‘Living in a Bubble’: How Zelensky
Miscalculated Trump
Posted By: Moritz55, 3/1/2025 9:17:53 AM
For three years in the United States, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was heralded as the second coming of Winston Churchill. He earned standing ovations from Congress, posed for glossy photo shoots, and received regular envoys of politicians, celebrities, and press from the West. But one moment in the Oval Office may have ended it all. Zelensky publicly crossed his greatest ally, calling into question before the press whether President Trump and Vice President Vance, now seeking to negotiate a peace deal, really understood both the land war in his country and his enemy, Russian President Vladimir Putin. He was summarily kicked out of the White House.
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A handful of European leaders are coming under the microscope of critics on social media for issuing pro-Ukraine messages with the exact same wording following Ukraine President Vlodomyr Zelenskyy's fiery meeting with President Donald Trump on Friday. "Your dignity honours the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President @ZelenskyyUa. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace," read verbatim social media posts from at least five different European leaders since Friday.
Zelensky the Fool
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A while back I made mention of one of my favorite short stories: Gimple the Fool.
It was written by Isaac Bashevis Singer, about a baker who becomes the laughingstock of his village, for insisting on believing the chastity of his unfaithful wife who had sex with half the town and multiple children by other men, though she adamantly insisted the kids were Gimple’s.
Today, I’d like to amend the title to something a bit more newsworthy:
Zelensky the Fool.
Because that’s what Ukrainian President Volodmyr Zelensky is now, especially since he insulted America and President Donald Trump in that televised Oval Office meeting.
Friday's extraordinary Oval Office meeting between President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy went off the rails, leaving hopes for a U.S.-brokered peace deal between Russia and Ukraine in question. Here are some reasons why things went wrong, and where it leaves efforts to end the war. 1. Zelenskyy does not grasp—or deliberately ignores—the bitter truth: Those with whom he feels most affinity (Western globalists, the American Left, the Europeans) have little power in 2025 to help him. And those whom he obviously does not like or seeks to embarrass (as with his Scranton, Penn. campaign-like visit in September 2024)
For three years in the United States, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was heralded as the second coming of Winston Churchill. He earned standing ovations from Congress, posed for glossy photo shoots, and received regular envoys of politicians, celebrities, and press from the West.
But one moment in the Oval Office may have ended it all.
Zelensky publicly crossed his greatest ally, calling into question before the press whether President Trump and Vice President Vance, now seeking to negotiate a peace deal, really understood both the land war in his country and his enemy, Russian President Vladimir Putin. He was summarily kicked out of the White House.
Volodymyr Zelensky did not wear a suit and the Ukrainian president did not sign a minerals deal with the United States, either. Instead, the wartime leader was unceremoniously kicked out of the White House after tangling with President Trump and Vice President Vance.
Trump has been pushing for an end to the land war in Europe since returning to office, meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer this week to find a path to peace. Those meetings went well. His sit-down with Zelensky did not.
The breakdown occurred when Zelensky called into question the efficacy of diplomatic efforts with Russian President
Trump tells Zelensky he’s ‘gambling
with WWIII’ in heated, high-stakes Oval
Office meeting 12 replies
with WWIII’ in heated, high-stakes Oval
Office meeting 12 replies
President Trump told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that he was “gambling with World War III” during a fiery Oval Office exchange Friday.
The high-stakes visit went off the rails shortly after Vice President JD Vance tore into Zelensky for seeming to slight his American counterparts.
The VP said it was “disrespectful for Zelensky to come into the Oval Office, litigating in front of the American media” — setting off a shouting match among the men. “Right now, you guys are going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because you have manpower problems, you should be thanking the president for wanting to bring an end to the conflict,” Vance said.
The White House press corps has nerve complaining about access to the president after it raised barely a peep in protest at Joe Biden being practically AWOL his entire presidency.
Biden didn’t even hold a press conference until two months in.
The handful of press conferences he did conduct were a bad joke, in which he would take three or four questions from preselected reporters, whose names and photographs were printed on a card. Yet he still got fawning praise from the Washington media.
The worst insult they could muster was “boring,” but the Baltimore Sun even spun that into “Biden’s superpower.
Who Caused the Counter-Revolution?
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At some point, some president was going to have to stop the unsustainable spending and borrowing.
To have any country left, some president would eventually have had to restore a nonexistent border and stop the influx of 3 million illegal aliens a year.
Some commander-in-chief finally would have to try to stop the theater wars abroad.
But any president who dared to do any of that would be damned for curbing the madness that his predecessors fueled. And so none did -- until now.
Most writers are familiar with three words made famous by novelist Stephen King: “Kill your darlings.”
Why am I telling you this? Because it directly relates to what Tesla CEO Elon Musk and President Donald Trump are trying to do with the federal government.
King’s writing advice isn’t as violent as it sounds. He’s speaking of the well-known concept that when it comes to words, less is more. Brevity is better. Yet, that forces writers to take a hard look at their own creation. Once something is on paper (or the computer screen) it becomes hard to “kill” it. It’s yours, after all. The same holds true of the federal government,
President Donald Trump's director of national intelligence is taking action against federal employees within the intelligence community for alleged ties to explicit conversations on an internal agency messaging board. DNI Tulsi Gabbard put out a directive Tuesday to terminate the employment of and revoke the security clearances of employees who participated in obscene and explicit chatrooms on the National Security Agency's (NSA) "Intelink" messaging platform.
"There are over 100 people from across the intelligence community that contributed to and participated in... what is really just an egregious violation of trust
Zelenskyy agrees to tentative Trump minerals
deal, plans to visit DC later this week: report 8 replies
deal, plans to visit DC later this week: report 8 replies
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has agreed to a draft of a minerals deal with the White House on Tuesday, according to reports. Reuters reported on Tuesday that the Ukrainian leader plans to travel to D.C. on Friday to meet with President Donald Trump after the officials agreed to the terms of the deal.
The pact, which would involve giving the U.S. access to natural resources in exchange for America’s support of Ukraine amid its war with Russia, was days in the making. Trump said on Friday that his administration was "pretty close" to striking a deal, and on Monday, he hinted that a meeting between him and Zelenskyy was imminent.
Trump’s Ukrainian Tightrope
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To find an impossible peace between Ukraine and Russia we must understand the recent history of the war and the European and American roles in it. So, Americans should revisit some fundamental realities and questions from which to remember before going forward. Why Did Putin Invade Ukraine in 2022? Putin did start the war. Trump’s trolling aside, he knows that because he correctly pointed out that Putin invaded his neighbors in three of the last four administrations—but not his own, given Trump’s deterrence.The most obvious answer why Putin did is that he thought he easily could. But why in 2022—as he had in 2008 and 2014?
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The Ukrainian president announced the country is "ready to sign" a minerals deal with the US. The comments come two days after the Ukrainian president, U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice-president JD Vance had a threeway fight in the Oval Office on Friday. Zelensky's statement also added that the signing of the deal would "be the first step toward security guarantees."
"We are ready to sign the minerals agreement," he said in a post on X. "It will be the first step toward security guarantees."
"But it’s not enough, and we need more than just that," he added. "A ceasefire without security guarantees is dangerous for Ukraine."
"We’ve been fighting
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is holding a Ukraine summit in London today with EU leaders, following two phone calls with President Trump.
According to the outline Starmer proposed on BBC News, following the disastrous Zelenskyy meeting in the White House, the British PM called President Trump and also Emmanuel Macron. According to his statements, Starmer told Trump he would work with Macron +2 unidentified countries (a “coalition of the willing”), to organize an EU security force for a Ukraine ceasefire; then the group will require Trump to provide a U.S. troop “backstop” as an insurance policy.
Starmer completely ignores the NATO provocations against Russia that preceded the military operation
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he will step down as leader of the war-ravaged country in exchange for one thing, as he confirms his officials are talking to Donald Trump's administration again after an explosive White House meeting.
Speaking at London Stansted Airport after a day meeting with European and world leaders and King Charles, Zelensky said his country's freedom is "not for sale". Despite vowing not to quit despite pressure from the Trump administration after a White House talks descended into a chaotic shouting match, the leader did say he would step down as President if it meant Ukraine could join NATO.
"I am exchangable for NATO,"
Mike Lee Calls for Exit from NATO After
Norwegian Fuel Company Stops Refueling
U.S. Military Ships 22 replies
Norwegian Fuel Company Stops Refueling
U.S. Military Ships 22 replies
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) called for the United States to leave NATO in response to a Norwegian fuel company, Haltbakk Bunkers, deciding to stop refueling U.S. military ships.
“Europe doesn’t love us,” Lee wrote in a post on X. “Let’s leave NATO.” Lee’s post came in response to another post that noted that the company, Haltbakk Bunkers, had “stopped refueling the U.S. Navy ships” and was reportedly urging other European countries to “follow suit.”
There was a moment not long ago when we all got to know Tim Walz—a big, bluff, good-humored guy, born in Nebraska, who became a teacher, a football coach, and the governor of Minnesota. For three months last year, he campaigned on the national ticket with Kamala Harris. As late as Election Day, Walz was convinced that he and Harris were headed to the White House. He was going to be the Vice-President of the United States, living at the Naval Observatory, one heartbeat away from the Presidency. Donald Trump’s preëlection rally at Madison Square Garden, with all its extremist
LONDON — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has arrived at a London summit of European leaders to discuss the war in his country, two days after talks broke down in dramatic fashion at the White House with U.S. President Donald Trump. Trump blasted Zelenskyy for not being grateful enough for U.S. support. Zelenskyy arrived after several of his peers, including French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen. Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, NATO’s Secretary General
On his Fox News show “Life, Liberty, and Levin,” Mark Levin had a compelling discussion with Attorney General Pam Bondi about one of the most scandalous yet suspiciously opaque cases in modern history—the Jeffrey Epstein files. Last week, many anticipated bombshell revelations exposing high-profile figures linked to criminal activity on Epstein’s private island. Instead, what we got was a rehash of information already widely known.
The Democrat-dominated Maine legislature on Tuesday moved to censure Republican State Rep. Laurel Libby for daring to speak out against the state’s extreme left-wing support of transgender athletes.
Libby had taken to her social media to point out that a boy had recently taken away a girl’s opportunity by winning a girl’s high school track and field event in Maine.
Another day, another instance of an unremarkable biological male athlete (who couldn’t win against other males) dominating girls’ sports. (X) Libby added: “The Maine Principals’ Association’s blatant disregard for federal rules means that deserving, BIOLOGICAL girls have titles ripped away from them. This is outrageous and unfair to
During an episode of the Joe Rogan podcast this weekend, Elon Musk explained how left wing billionaire George Soros has perfected the art of fleecing American taxpayers by using non-profit organizations (NGOs) to advance his progressive agenda.
Musk suggests that once one of these organizations is established, they can then lobby the U.S. government for millions in grants and other forms of aid and that there is little to no accountability.
This is one of the reasons why the left is freaking out about DOGE and the exposure of these grifts. DOGE represents an existential threat to the left’s ability to fund their political machine.
Hillary Clinton Again Shows She's in Over
Her Head With Cheap Shot at SecDef Pete
Hegseth on Ukraine 15 replies
Her Head With Cheap Shot at SecDef Pete
Hegseth on Ukraine 15 replies
Her Imperial Majesty Hillary I, Dowager-Empress of Chappaqua, should learn when to holster her gargantuan sense of entitlement, along with her equally massive ego, and just keep her mouth shut. But then, remaining silent, no matter how prudent that might be at the time, has never been Her Imperial Highness' strong suit. Come to think of it, does Hillary Clinton have a strong suit? If she does, there's damn little evidence of it, and in another demonstration in "opening her mouth and removing all doubt," Her Royal Majesty made the mistake of taking on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on X, who promptly defenestrated her.
Prepare for a Slobberfest of 'Slava Ukraini'
and 'Trump Is Literally Hitler' at the Oscars 15 replies
and 'Trump Is Literally Hitler' at the Oscars 15 replies
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was an invention of Louis B. Mayer. Mayer wasn’t an “artist.” Mayer was a businessman and the co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Studios. In the late 1920s, he recognized that unions would soon cut into his bottom line. To stave off the rise of unions in filmmaking, Mayer brought top producers, actors, and “Arts and Sciences” guys together and sweet-talked them into patting themselves on the back. It likely wasn't a hard sell. Actors love actors – particularly the one in the mirror. Douglas Fairbanks Sr. was elected president. What was next? Actors needed a vehicle to publicly
DEI Universities Defy Trump
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Across America, universities are openly defying President Trump’s Executive Order 14151, issued in January 2025, which aimed to end the radical and wasteful DEI bureaucracy infecting institutions nationwide. The order mandates merit-based practices and the termination of DEI initiatives in federal agencies and contractors. Despite this, many universities continue to reinforce their ideological grip on academia, prioritizing DEI over federal law.
The Universities Which Refuse to Comply
A sampling of prominent universities openly defying the executive order includes:
Harvard University --