Time For Americans to Line Up — Behind Zelensky!

Trump and Vance have behaved like mafia thugs, shaking down Zelensky for filthy lucre at the time of Ukraine’s greatest need.

3/2/25

In advance of the now infamous meeting with Trump and Zelensky on February 28, I didn’t want Zelensky to come. I was fearful that Trump would bully Zelensky into signing away significant amount of his country’s wealth, without getting the security guarantees to assure against future Russian incursions. Since those guarantees seemed to be off the table, I was relieved when that meeting fell apart. Good for you, Volodymyr. You did the right thing! You’re the hero in this story and Trump and J.D. Vance were the unabashed villains.

Zelensky’s insistence that any deal contain security guarantees was more than appropriate — it’s essential. Without such guarantees any deal would deserve to be soundly rejected. From what I saw, Zelensky handled himself with the utmost respect and composure. Whatever disrespect displayed at that meeting was shown by Trump and Vance. Besides condescendingly lectured Zelensky for not showing sufficient deference and gratitude to “our great leader,” Vance had the temerity to lambast Zelensky for “campaigning with the opposition” (which, from what I can gather appears not to be true) — this from a man who snubbed the German Chancellor Olaf Scholz when he…