As air raid sirens fill the air of Kyiv and Russian trucks head for Donbas, Volodymyr Zelensky, president of Ukraine, is crying like a little girl over NATO's refusal to protect him and his country.
He attended the annual meeting of the Munich Security Conference and insulted the people he wants as allies.
He demanded, "What are you waiting for?"
I laugh at him. Who made the United States his servant? Why should our soldiers spill their blood for him? Who is he?
Ukraine may be a small country of 41 million people. (Make that 39 million now that Russia has officially recognized two county-sized regions as breakaway countries.) But Ukraine leads the league in corruption, doesn't it?
Two years ago, President Donald John Trump asked him to investigate Biden and his crackhead son for corruption.
Instead, Zelensky let Congress impeach Trump without protest.
And now Zelensky wants our help?
OK. We'll send Hunter Biden. Just tell him there's a ton of crack inside each tank and he will Rambo his way to Moscow.
Two years ago, Zelensky was a mouthy little man in an interview with Time magazine and three European news outlets.
Time reported, "The president explained that, despite getting caught up in the impeachment inquiry now unfolding in Washington, D.C., Ukraine still needs the support of the United States.
"Otherwise his country does not stand much of a chance, Zelensky said, in its effort to get back the territory Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, starting with the Crimean Peninsula. Nor can Ukraine rely on steady financial support from abroad if President Donald Trump and his allies continue to signal to the world that Ukraine is corrupt, Zelensky said. 'When America says, for instance, that Ukraine is a corrupt country, that is the hardest of signals.'"
Boo hoo hoo.
OK, we will stop calling Ukraine a corruptistan, while we watch Putin devour Kyiv and the rest of the totally-not-corrupt country.
I do feel for Ukraine. 6 million people starved to death in the Holomodor in which Stalin deliberately cut off the nation's food supply. People cannibalized their babies.
But we have a border crisis of our own.
The shade Zelensky cast two years ago carries a price. Trump supporters are staying on the sidelines this time.
What did he say?
Time reported, "During the interview in his office in Kyiv, the comedian-turned-president denied, as he has done in the past, that he and Trump ever discussed a decision to withhold American aid to Ukraine for nearly two months in the context of a quid pro quo involving political favors, which are now at the center of the impeachment inquiry in Congress.
"But he also pushed back on Trump’s recent claims about corruption in Ukraine, and questioned the fairness of Trump’s decision to freeze American aid. 'If you’re our strategic partner, then you can’t go blocking anything for us,' he said. 'I think that’s just about fairness. It’s not about a quid pro quo.'"
Trump by the way knew nothing about the delay in releasing the funds. Zelensky knew that. He was playing politics.
Zelensky was oddly silent about Biden bragging to the Council for Foreign Relations nearly two years earlier about withholding aid to Ukraine unless it fired the prosecutor who was investigating the company that paid off his son.
Now Biden is president and Putin is rolling in and no one will stop him because Donald Trump is gone.
Zelensky wanted Trump out. OK, Trump's out. Enjoy Biden.
And by Biden, I mean Putin because Donald Trump was the only one stopping him from taking over Ukraine.
I admit, I had forgotten this about Zelensky ! Thanks, Don, for helping me remember ! This clown doesn't deserve any help ! I have worked with russian engineers over here and they never complained about Putin once ! Is it possible that the russian people are treated fairly well and we have been sold a bunch of propaganda?
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jeffery, for that little bit of propaganda.
DeleteWhy don't you present an argument?
DeleteBecause according to him, there is no way Russia is ever going to attack Ukraine because the Ukrainian military has a numerical advantage.
DeleteThis must be fake news. Right ed?
I had forgotten as well. Makes me care even less.
DeleteI care only because I have friends here who have family there. There are bunch of innocent folks gonna get the shaft.
DeleteThe Russian State is imploding as its population declines, it's desire to swallow the Ukraine is to create better defensible borders due to geography and their shrinking population that will not be able to field an army to do so against a determined attack from the west.
DeleteTheir economy in general is third world, with only commodity extraction and selling of same brings hard currency into the country. They don't have enough money to consume much of anything from the west, nor the ability to produce anything of value for export - which is why most western manufacturers have nothing to do with it.
Putin is making the most of a bad hand, enabled by very weak and corrupt western leadership, starting with our president.
But Russia is probably already too damaged to survive past the end of this century. Having no babies, and nothing but raw materials to provide other countries, is not a good hand. Now of course they do have nukes, which Putin playfully noted today. And those nukes keep China from taking eastern Russia.
And don't get me started on how screwed China is.
We have western manufacturers still?
DeleteHe's not a clown, I think he was a comedian, right?
DeleteWill he go back to stand up?
Geez, what I'd give for a mean tweet about now!
ReplyDeleteYep.
DeleteYes, bring back the mean tweets. They did mean something.
DeleteAnd the tweets were honest, brutal sometimes, but honest.
Delete1941 Odessa (Ukraine) Massacre
ReplyDeleteThe Odessa massacre was the mass murder of the Jewish population of Odessa and during 1941-42 while it was under Romanian control.
The Odessa massacre refers either to the events of October 22–24, 1941 in which some 25,000 to 34,000 Jews were shot or burned, or to the murder of well over 100,000 Ukrainian Jews in the town and the areas between the Dniester and Bug rivers, during the Romanian and German occupation. The primary perpetrators were Romanian soldiers, Einsatzgruppe SS and local ethnic Germans.
(The Russian Empire) Well what about the Pogroms in 1821, 1859, 1871, 1881, 1905, WW1 (1914-1918), WW11 (1939-1945)!!!!!!!
DeleteOdessa has ever been under Romanian control?? Wow, did not expect to find such experts here
DeleteYou do know what led up to the Odessa massacre correct? 2/3 of the Soviet Cheka (Secret Police) was Jewish during the time of Holodomor. Most of Stalin's top henchmen were Jewish and responsible for Holodomor, the construction of the Gulags to imprison and kill millions, and devised some of the cruelest torture known to man.
DeleteWas it the right thing to do to take it out on a group of 20-something thousand Jew who may or may not have had a hand in those atrocities? Probably not, but I understand why it happened. If I lost a family member or witnessed my neighbors cannibalizing their child, I'd want BRUTAL UNFORGIVING PAYBACK. Just sayin.
Gooder and harder, Zelensky!
ReplyDeleteI agree completely.
DeleteNo Vaseline.
DeleteOn a more serious note, what does Zelensky expect? The United States and NATO owe him nothing. I do not think the U.S. or any western country has to defend his country. It's not our problem.
ReplyDeleteUnder Clinton, the U.S. convinced Ukraine to get rid of their nuclear weapons and other weapons systems....we signed a treaty with them saying we'd come to their defense if necessary.
DeleteZelensky was blackmailed by the Obama Syndicate. He knew he would be deposed too if he stood up for President Trump.
ReplyDeleteI blame those criminals.
Zelensky isn't the point--Ukraine is the point, and the expansion (or prevention of expansion) of Russia is the point. Also the protection of NATO territory. Sniping at Zelensky is irrelevant.
ReplyDeleteum, you do know that Ukraine is not a member of NATO?
DeleteSo...what's Western Europe doing about it? it's their back door. They're rich.
DeleteYes, I do know that. Nonetheless, the protection of NATO is implicitly an issue in this war.
DeleteSweet post, Don! I agree with every word.
ReplyDeletethe contrast between the speeches of POTUS45 at CPAC this weekend and VPOTUS47 in front of no one on March 1st will be something to behold IMHO
ReplyDeleteEvents in Ukraine are pretty much confirming a lot of what Sundance has said about U.S. shenanigans there. There also seem to be some things going on behind the scenes.
ReplyDeleteAnd by the way, the word is Holodomor.
Don, my feelings exactly. Let Russia blow Ukraine to bits. I could give a rats a$$. Let them take Belarus next. Maybe Europe will stand up to Russia? Sure. Or the UN can send troops to rape the young girls and boys like they do in Africa.
ReplyDeleteJust another example of "being and enemy of the US is risky, being an ally is down right dangerous"
ReplyDeleteAgain our saber rattling politicians want us to get riled up about the boogeyman Putin. We can't fall for the trap. This isn't our fight.
ReplyDeleteOn a side note, this is a pretty good opportunity to observe just how Putin's military performs. If reports are accurate, half of his army is populated with drunks and the other half is Muslim. Again, if reports are accurate (a big "if") his troops were lied to about their mission there. Let this play out and observe closely. Could be an intelligence bonanza. Of course, that assumes our intel people are actual Americans. Again, a big "if".
ReplyDeleteOur intelligence will closely monitor the preferred pronouns of the Russian troops and how many transgenders they have
DeleteGood point. Are there any serious intel people left? Have all the good ones been purged?
DeleteThere never were any good ones, at least not since WW2. They've been wrong on EVERY security issue since then.
DeleteCIA was right about Vietnam , Kennedy and LBJ DIDNT LISTEN
DeleteI saw a video released by NATO. It was just a bunch of "diversity" BS.
ReplyDeleteToo cheap for table stakes at U.N.
ReplyDeleteSlaps Trump right in the face.
And, Ukraine is not even close to being a Democracy.
If he were as smart as me, he would blackmail Biden with the truth.
Then, the U.S. would immediately become involved to save Biden's but.
I think you are confusing the Holodomor with that other, much more popular, holothingy. Well over 10 million people were starved to death in the
ReplyDeletenot so popular or taught in history classes Holodomor. And there aren't hundreds of movies, documentaries and tv series made about it, unlike that other holothingy, so I forgive the deception..eh.. mistake. That other one, you know the one that has 100's of productions and 1000's of books written to convince people how bad "white" European's can be, that holothingy uses the 6 million number.
Knifecatcher? Is that you?
DeleteScripture declares "For all they that take the sword, shall perish by the sword" Mathew 26:52 And His Word cannot be broken!
ReplyDeleteAs Navarro said ballot box stuffing isn't just a bargain with the devil... It's national suicide.
ReplyDeleteStolen elections have a price and now we're all paying that price!
What Price is that? Ukraine is none of our business.
DeleteEnergy prices skyrocketing (even more), likely depletion of our strategic reserves, Biden making a laughing stock of our department of state (not that it needed any help), $ billions being sent in aide......
DeleteMaybe there are other reasons for Russia aggression. https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/02/24/is-there-is-more-to-the-ukraine-russia-conflict/
ReplyDeleteDear LetsGoBrandon, the very last thing in the world anyone with any common sense at all would do would be to blow up Biolabs and release lethal pathogens onto humanity. Not a single chance Putin or anyone in a leadership position in any country on the planet would blow up a biolab as it could be an extinction event for all of humanity - It would kill Putin and everyone else on the planet. This is brain dead propaganda.
DeleteI am stunned by the level of competence of this yellow press journalism. And arguments would rival best leftist sources, like Time. Can you believe that Surber is relying on Time’s reporting. Wow!!!
ReplyDeleteLet me explain this so called journalist Surber why America owes Ukraine. Back in 1994, USA, Great Britain, and Ukraine signed a Budapest Memorandum, under which Ukraine gave up the third largest nuke arsenal in the world in exchange for US and GB guarantee of its independence and territorial integrity.
Ukraine held its side of the bargain. US? I am ashamed to acknowledge that the US word is not worth the paper it written on. SHAME!! When Russia took over Crimea, what did the USA do?? NOTHING!! Shame!!
This is btw not the only time. But I’ll stop here.
Oh, no, I’ll point one more time that MR. Surber is relying in his drivel on Time’s reporting. The only better options would have been cnn and msnbc, but why push a “journalist” to do any work? 😂
I'm NOT stunned. Part of that agreement was that Ukraine Remain NEUTRAL. Joining NATO was NOT Remaining NEUTRAL. Russia is making the world a safer place.
DeleteTrump never stopped Russia from going into Ukraine never needed to. Russia'a peace keeping mission in the Ukraine was instigated by US and NATO aggression since the Biden Admin was installed. Signed a US VET
ReplyDeleteI'm against sending young working class Americans to fight and die 3000 miles from US territory where the US has no vested interest.
ReplyDeleteIf you just listen to Putin's argument for his invasion, and then listen to Blinken and Biden*'s argument for not invading, Putin makes far more sense than either Laurel or Hardy do. Not taking Putin's side on this but if a country's head cannot make a coherent argument in defense of a specific position, you have to wonder about motive.
ReplyDeleteIf you just listen to Putin's argument for his invasion, and then listen to Blinken and Biden*'s argument for not invading, Putin makes far more sense than either Laurel or Hardy do. Not taking Putin's side on this but if a country's head cannot make a coherent argument in defense of a specific position, you have to wonder about motive.
ReplyDeleteBiden has a good reason for sending troops into Ukraine. Once Putin captures the capital city he will have access to all the corruption documentation implicating the Biden and Pelosi Families. Good fodder for blackmail for when Putin invades the Balkans and Poland.
ReplyDeleteNever interfere with your enemies when they are destroying themselves. Ukrainian (government) corruption destroyed Ukraine.
ReplyDeleteUkraine will destroy Putin in much the same way Afghanistan destroyed the USSR. The extent of our involvement should be limited to supplying weapons to the Ukrainians and NO Americans should ever set foot there until those weapons are obsolete or destroyed.