minsk Agreements either stopped or froze the fighting at some point. But they also gave the Russians a chance to arm themselves even better, and to strengthen their fake claim over our territories they occupied.But isn’t that yet more cause for alarm?My feeling is that Trump doesn’t really know how to stop the war even if he might think he knows how. With this war, oftentimes, the deeper you look at it the less you understand. I’ve seen many leaders who were convinced they knew how to end it tomorrow, and as they waded deeper into it, they realized it’s not that simple.Apart from Trump’s own reluctance to talk about Ukrainian victory, he has chosen J. D. Vance as his Vice-Presidential candidate.He is too radical.Vance has come out with a more precise plan to—To give up our territories.Your words, not mine. But, yes, that’s the gist of it.His message seems to be that Ukraine must make a sacrifice. This brings us back to the question of the cost and who shoulders it. The idea that the world should end this war at Ukraine’s expense is unacceptable. But I do not consider this concept of his a plan, in any formal sense. This would be an awful idea, if a person were actually going to carry it out, to make Ukraine shoulder the costs of stopping the war by giving up its territories. But there’s certainly no way this could ever happen. This kind of scenario would have no basis in international norms, in U.N. statute, in justice. And it wouldn’t necessarily end the war, either. It’s just sloganeering.
Zelensky loosened up on Trump a tad, saying he never encountered a Vance-like attitude with Trump.
“I should say that it hasn’t been like this with Trump,” said Zelensky. “He and I talked on the phone, and his message was as positive as it could be, from my point of view. ‘I understand,’ ‘I will lend support,’ and so on.”
Zelensky used the “domino effect” our past leaders used to justify going into Korea and Vietnam. You know, if this country falls to communism, then the whole area falls and communism everywhere.
[Vance and others who share his views] should clearly understand that the moment they start trading on our territory is the moment they start pawning America’s interests elsewhere: the Middle East, for example, as well as Taiwan and the U.S. relations with China. Whichever President or Vice-President raises this prospect—that ending the war hinges on cementing the status quo, with Ukraine simply giving up its land—should be held responsible for potentially starting a global war. Because such a person would be implying that this kind of behavior is acceptable.I don’t take Vance’s words seriously, because, if this were a plan, then America is headed for global conflict. It will involve Israel, Lebanon, Iran, Taiwan, China, as well as many African countries. That approach would broadcast to the world the following implicit rule: I came, I conquered, now this is mine. It will apply everywhere: land claims and mineral rights and borders between nations. It would imply that whoever asserts control over territory—not the rightful owner but whoever came in a month or a week ago, with a machine gun in hand—is the one who’s in charge. We’ll end up in a world where might is right. And it will be a completely different world, a global showdown.
Here’s Zelensky watching Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro signing artillery shells for Ukraine. He also signs the shells.
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