LOS ANGELES.–Ukraine’s 46-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky called former President Donald Trump now that forecasters say 81-year-old President Joe Biden won’t be president in the near future. Zelensky, more than anything, wants U.S. cash to continue funding his bankrupt government and the war with the Kremlin. But Zelensky knows that Trump has a very different take on how to solve the Ukraine conflict, knowing it’s unrealistic, counterproductive and dangerous for world peace to continue the conflict. Zelensky had asked Trump to visit Kiev, thinking foolishly, naively, that he would cajole Trump into supporting his war with the Kremlin. Zelensky knows now that Trump and his 39-year-old Vice President J.D. Vance both strongly oppose the Ukraine War and want the conflict settled at the peace table through negotiation and compromise at the earliest possible time.
Zelensky’s biggest worry about Trump is that he won’t support giving his Kiev government a blank check to pay its bills and fund the war. Trump has told voters he would solve the Ukraine conflict in 24 hours after winning the Nov. 6, 2024 election. Zelensky has insisted that 71-year-old President Vladimir Putin must be prosecuted at The Hague for war crimes and pay war reparations to the Kiev government. Trump knows with conditions like those the war would go on indefinitely. Zelensky has been able, because of Biden’s cognitive decline, to gaslight him into a fake narrative that Ukraine saves European democracy. War-battered and bankrupt Ukraine can’t save itself, certainly not Europe from Russian encroachment. Trump understands that the conflict must be settled so the U.S. can resume normal diplomacy with the Kremlin.
Since Biden decided to join Zelensky’s war with the Kremlin, U.S.-Russian relations have deteriorated to a worse state than the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Biden was the first and only post-WW II president to go to war against Russia, certainly the first to end diplomacy, détente and arms control. With 62-year-old Secretary of State Antony Blinken admitting today that Iran’s break-out time to an A-bomb is only a week or two, it means the U.S. must resume normal diplomatic ties with the Kremlin. Before Biden took office Jan. 20, 2021, Trump had cooperative, pragmatic ties with the Kremlin, working on host of cooperative ventures. Once Biden took office, he’s done everything possible to alienate Russia and Communist China, leaving the U.S. on a war footing. Biden’s warmongering has been covered up by Democrats and the press but endangers the planet.
Biden’s insulting public remarks about Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping has only made diplomacy next to impossible. Calling Putin a “murderous madman” at the July 9 NATO summit in Washington, D.C., European Union and NATO allies looked on in horror that Biden could be so antagonistic. No matter how much Biden has pushed the EU and NATO to back the U.S. proxy war with the Kremlin, no one in the EU or NATO want to fight Ukraine’s battles, or, for that matter, want to extend NATO membership to Ukraine. NATO’a 65-year-old Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg didn’t pull any punches telling Zelensky that Ukraine must clean up its corruption problems, end the war and work on its economy before NATO would even consider possible future membership. NATO and EU members watch a slow-moving train wreck with Zelensky and Biden’s war.
Zelensky knows that he can’t push Trump around the way he’s worked Biden over the last two-and-a-half years since the war started Feb. 24, 2022. Trump said he had a good conversation with Zelensky, knowing that he would impose a settlement on Russia and Ukraine. No one from the Biden administration said a thing about Trump engaging in international diplomacy before he’s inaugurated. Biden and Blinken know that there’s no excuse for the belligerent diplomacy taken by the U.S. Biden and Blinken claim that he wants to get unlawfully detained U.S. citizens out of Russian jails but they continue the war that make prisoner swaps all but impossible. How does the Biden White House expect to get cooperation from Russia when they fund proxy war in Ukraine? Zelensky understands that Trump would take a very different and more active approach in settling the conflict.
Biden currently fights for his political life with many of the nation’s leading Democrats asking him to end his 2024 presidential bid. House and Senate Democrats fear a wipeout for down-ballot races if Biden continues on the ticket. Even if Biden’s replaced by 58-year-old Vice President Kamala Harris, there are no guarantees. But clearly Biden is not fit to run for four more years, whether Democrats can pull off the unlikely election or not. ‘I wished him strength and absolute safety in the future,” Zelensky said of his conversation with Trump. Trump told him he supports Ukraine but would take a different approach to ending the conflict than Biden. Trump doesn’t believe the rubbish that the U.S. and Ukraine will defeat the Russian Federation. Trump wants Zelensky to get real that to end the conflict he’s have to give something to get something, like any successful negotiation.
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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.
