LOS ANGELES.–U.S. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, 62 and his 52-year-old Foreign Secretary David Lammy, have gone all in on supplying Ukraine troops in any post-war security situation. Starmer and Lammy speak for themselves, not necessarily for the House of Commons or House of Lords, all of whom have varying opinions 78-year-old President Donald Trump’s peace plans with 72-year-old Russian PresidentVladimir Putin. Starmer knows that as of Jan. 31, 2020, the U.K. left the EU if what’s known as Brexit, something fueled by the public’s discontent with the government’s liberal immigration policies. Brexit supporters like 60-year-old Nigel Farage said the ordinary British citizens were fed up with Mideast terrorists and immigration polices stemming from proxy war in Syria and the Middle East. Eventually, British citizens voted to end their 27-year run in the EU.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, 66, faced with an uphill battle to save his job this Sunday, got so frustrated in Paris with discussions of what type of security arrangements should happen in a post-war Ukraine. Trump is actively involved in ending the war with Putin, something that’s thrown many EU officials for a loop. When they backed 82-year-old President Joe Biden’s proxy war in Ukraine with the Kremlin, they never imagined how things could reverse themselves with Trump coming back to office. EU officials all knew that Trump wanted to end the Ukraine War and reset U.S.-Russian relations but, somehow, act dumbfounded now that the peace process has begun. Ukraine’s 47-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky acts clueless, plays victim, telling the EU that Trump won’t give him a seat at the table. Zelensky didn’t initiate peace talks with Putin.
Trump has been accused by the fake news of saying Zelensky started the Feb. 24, 2022 war, but that’s not what Trump said. Trump only said that Zelensky had a choice of trying to settle the conflict peacefully and opted for war to get his territory back. But when Putin moved 200,000 Russian troops into Ukraine, it was to stop Zelensky from stockpiling arms from the U.S. So, when it comes to who started the conflict, it’s a two-way street with the U.S. giving and Ukraine accepting deadly weapons opposed by the Kremlin. Biden’s White House used the talking point that Putin’s war was “unprovoked and unjustified.” Biden repeated the talking points because he didn’t want to get blame for arming Ukraine to the teeth over Kremlin objections. Biden acted like he did nothing to provoke Putin and justify the war, to hide the obvious that he armed Ukraine.
Pro-Ukraine war newspapers continue to repeat Biden’s talking point that the war was “unprovoked and unjustified,” when, in fact, it was provoked and justified, at least how the Kremlin saw it. Some foreign newspapers like to give the man-or-woman-in-the-streets interview to gauge support for the Ukraine War. “I think this the wrong policy and the wrong accusations of Ukraine. They are accusing the victim, and he [Trump] is taking our enemy’s side,” said 50-year-old Oksana Krylova. But how much factual information do ordinary Ukrainians get about the war than Zelensky daily briefings? Zelensky gives daily briefings mimizing the role U.S. cash-and-arms play in the war, but, more importantly preventing ordinary citizens from knowinmg the Kremlin has won the war. All Zelensky can say is that he needs more time, cash-and-weapons to prevail against Russia.
Zelensky made the cardinal mistake of stabbing Trump in the back at the Munich Security Conference, telling delegates that Trump no longer backed European security. If Trump backed EU security, he would continue the war because Ukraine defends European security. Zelensky’s arguments are so convoluted he can’t understand them, saying he wants to join NATO but encourages the EU to fund its own army to protect its borders. Zelensky panders to the worst fears of former Soviet satellites like Ukraine and the Baltic State that have great fear of Russia. But does anyone in the Baltics really believe Zelensky’s claptrap that Ukraine defends European democracy? Why would Zelensky continue to gain admission to NATO if he thought he could defend European democracy? Everyone in Europe knows that only the U.S. can defend Europe against any real threats.
Ukrainian citizens don’t have the real story of what’s going on the 600-mile battle front where Russia continues to make steady gains taking more Ukrainian territory. Zelensky made a huge blunder not controlling his mouth in denouncing Trump, when Europe must side with Trump, not Zelensky. If Trump makes peace with Putin, whatever the losses to Ukraine, what’s the EU supposed to do, breaking off their relations with the United States? If you asked Zelensky, he’s tell you that Trump does the bidding of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. All the sympathy showed to Zelensky doesn’t mean that the EU can stab Trump in the back for seeking peace in Ukraine. Zelensky refuses to admit he lost the war over two years ago with Russia making steady gains taking more Ukrainian sovereign territory. Trump says the war is not winnable and must come to an end.
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’d editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
