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WITH ZELENSKY’S DRESSING DOWN BY TRUMP & VANCE FOR DISRESPECTING THE USA, PLUS IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS AGAINST HIM IN UKRAINE, IS HE FINISHED?
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Zelensky is done – former CIA analyst.
The Ukrainian leader’s failure at Friday’s meeting with Donald Trump has highlighted that he is an “impediment to peace” and has to be removed, John Kiriakou has told RT.
Vladimir Zelensky is done as the leader of Ukraine and should be removed, journalist and former CIA analyst John Kiriakou told RT, commenting on the verbal spat between Zelensky and US President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday.
The meeting became heated when Zelensky resisted Trump’s demand to negotiate peace with Russia, leading the latter to accuse him of ingratitude and an unwillingness to end the conflict. Consequently, Zelensky left the White House prematurely, without signing an agreement that would have granted the US rights to Ukraine’s natural resources. The planned joint press conference was canceled.
“For all intents and purposes, Zelensky is done. I wouldn’t be surprised if in three months Zelensky is living in London or some such place,” Kiriakou said on Friday. He noted that Zelensky, who, citing martial law, refused to step down after his presidential mandate ended last year, will “have to be removed” because he “continues to be an impediment to peace.”
READ MORE: Zelensky’s presidency is over – Scott Ritter
“You know, they’ve got this provision in the Ukrainian constitution where they don’t have to have elections during a time of martial law...Maybe it’s time to take a second look at that, get him out, and elect somebody who can negotiate in good faith with the Russian government,” the analyst suggested.
Kiriakou noted that without the support of Washington, which Kiev effectively lost when Zelensky antagonized Trump on Friday, the Ukraine conflict can be considered “over.”
“[Zelensky] can’t rely on NATO… if the US pulls out. And it looks very much that the US is in the process now of pulling out. The conflict is over. It’s done. This is today’s reality,” he stated.
READ MORE: Trump names conditions for resuming talks with Zelensky
Zelensky has previously dismissed the possibility of stepping down. In an interview with Fox News following the meeting with Trump, he responded to a call from US Senator Lindsey Graham “to resign and send somebody over that we can do business with.” Zelensky stated he won’t do that unless asked by the Ukrainian people. According to Kiriakou, losing the support of such a pro-Kiev figure as Graham is yet another sign that Zelensky time at the helm is over, as is the conflict itself.
“In the US Congress, we have workhorses and we have show horses. And Lindsey Graham is a show horse. So when you’ve lost Lindsey Graham, you’ve lost the war. [It] is a message to Vladimir Zelensky that it’s time to just stop,” the analyst said.
A dose of reality for the West’s spoiled brat: What now for the humiliated Zelensky?
Thoroughly thrashed by Trump and Vance, the Ukrainian leader faces a bleak future.
By Tarik Cyril Amar, a historian from Germany working at Koç University, Istanbul, on Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe, the history of World War II, the cultural Cold War, and the politics of memory
“A grandiose failure” – take it from the best Ukrainian news site. That’s how Strana.ua has summed up the visit of Vladimir Zelensky, past-best-by-date leader in embattled Kiev, to Washington.
And no one who watched the no-holds-barred shouting match between Zelensky, on one side, and US President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance, on the other, can disagree. Indeed, no one is even trying to disagree: Independent of political bias, there is unanimity in Western mainstream media that this was a historic catastrophe for Zelensky and his version of Ukraine.
“A disaster” and “bitter chaos” (The Economist); a “meltdown” that “could not have gone worse” (Financial Times); a “historic escalation” (Spiegel); a “disaster for Ukraine” and a “spectacular confrontation” (Le Monde); an “upbraiding” and “debacle” for Zelensky (New York Times) and so on and so forth… You get the gist.
And please don’t blame me for how boring a review of Western mainstream media is; it’s not my fault that the vaunted press of the self-appointed “free world” and “garden” of “values” offers less diversity of views than the Soviet media circa 1986.
The basic idea is very basic indeed: “This was awful because poor Zelensky got bullied.” Some especially eager information war cadres are already fingering J.D. Vance as the one to blame. The Economist, for instance, simply “knows” that the US vice president set up the Ukrainian leader. But then, the same Economist also helped spread the moronic lie that Russia blew up its own Nord Stream pipelines.
Intriguingly, Ukraine’s Strana.ua, already mentioned above, sees things very differently. Its take is that “Zelensky himself provoked the scandal by his rudeness” toward both Vance and Trump. The latter, these Ukrainian observers who know their own vain and erratic leader all too well think, were still holding back, staying “quite calm and respectful” toward Zelensky.
For what it’s worth, my personal impression is that Zelensky did provoke the fight; that Vance and Trump treated him harshly and humiliatingly in return; and that Kiev’s prima-donna-in-chief deserved every last bit of it – and then some. Yes, after more than half a decade of Western leaders and mainstream media first building an insane personality cult around him and then babying and coddling him, it was a relief to see him talked to in earnest. And yes, it was glorious.
Because Trump is right: Yes, Zelensky has been recklessly toying with World War III. And no, his regime has not been “alone.” On the contrary, without massive Western support that it should never have received it would long have ceased to exist. Vance also has a point: Ukraine is running out of soldiers, and Ukrainian men are hunted like animals to be shipped off to a hopeless meatgrinder war.
Finally, both are right: Zelensky displayed crude disrespect. Don’t get me wrong: In general, I am all for massively disrespecting the American empire. But once you’ve chosen to be its puppet and sold your own nation to it, you might as well cut out the grandstanding.
In short, at long last, a dose of reality for the West’s spoiled brat in Kiev.
And no more daft Churchill comparisons, please. In reality, like Stalin, Churchill was quite a monster – ask the miners or the Indians, for instance – who nonetheless played an important role in defeating Nazi Germany. But he was not a puffed-up provincial comedian.
Yet let’s not get distracted. Schadenfreude is not important. And neither are probably misguided speculations about Trump and the gang “setting traps,” staging “ambushes, or dishing out “payback.” Because even if they did, any leader worth his salt has to be able to deal with such baiting. One way or the other, this was yet another painful-to-watch display of Zelensky’s complete inadequacy.
The really interesting questions concern the consequences of this cluster-fiasco. No one knows the future. Currently, Zelensky is debasing himself even more – I know, hard to imagine, but leave it to the man who pretended to play piano with his genitals, in public – by trying to angle for mercy. Trump, as of now, seems in no mood to offer any. Not only was the Ukrainian satrap literally shown the door, but the irate American overlord also made a point of letting the media know that despite Zelensky’s begging it won’t be open again soon.
Read more: Zelensky’s ex-studio makes insulting reference to Trump (PHOTO, VIDEO)
Hence, one consequence, let’s assume, is a long-term, deep falling out between Washington and the Zelensky regime that may well be irreparable. This is all the more remarkable as what led up to this turn of events was the almost-final-signing of an essentially colonial raw materials deal handing over Ukraine’s resources to America. And yet still not good enough.
The Trump administration is brutally frank about seeking material advantage; this, it seemed, was a done deal. What happened? We can only speculate, but one possibility is that Trump’s team is taking seriously the recent statements by Russia’s president Vladimir Putin.
In an important interview with journalist Pavel Zarubin – the real meaning of which has mostly escaped Western mainstream media, as is their wont – Putin explained that Moscow is open to business cooperation with the US regarding rare earth deposits everywhere in Russia. Including, as he stressed, territories recently conquered from Ukraine. You can extrapolate from here concerning other raw materials as well. Russia will, of course, not roll over Zelensky-style, but very much money can be made in fair deals, too.
Zelensky, hence, may have overestimated his negotiating position: although he is ready to sell out Ukraine’s raw materials to the US the way he has already sold its people, he has so little control that an offer of access with and through Moscow may have become attractive enough to neutralize his leverage. If that is so, then Washington has now even less interest than before in helping Kiev recover (impossible anyhow) or even keep territory.
Another possible consequence is obvious: Long before Trump, the US has had an impressive record of first using and then abandoning or even liquidating puppets, including, to name only a few, Ngo Dinh Diem of former South Vietnam, Manuel Noriega of Panama, Saddam Hussein of Iraq, and Osama Bin Laden, a badly backfiring Cold War terror puppet.
Read more: EU trapped as ‘cheerleader of US hegemony’ – Jeffrey Sachs
There can be no doubt that Zelensky should worry about a similar fate. Exile may be the best option available left for him in reality. He may also be cooped away in Ukraine. Or even be forced to obey the constitution and hold elections, which he is certain to lose, most likely against Valery Zaluzhny, former commander-in-chief and Zelensky’s arch-nemesis. Make no mistake: Zaluzhny is a bullheaded and narrowminded nationalist and militarist and, as of now, a Western puppet no less than Zelensky. Any scenarios involving Zelensky’s replacement remain hard to predict.
Especially because, and this brings us to a third possible consequence, Washington’s European vassals seem to be choosing the worst possible moment to finally rebel: Having helped drive the insane proxy war forward and Ukraine into an abyss with fanatic, self-destructive submissiveness to prior US rulers, it is the NATO-EU Europeans who are now trying to obstruct the search for peace. In that, they are even ready to diverge from Washington. That is the meaning, once again, behind the many messages of shlocky “solidarity” they are now demonstratively addressing to the Zelensky regime.
It is as perverse as you can imagine, but it is real: the hill that NATO-EU Europe has chosen to die on is to be even more warmongering and destructive than the US. Say what you will about these European “elites,” but they still manage to surprise: whenever you think they have done their very worst, they upstage themselves.
The war may well continue, even without the US. It would be insane. But the “elites” of NATO-EU Europe and Kiev are just that, of course, insane. We may even end up in a world where a Russian-US détente will unfold (as we should hope), while the Ukraine War becomes a fight between Russia and the US’ abandoned European vassals.
What will not change is the outcome: Ukraine and the West – in whatever rump shape – will lose. And the longer the war, the worse for both of them. Let’s hope that something will give. Ukrainians, another Maidan perhaps to finally stop the bloody clown who promised you peace and then betrayed you? Europeans, how much longer are you going to tolerate leaders obsessed with getting to World War III?
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Zelensky not ready for peace – Trump.
The US president has accused the Ukrainian leader of “disrespecting” Washington.
Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky is not ready for peace as he sees Washington’s involvement in negotiations on the Ukraine conflict as a bargaining chip, US President Donald Trump has said, following a heated and unprecedented meeting on Friday.
Trump made the caustic remarks in a social media post after receiving Zelensky at the White House, where the two were expected to sign an agreement granting Washington access to Ukraine’s natural resources.
Zelensky’s visit was cut short after he got into a heated exchange with Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance in front of the media, leading to Trump accusing Zelensky of “disrespectful” behavior in the Oval Office.
The exchange culminated in a tense argument when Vance accused Zelensky of going to Pennsylvania in October to campaign for the Democrats, and urged him to “say a few words of gratitude to the US and the president who is trying to save your country.”
Zelensky responded by saying: “Please, do you think that if you talk very loudly about the war...”
READ MORE: Zelensky’s meltdown in the Oval Office (WATCH FULL)
He was immediately cut off by Trump, who said: “He is not speaking loudly. Your country is in big trouble. You are not winning. You have a damn good chance of coming out okay because of us.”
The Ukrainian ambassador to the US was seen with her head in her hands, as Zelensky countered that Ukraine is “alone” but remains “strong and grateful.”
Trump dismissed the claim, interrupting Zelensky to say, “You were not alone. We gave you, through this stupid president (Joe Biden), $350 billion, we gave you military equipment.” As Zelensky attempted to shout over Trump, the US president asserted that without American aid, the war would have ended in two weeks.
“We had a very meaningful meeting,” Trump later wrote on Truth Social, adding: “Much was learned that could never be understood without conversation under such fire and pressure.”
Trump went on to say that Zelensky “is not ready for peace if America is involved, because he feels our involvement gives him a big advantage in negotiations.”
“It’s amazing what comes out through emotion,” he remarked.
He reiterated that he wants peace, adding that Zelensky “disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office.”
Trump, who did not accompany Zelensky to the exit, concluded his statement by saying, “He can come back when he is ready for Peace.”
Zelensky should apologize for ‘fiasco’ with Trump – Rubio.
Friday’s talks in the Oval Office descended into a verbal spat during which the US president accused the Ukrainian leader of ungratefulness.
US President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance meet with Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky in the Oval Office, Washington, DC, February 28, 2025.
Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky “should apologize” for turning his meeting with US President Donald Trump into a “fiasco,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said. In an interview with CNN on Friday, Rubio slammed Zelensky for “wasting” everyone’s time with his attitude and questioned his true intentions regarding the conflict with Russia.
Zelensky, Trump, and Vice President J.D. Vance met earlier on Friday in the White House Oval Office for what was expected to be the formal signing of a minerals agreement between Washington and Kiev. However, the meeting descended into a verbal spat after Trump told Zelensky that he would have to negotiate peace with Russia. Zelensky argued that Russian President Vladimir Putin cannot be trusted and insisted that the US should continue supporting his country, prompting Trump to accuse him of ungratefulness and an unwillingness to negotiate an end to the conflict.
“[Zelensky] should apologize for wasting our time for a meeting that was going to end the way it did… for turning this thing into the fiasco for him that it became,” Rubio said, commenting on the meeting.
READ MORE: Zelensky leaves White House early after spat with Trump: As it happened
“There was no need for him to go in there and become antagonistic,” he added, criticizing the Ukrainian leader for the talks “going off the rails.” Rubio also accused Zelensky of sticking to his animosity towards Putin instead of focusing on the only viable path towards peace, which he said was getting Russia to the negotiation table.
“Attacking Putin, calling him names… and maximalist demands about Russia having to pay for the reconstruction – when you start talking about that aggressively, you’re not going to get people to the table,” he stated, noting that Zelensky’s attitude could be viewed as “active open undermining” of efforts to bring about the end of the conflict.
Following the meeting, Fox News journalist Jacqui Heinrich wrote on X that the Ukrainian delegation was “begging” for a reset, but was asked to leave the White House grounds and only return when Zelensky was “ready for peace.”
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In an interview on Fox News shortly after the meeting, Zelensky admitted it did not go well, but signaled he did not plan to apologize to the US leader. He claimed he thought “we have to be very open and very honest” in bilateral interaction, blamed some of the statements he made on being lost in translation, but ultimately said he was “unsure” that he did something “bad” to offend Trump.
‘The countdown to the end of Zelensky’s regime has started’ – Russian experts on the Trump talks fiasco.
The Ukrainian leader’s meeting with the US president was a disaster for Kiev, but it may be too early to draw long-term conclusions.
During Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky’s visit to Washington, a public altercation occurred between him and US President Donald Trump, even leading to the meeting being cut short and the scheduled news conference being canceled. Such an emotionally charged and negatively tinted exchange of mutual accusations on camera in the White House has likely never been seen before.
Fyodor Lukyanov, editor-in-chief of Russia in Global Affairs
“Vladimir Zelensky underestimated the scale of the shift that occurred in American politics after Donald Trump’s arrival. He was misled by the fact that for three years, no one in the West considered it acceptable to publicly contradict Ukrainian representatives, especially Zelensky himself. Diplomats, politicians, and cultural figures from Ukraine were allowed almost anything. They are victims; they have the right. Permissiveness played a cruel joke on the Kiev leader.
But the issue is not just about someone’s bad manners; that is a private matter. Such a model of behavior was possible as long as the Ukrainian conflict was perceived in the West as a battle of the right side of history against the wrong one. And in such a battle, almost anything is allowed. And no one will condemn it.
Trump views the war as an annoying nuisance, a mess in which all participants are to blame, especially his predecessor. The key takeaway from Trump during this truly historic interaction in the White House was: I am a mediator; I am not on anyone’s side; I want the war to end. And this is a fundamental shift. Strangely enough, Trump has taken a position of classic diplomacy, which is necessary to end wars. Zelensky and his supporters reject it, counting on a clear victory. But that is unattainable.
Zelensky’s problem now is that, having made a fatal mistake in his choice of strategy in the White House, he has disarmed even his support group in Europe and within the US itself. They may express as much outrage as they want about Trump and demand continued aid for Ukraine, but Zelensky’s mistake is glaring. The opportunity to sway the American president to a more favorable position has been lost.
And two small remarks. First, Zelensky now has the opportunity to appreciate the restraint and even tactfulness of the Russian president, no matter how they feel about each other. Second – the war continues.”
Read more: Zelensky not ready for peace – Trump
Anastasia Likhacheva, dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at HSE University
“The world hasn’t seen anything like this in international politics for a long time. Unlike reality TV shows.
After the live scandal, Donald Trump wrote that such pressure and intensity were exactly what was needed to reveal the truth. It was very reminiscent of his old show ‘The Apprentice’ from the 2000s. The most memorable part of it was the brutal ‘You’re fired.’ Zelensky, with incredible persistence, demonstrated the behavior of a person without a plan B, which violates any negotiation logic. The simple conclusion is that his main goal was to demonstrate an unwillingness to negotiate. This has happened before: in one episode of ‘Servant of the People,’ his character threw documents on exploitative IMF loans for the privatization of Ukrainian land into officials’ faces.
The logic of TV shows is straightforward and demands drastic actions from both sides in the near future. But what works for TV ratings is extremely risky in real life. All signs indicate that the next few days and weeks will be very dangerous. Moreover, they will be irrationally dangerous. And following TV logic, after the most intense episode, we may see a ‘cast update.’”
Maksim Suchkov, director of the Institute of International Studies at MGIMO University
“Zelensky pressed all the ‘buttons’ that should never be pressed in negotiations with Trump – both in his style of communication with the US president and in the content of his arguments.
His main mistake, in my opinion, was pointing out America’s vulnerability and its only source of power – its favorable geography (‘You have a nice ocean’), which allows the US to stay distant from global hotspots. Saying this to the president and his ambitious vice president, who ran their campaign on the theme of America’s strength, in the Oval Office, in front of the media, meant pushing the impulsive Trump into a reputational risk he simply could not afford – especially from someone he considers entirely dependent on the US.
Thus, if Russia was the ‘spoiler’ for the Democrats, then Ukraine and Zelensky personally have become the ‘spoiler’ for Trump. Zelensky’s stubbornness ruins Trump’s dream of a grand deal to resolve the conflict.
Unexpectedly, J.D. Vance also made his presence felt. It became clear that he had not forgotten whom Zelensky backed when he visited Pennsylvania alongside Democrats in the heat of the US election campaign.
Read more: Zelensky leaves White House early after spat with Trump
However, one shouldn’t be too optimistic about what was witnessed. The US holds the keys to ending the conflict: it could disable Starlink, on which Ukraine’s entire military command system relies, and within a week, the war would be over. But the US does not do this because it feels it can extract even more from the situation. Zelensky’s visit gives Moscow an opportunity for an additional move. It must be used wisely.”
Dmitry Suslov, deputy director of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies at HSE University
“The public altercation between Trump and Zelensky, the complete failure of negotiations, the collapse of the deal on Ukrainian natural resources, and Zelensky’s premature departure from the White House have sharply increased the chances of resolving the war in Ukraine through US-Russia negotiations – mostly on Russian terms. They have also started the countdown to the end of Zelensky’s regime.
Zelensky clearly underestimated Trump’s determination to end the war as quickly as possible and the fact that Trump sees it not as the epicenter of a global struggle between good and evil but as a losing battle that hinders the US from reallocating its resources to things that really matter for America's strategic goals.
Equally, Zelensky overestimated his own image, remaining trapped in the mindset of how he was received at the White House under Biden. Psychologically, he was unprepared for the reality that he is not seen as a ‘new Churchill’ or a leader fighting for the entire West against ‘the forces of evil,’ but rather as a questionably-legitimate opportunist, pleading with the US to continue funding a clearly losing war – one that carries the risk of escalating into World War III.
Trump’s logic is clear: Ukraine is losing the war, and without US support, it will lose it even faster and more disastrously. Therefore, Zelensky’s role is to accept the settlement terms that the US is negotiating with the winning side – Russia. Zelensky, due to his own pride, and hoping for European support, refused.
As a result, the Trump administration and Trump himself are now even more convinced that Kiev is currently incapable of negotiations and remains an obstacle to peace. Therefore, talks must be held directly with Moscow.
What happened is also extremely unpleasant for Europe. The leaders of the latter will likely support Zelensky and rally behind him against Trump, which will create the following configuration: Russia and the US, as responsible great powers, negotiate peace, while Europe and Ukraine, which are much less capable, attempt to disrupt these negotiations – and peace itself – by pushing for the continuation of the war. This will further worsen Trump’s already negative attitude toward the EU and will ultimately rule out US participation in ‘security guarantees’ for Ukraine in the form that French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer tried to promote in Washington this week.
Read more: Majority of US Republicans hostile to Zelensky – poll
In the near future, the Trump administration is highly likely to halt even the arms deliveries that are still being provided under Biden’s package. If it also stops providing intelligence to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the pace of Kiev’s defeat on the battlefield will accelerate, with the prospect of a total collapse of the front within months. And while the EU will almost certainly convene another emergency summit – with Zelensky likely to attend – and will pledge to increase aid to Kiev, the overall balance of power will remain unchanged.
After the failure of Zelensky’s negotiations with Trump, the latter will become even more receptive to the Russian position on a settlement – despite the objective contradictions between it and the US stance, which prioritizes a ceasefire first and everything else afterward. The key issue is that the 2022 Istanbul agreements should form the basis of a peace settlement. In the end, Trump has clearly signaled that Russia, as the side winning the war, has a far stronger negotiating hand than Ukraine.
In the short term, Zelensky has not only failed in his attempt to secure a settlement on his own terms (and those of Europe), but he now faces the continuation of the war without support from his main sponsor. This will accelerate Ukraine’s defeat and, ultimately, lead to peace on Russian terms.”
Anton Grishanov, senior research fellow at the Institute of Current International Issues, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry
“Zelensky had a chance to conduct his conversation with Trump and Vance differently. As recently as Thursday, the American leader predicted ‘a very good meeting’ and spoke of his continued respect for his Ukrainian counterpart. However, Zelensky clearly lost his grip on reality. Upon arriving at the White House, he made every possible mistake, failing to recognize hints from the other side and missing the opportunity to remain gratefully silent and humbly keep his head down. In international affairs, one must pay for foolishness and excessive self-confidence.
Of course, one episode alone is not enough to draw long-term conclusions, but in the short term, this tragicomic conversation will undoubtedly weaken Zelensky’s position within Ukraine and give Russian diplomacy additional leverage in its dealings with the US. However, the positions of Moscow and Washington on the peace process still diverge, and Trump’s unpredictable temperament may bring many surprises on the road to ending the conflict.”
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Zelensky leaves White House early after spat with Trump: As it happened.
What was supposed to be the formal signing of a minerals agreement descended into a shouting match and bitter recriminations.
Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has been asked to leave the White House early without signing an agreement granting the US rights to the country’s natural resources or holding the planned joint press conference.
The meeting between Zelensky and US President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance quickly devolved into an openly hostile confrontation during which the US head of state accused Zelensky of ungratefulness and unwillingness to negotiate an end to the Ukraine conflict.
The idea of a deal involving Ukraine’s rare-earths was initially floated by Zelensky last autumn, and the US president took him up on the offer earlier this month. There had been some back-and-forth over the past few weeks, as the Ukrainian leader attempted to secure more favorable terms. It was expected that the two leaders would sign a version of the accord on Friday.
Despite the fact that the Ukrainian government reviewed and greenlighted the agreement on Wednesday, the deal has apparently been left in limbo after the fiery exchange at the White House on Friday.
The meeting turned sour when Trump told Zelensky he had to negotiate peace with Russia, after which the Ukrainian leader dug his heels in and insisted that the US should continue supporting his country. Vance soon joined the fray, reasserting Trump’s remarks that Zelensky had failed to show enough respect and gratitude toward the US.
In a post on X, Fox News journalist Jacqui Heinrich wrote that “Trump kicked out Zelenskyy – he did not walk off on his own.”
She further quoted an unnamed member of the White House staff as claiming that the Ukrainian delegation was “begging to reset but [Secretary of State Marco] Rubio and [National Security Advisor Mike] Waltz informed them Zelenskyy needs to leave [the] White House grounds,” and that the Ukrainian leader could “return when he’s ready for peace.”
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01 March 2025
04:55 GMT
Congressman Greg Steube slammed Zelensky’s confrontational tirade in the White House as “ridiculous grandstanding.”
“Ridiculous grandstanding by Zelensky in the Oval Office,” the lawmaker wrote on X.
“The United States has spent hundreds of billions of dollars to defend Ukraine. And this is the thanks the American people get?” he said.
04:33 GMT
The era of blank checks for Ukraine is done, Rep. Mark Green said in a press release on Friday, commenting on Zelensky’s scandalous visit to the Oval Office. The lawmaker said Trump offered a “beyond generous” deal for Ukrainian mineral resources.
”Instead, President Zelensky came into the Oval Office and disrespected the President of the United States,” Green said.
”Well, guess what—the era of blank checks is over,” he said.
”A 50/50 split is beyond generous. No mining company and its investors would ever do that deal. Most mining companies get 90% and the country gets 10%,” the lawmaker said.
03:58 GMT
Zelensky needs to apologize for turning his bilateral meeting with Trump into a “fiasco,” State Secretary Marco Rubio told CNN on Friday.
He should “apologize for turning this thing into the fiasco for him that it became,” the top diplomat said. “There was no need for him to go in there and become antagonistic,” he added.
He noted that Ukrainian leader’s attitude could be viewed as a reluctance to work towards a peace deal.
“And so you start to perceive that maybe Zelensky doesn’t want a peace deal. He says he does, but maybe he doesn’t,” Rubio said.
03:31 GMT
Congressman Pat Harrigan took to X to commend Trump’s handling of the meeting, praising his adherence to US interests.
“America’s priorities come first. @POTUS and @VP made it clear—Ukraine’s interests are not America’s interests,” he wrote.
“We’ve spent hundreds of billions with no accountability, no clear objectives, and no plan for peace,” Harrigan stressed. “It’s time to put America first and end this war.”
03:12 GMT
House Republican Conference Chairwoman Lisa McClain praised Trump as a peacemaker, replying to Trump’s Truth Social post about the confrontational Friday meeting.
“President Trump inherited this war. He has said from the beginning he wants to bring peace,” she wrote on X.
“I know his negotiations will bring a deal together,” McClain added.
03:10 GMT
Senator Eric Schmitt praised the position Trump and Vance took in Friday’s meeting with Zelensky as firmly pro-American.
“It’s about time we have leaders who say what the American people are really thinking and prioritize the core national interests of America,” he wrote on X.
“The American taxpayer is tapped out, and President Trump and VP Vance are spot on,” Schmitt underscored.
02:49 GMT
Zelensky retweeted words of support from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in the fallout of his scandalous meeting with Trump.
”Canada will continue to stand with Ukraine and Ukrainians in achieving a just and lasting peace,” Trudeau wrote on X.
02:42 GMT
Slovenian President Natasa Pirc Musar took to X to support Zelensky, branding Friday’s White House meeting as a fundamental threat to diplomacy.
“Slovenia upholds the principles and respect of international law and international relations. What we witnessed in the Oval Office today undermines these values and the foundations of diplomacy,” Musar wrote.
“We stand firmly in support of Ukraine's sovereignty,” she added.
02:30 GMT
Zelensky praised Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo for his support, following the scandalous White House meeting.
“Finland and the Finnish people stand firmly with Ukraine,” the official wrote on X. “We will continue our unwavering support and work towards a just and lasting peace.”
02:17 GMT
Majority Leader Steve Scalise stressed that Trump has been the first leader to sit down with Russia to discuss a serious and long-term peace in the Ukraine conflict.
“President Trump is fighting for PEACE,” he wrote on X. Trump is “the only one to get Russia to the table to consider a serious and lasting peace agreement with Ukraine,” Scalise said.
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Each day that passes makes a conclusive Russian victory in the Donbass and beyond more certain. As Russia bolsters her forces, and weaponry, those of Ukraine decrease. Russian forces gain ready access to rest and recuperation as troop numbers increase. The increasingly exhausted and demoralised Ukrainian troops have an ever decreasing prospect of such respite. This situation is likely to bring them to complete breakdown as Russia unleashes the firepower of the more modern and advanced weaponry that is arriving with the newly mobilised Russian troops.
The various Ukrainian offensives are now weak when confronted by the reinforced Russian lines. A few futile efforts achieve quite miserable results before fire reigns down on the Ukrainian troops and they are forced back to their starting positions.
And now, all this being said, we have arrived at the wet, and later, freezing conditions where these pathetic Ukrainian forces will be subject to myriad forms of abject misery with death and injury all around them while they lie sodden or frozen, abandoned to their fate by Kiev.
The pitiable young and old of Ukraine have been frogmarched to their deaths as cannon-fodder while the bestial elites of the collective West urge their "president" to add more to their number there at the gates of Hell and their doom. We must feel for the majority of them as they are not the Nazis we revile, in most part they are decent men, fathers, sons, brothers, husband and uncles, who no doubt saw through the coup of 2014 for what it was. But sadly, their fate seems sealed.
Nothing will stop Russia now. Every factor favours them. Victory will be Russia's. In Donbass and beyond and in due course across the world.
Victory belongs to Russia: It is now only a matter of time.
WITH ZELENSKY’S DRESSING DOWN BY TRUMP & VANCE FOR DISRESPECTING THE USA, PLUS IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDINGS AGAINST HIM IN UKRAINE, IS HE FINISHED?
This ‘summary’ from Lukyanov’s piece, sadly, captures the present: “And two small remarks. First, Zelensky now has the opportunity to appreciate the restraint and even tactfulness of the Russian president, no matter how they feel about each other. Second – the war continues.””