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Chapter 1: How did Zelensky respond to Trump's threats?
If Donald Trump thought that Ukrainian President Zelensky was just going to roll over, well, Donald Trump just got a rude awakening. President Zelensky of Ukraine is saying to Donald Trump, what makes you think that I'm going to give up so easily as you try to sell out Ukraine to Russia? I'm going to show you some clips.
Of what President Zelensky recently said, this follows, of course, the United States under Donald Trump's authoritarian regime, sending Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to negotiate directly with the Russians, led by their foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov. and the United States and Russia cut off Ukraine and Europe from being part of the negotiations.
The plan was for the United States and Russia to carve up Ukraine, to sell it out to Russia, and then just impose their will And before this meeting, Donald Trump tried to get Zelensky to sign a piece of paper giving basically all of Ukraine's rare earth metals and rare earth materials to the United States in perpetuity.
So let me show you what Zelensky did as the United States totally capitulated and showed how weak the United States is going to be and the betrayal by the United States to Ukraine and to Europe.
So before this meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, between the United States and Russia, let me show you what Zelensky said when he was asked why he did not sign the piece of paper to give up all of the rare earth materials belonging to Ukraine to the United States, especially with no security guarantees. Here, play this clip.
Problem with what they presented. What was the issue with what the Americans showed you yesterday?
It's not in our interests today. Not in interest of sovereign Ukraine. I'm just a president. I'm a manager. And after my term, there will be another manager. And these resources, this is not mine. Of our people. And I'm I'm a guarantor that these resources will have our children. With all partners, please, make profits, make business.
It's open for your companies, in some cases, exclusive to your place. We are strategic partners, and that's why we trust Americans, American people, and Europeans, some European countries who helped a lot. It's about it, but it's not mine. I'm not... Take...
give so it's very serious things okay then following the meeting between uh the united states and russia rubio and sergey lavrov which russian press russian state media i should say and propaganda was loving it the united states bending its knee to russia this was the moment that russia always wanted having the united states kiss the ring of russia it was so humiliating for the United States.
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Chapter 2: What was the U.S. plan involving Ukraine and Russia?
No. Putin is a war criminal and should be in jail for the rest of his life, if not executed.
Trump thinks that he wants peace, that Putin wants peace.
Well, I read a pamphlet back when I was in junior high called... you can trust the Russians. And then parenthetically, it was to be clearly on their side and to violate the rule of law. I think that's what we can trust the Russians to do, is to do anything to their advantage, to take temporary steps. But Vladimir Putin has violated every tenet of international law.
And I asked Wicker about the fact that the United States so far has begun those direct negotiations with Russia alone. He said, quote, I don't know what the scheme is, but he said that the Ukrainians ultimately need to be at the table. And he said, quote, European interests have to be considered and, quote, carefully weighed.
but as Julia Davis, who covers all of the Russian state propaganda. She runs Russian Monitor. She does a great job. She goes, wait until Trump teaches him and the rest of the spineless GOP to trust Putin. It won't take long for these pathetic magas to fall into line like the sheeple that they are.
While all of this was going on, Russian press was ecstatic at the weakness shown by the United States. Their top propaganda shows were saying, quote, the U.S. is doing Russia's work, says ecstatic propagandists. Putin's mouthpieces are in a lather over the excitement over the U.S.
administration's willingness to make the deal that Russia wanted, the ultimatum that Russia put to Zelensky at the beginning of the war before its unlawful invasion. Here's the headline from Politico in Europe. Moscow's media gloats over U.S.-Russia talks. As this account explains, war criminal Putin is having a fantastic week.
We have no clue how the so-called peace agreement will play out or what's next for the war. But one thing's clear, Putin is getting legitimized. His atrocities conveniently forgotten. Is the rest of the world fine with this? Professor Michael McFowell says the following. So Putin is apparently insisting that Ukraine hold new elections. Phase two allegedly of a peace plan.
Phase one is a ceasefire before real negotiations on a settlement begin. The US should agree as long as Russia holds a free and fair presidential election too. Professor McFowell then says, as I predicted last night, the main goal of the Russian delegation in Riyadh was to restart US-Russia relations. They've already achieved their goal.
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