Cracks in the Zelensky façade have begun to emerge showing that the Ukraine War has not gone well for the pro-U.S. Kiev government. Zelensky delivers nightly video messages to anyone who’ll listen, especially to the Ukrainian people, giving what amounts to a cover-up of what’s really happened on the battlefield with its five-moth long war with the Russian Federation. Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.), the only Ukrainian-born member of Congress, called Zelensky out recently for his unending PR offensive that doesn’t give any real facts about the war. Zelensky and President Joe Biden, 79, pretend that they’re beating the Russian Federation on the battlefield, never mentioning all the battlefield losses and amount of sovereign territory controlled by the Kremlin. Putin said today that he was not allowing the West to push Russia backward because of all the sanctions and technology restrictions.
Spartz asked Zelensky and his 40-year-old Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba to stop playing politics and discus honestly their plan to end the war. Only a few weeks ago, Ukrainian intelligence, under Zelensky’s orders, said that Putin was on his last legs due to terminal illness, not to mention that Putin’s closet advisers were planning a coup d’etat. U.S. and EU press gobble up Zelensky’s nonsense, barely questioning the absurdity of all the disinformation spread by the Kiev government. Spartz wants Zelensky to be honest with the U.S. currently paying Ukraine’s government salaries and supplying all the lethal weapons to fight the Russian Federation. When you look at Zelensky’s smoke blowing since the war started Feb. 24, U.S. elected officials should question factual accuracy of his public comments. Zelensky said Ukraine is on the frontlines defending democracy against totalitarian tyranny.
U.S. elected officials have been buffaloed by the Biden administration about what led up to the Ukraine war, but, more importantly, the U.S. aim in the war. Biden revealed his true intentions with the Pentagon March 26 when he said in Warsaw, Poland that Putin should no longer remain as Russian president. Then, one month later, 69-year-old Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said April 26 in Ramstein, Germany that the aim of the U.S. military in Ukraine was to degrade the Russian army to the point it could not wage war. So, when it comes to how Putin and the Kremlin see the war, they take it seriously because of Biden’s comments. Ukraine, even with sophisticated weapons, cannot really compete with the Russian army, watching Ukraine lose more sovereign territory daily. Ukraine has no way out of the war except through the peace table because they’ve lost so much land they won’t get it back.
Spartz’s comments about Biden and Zelensky playing politics in Ukraine, raises more doubts about the outcome. Everything Zelensky has said defies credibility, pretending that the war effort has gone according to plan. Zelensky only talks about the fact that Putin could not conquer Kiev in the first few days of the conflict, as proof of Ukraine’s success. But, in reality, Putin has seized the entire Black Sea coast and all of Ukraine’s ports, partitioning the country, essentially land-locking Kiev. Zelensky never admits to his battlefield failures, only talks in vague generalities about saving democracy and defeating tyranny in the Ukraine War. No member of U.S. Congress other than Spartz has held Zelensky to account for his battlefield failures, but, more importantly, the unverified disinformation about Putin’s alleged terminal illness or coup brewing with the Kremlin ranks.
Head of the U.K.’s Chief of Defense Staff, Sir. Tony Radakin, said yesterday that all information about Putin’s medical condition or prospects of a coup are “wishful thinking,” attesting to the fake news coming from Kiev. Radakin was diplomatic calling it “wishful thinking,” because it’s part of Zelensky’s information warfare campaign against the Russian Federation. Spartz recognized for some time that Zelensky’s statements just don’t add up, no matter how much people want to believe him. “I think some of these comments that ‘he’s not well’ or ‘surely someone is going to assassinate him,’ they are wishful thinkng,” said Radakin. Taken together with a track record of Zelensky’s fake statements to the press, it shows that the Kiev cannot be trusted to give any facts about the war. Spartz was the first U.S. elected official to ask Democrats and Republicans to question Zelensky.
U.S. officials need to listen and stop denigrating Rep. Spartz who wants to protect U.S. national security in Ukraine. Zelensky and his PR team have been blowing smoke since the war started, asking for everything but the kitchen sink for the U.S. and NATO. If Zelensky had his way, the U.S. and NATO would be fighting WW III on the European Continent. Paying the Zelensky $54 billion to cover Kiev’s government salaries and the war effort cannot go on indefinitely. Spartz wants the White House and Congress to get smart about what they’re doing in Ukraine. Zelensky has gladly taken all the U.S. billions to fund himself, his cronies and the bankrupt Ukraine government. With all the propaganda and disinformation coming out of Kiev, it’s time for the White House and Congress to take a second look at U.S. strategy. Trying to defeat the Russian Federation is no strategy for Ukraine or the U.S.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
