LOS ANGELES.–Ukraine’s 46-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky used all his guile to gaslight President-elect Donald Trump and Congress to continue the failed Ukraine war. Zelensky’s partner-in-crime, 82-year-old President Joe Biden, has been missing-in-action, refusing to talk with the press after authorizing Zelensky to use ATACMs and other long-range missiles to attack Russian targets, prompting new concerns about WW III or nuclear war. Russian President Vladimir Putin revised his nuclear first-strike policy with non-nuclear powers like Ukraine who currently partners with nuclear powers like the U.S. to fund proxy war against the Kremlin. Zelensky told Fox News that the U.S. cannot lose the war with the Kremlin, because of the lost of prestige and credibility worldwide. So, Zelensky admits that the U.S., in fact, is at war with the Kremlin, just like Ukraine.
Zelensky’s desperation grows daily because he has lost the war with the Kremlin, something the Biden White House refuses to admit, especially in an election year. But cooler heads in the U.S. must face the undeniable reality that Biden’s plan to vanquish the Russian Federation was nothing more than a sick pipe dream. Zelensky can’t admit defeat because he would be chased out of Kiev with torches-and-pitchforks. Zelensky thinks he can still browbeat the U.S. Congress into continuing a failed war that destroys U.S.-Russian relations, depleted the U.S. Treasury, and, most importantly, continues to destroy Ukraine. Once Zelensky can no longer hide his abysmal failure, his days as Ukraine President will be over soon. Kiev’s 52-year-old Mayor Vitali Klitsckho is ready to take over at anytime. Zelensky fears that Trump will tell him he must enter talks and trade land for peace.
Zelensky has made many excuses to justify the war for the last three years, including that Putin seeks to reestablish the old Soviet Union, annexing former Soviet satellites all a part of NATO. Zelensky has been begging NATO for fast-track membership because he’d like to see NATO do the fighting with the Kremlin. Zelensky and Biden both share the failure in Ukraine because they’ve gaslighted the public, switching excuses why the U.S. should fund the bankrupt Kiev government and war with the Kremlin. Zelensky and Biden told Congress and the U.S. that Ukraine defends European democracy, when, in fact, that’s the job of NATO. Zelensky was told Ukraine isn’t ready to join NATO because it hasn’t met its democracy and fiscal solvency standards needed for membership. Yet Zelensky continues to push for NATO membership knowing it’s a red line for Russia.
Trump has a lot of work to do mending fences with Putin, especially after Zelensky started on Biden’s orders firing U.S. and British long-range missiles into Russia. Putin knows that Biden’s term ends on Jan. 20, 2025 but realizes Trump can do very little to stop the madness until he takes office. Zelensky wants to cajole Trump, like he did Biden, into backing a failed war that destroyed U.S.-Russian relations, ending decades of hard-fought diplomacy, détente and arms control. Biden was the first U.S. president to go to war against the Kremlin, turning Russia from a cooperative global partner into a mortal enemy, all to back Ukraine. Ukraine has no national security significance to the U.S. but Russia does. Trump must clean up Biden’s failed Ukraine policy, acknowledge that funding proxy war against the Kremlin was the biggest blunder in U.S. history.
Zelensky thinks if he says the U.S. cannot lose the war in Ukraine, he’s admitting to Putin and the world that it’s the U.S. war, not Ukraine’s. “It will not be simple, but I think if, to use all the issues that the United States has, yes, he can. Because he is much stronger that Putin. He’s stronger. The United States is stronger. Economy, stronger. The United States has a very big influence,” Zelensky told Fox News Trey Yingst. Zelensky tries to gaslight Trump into believing it’s in the U.S. interest to continue fighting with Putin. Trump doesn’t want a fight with Putin, he wants to end the war in Ukraine. Zelensky wants to continue getting billions in U.S. aid to fund his bankrupt government and the war. Zelensky fears a coup d’etat in Kiev when the public realizes he’s lost the war with the Kremlin, but, more importantly, lost 20-25% of Ukraine’s sovereign territory.
Whatever happens in any peace talks, Zelensky isn’t going to get back all the territory he lost in three years of war. Putin gave Zelensky an opportunity in March 2022 to end the conflict by recognizing Russia’s sovereignty over Crimea and accept the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk. So, when it comes to peace talks, Zelensky’s won’t get back all the territory he lost over the last three years. Zelensky says Ukraine will lose the war without U.S. funding. Well, he lost the war and continues to destroy Ukraine by making unrealistic demands and continuing to battle the Kremlin. Trump’s job will be to get both warring factions to the table to strike a deal. Zelensky knows he can’t gaslight Trump but if he refuses to deal, Trump has no choice but cut Ukraine off continued funding. Trump knows the U.S. must get back to normal diplomatic relations with the Kremlin.
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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.
