LOS ANGELES.–Accusing Trump of living in a Russian “disinformation space,” 47-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky shows off his prodigious smoke blowing, used from the Feb. 24, 2022 start of the Ukraine War, using his military Information Minister Kyrlyo Budandov to manufacture one lie-and-after another to talk 82-year-old former President Joe Biden into going to war with the Kremlin. Budanov said at the outset of the invasion that 72-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin suffered from a terminal illness and the Russian military was near collapse. Zelensky, and his Kiev propaganda team, are competent good at making up fake narratives but not fighting Russia on its own soil. Zelensky liked telling the Ukrainian people nightly how many Russians he was killing on the battlefield, telling them he was winning the war, when, in fact, he was losing valuable sovereign territory.
Trump called Zelensky “grossly incompetent” for going to war with the Kremlin when he could have negotiated a settlement in March 2022. Putin offered to end the conflict, withdraw most of his troops, if Zelensky recognized Russian sovereignty over Crimea and independence of Donetsk and Luhansk. Zelensky said “no” and went to war with U.S. cash-and-arms with the Kremlin. Trump called Zelensky a “dictator without elections,” noting that Zelensky under martial law has postponed elections indefinitely. Zelensky publicly denounced Trump at last week’s Munich Security Conference, telling delegates that Trump no longer supported European security. Yet Zelensky continues to ask for NATO membership, knowing that the U.S. supplies the lion’s share of the firepower to NATO. Zelensky encouraged Europe to start in own army to protect its territory from Putin.
Telling Trump he lives in a “Russian disinformation space” is the same fake arguments used by former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2016 to convince voters that Trump was a “Putin puppet,” someone the American public couldn’t trust. What’s clear with Zelensky’s propaganda team is they’re advised by Democrat political consultants, the same ones that created the “Russian hoax.” Every time Zelensky wants to reject Trump’s ideas, he accuses Trump of being brainwashed by Putin. But the real one brainwashing his people is Zelensky, insisting he’s winning a perpetual war. Biden never figured out that the proxy war with the Kremlin was not winnable. So, subsidizing a war with the Kremlin would wind up destroying Ukraine, only serving the mission of paying Zelensky endless billions from the U.S. Treasury. Yet Zelensky says Trump lives in a Russian “disinformation space.”
Zelensky’s clever disinformation and propaganda style presents him as a victim of Russian aggression when, as Trump pointed out, he could have made a deal with Putin to end the Feb. 24, 2022 invasion. “Think of it, a modestly successful comedian, Volodymyr Zelensky, talked the United State into spending $350 Billion Dollars, to go into a war that couldn’t be won, that never had to start, but a War that he without the U.S. and TRUMP,” will never b e able to settle,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. Whatever the outcome of U.S.-Russian peace talks, it’s clear that Zelensky has the EU betraying the U.S., all to give their backing of Zelensky’s war with the Kremlin. But it’s clear that the EU is completely confused, not knowing what to do with U.S. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, not even part of the EU, saying he would commit U.K. troops for a post-war security.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who faces an uphill race to stay in office Sunday, left the Paris meeting about Ukrainian security, saying the EU was way ahead of itself before a peace deal was reached. Zelensky has turned the EU against Trump, acting like they would pay for Ukraine’s war with the Kremlin if Trump backs out. European countries were blindsided by Trump making peace with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Any understanding of the 2024 presidential campaign knew that Trump’s top priority was ending the Ukraine War and resetting relations with the Kremlin. Now EU leaders are asking what they’re supposed to do? Trump’s moves with Putin to restore U.S.-Russian relations and end the Ukraine War should come as no surprise to anyone. Zelensky has been scrambling to turn the EU against the U.S., something astonishing in itself.
What would a small, battered, war-torn country be doing bashing an American president, saying he’s living in Russia’s “disinformation space?” How many more insults does he expect Trump to tolerate, or, for that matter, for the EU to realize Zelensky isn’t playing with a full deck. Zelensky is ripping his No. 1 benefactor all because former President Joe Biden is no longer in office. What lunatic would think, in Zelensky’s position, he can turn the EU against the U.S. EU officials know that without U.S. backing the EU can provide Zelensky with any post-war guarantees. “Zelensky better move fast or he is not going to a Country left,” Trump posted on Truth Social. There years of war has devastated Ukraine’s infrastructure and economy, not to mention the deaths of Ukrainian citizens. Trump wants to stop the carnage on both sides of the war.
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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.
