Editor’s Note: The original headline sent to me was “This Is Why The Bitter Feud Between President Trump And ‘President Z’ Has Just Brought Us Even Closer To Nuclear War.” This makes it sound as if President Trump is somehow to blame for the escalation in Europe, which he is not.
The problems in Ukraine, including the prolonging of the war, fall squarely on the collective shoulders of Volodymyr Zelensky, his disciples in European Union leadership, NATO, and the previous administration in the United States. Also, I edited the story that kept referencing Zelensky as “President Z,” replacing those with his actual name for clarity. Here’s the post…
(The Economic Collapse Blog)—All of a sudden, sending European ground troops into Ukraine has become a very hot topic. In fact, the British are openly discussing the possibility of doing this quite soon. Of course the Russians have already warned that if the British send ground troops into Ukraine, military targets inside the UK will become legitimate targets. Needless to say, the moment the Russians start conducting military strikes inside the UK, the U.S. would be forced to intervene and we would be right on the brink of nuclear war.
The British must not do this. But they are so determined to demonstrate which side that they support in the feud between President Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky that they might do it anyway.
Global events are moving so rapidly that it is really difficult to keep up with everything that is happening. Early on Wednesday, Zelensky accused President Trump of living in a “disinformation space” during a discussion with reporters…
“Unfortunately, President Trump, I have great respect for him as a leader of a nation that we have great respect for, the American people who always support us, unfortunately lives in this disinformation space,” Zelensky told reporters early Wednesday.
Zelensky went on to explain why Trump is supposedly wrong about a number of things.
Did he not understand how Trump would react? If you want to get Trump on your side, you don’t say bad things about Trump.
Anyone that has been paying any attention for the past eight years should know this by now.
President Trump responded by absolutely shredding Zelensky on Truth Social…
Think of it, a modestly successful comedian, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, talked the United States of America into spending $350 Billion Dollars, to go into a War that couldn’t be won, that never had to start, but a War that he, without the U.S. and “TRUMP,” will never be able to settle. The United States has spent $200 Billion Dollars more than Europe, and Europe’s money is guaranteed, while the United States will get nothing back. Why didn’t Sleepy Joe Biden demand Equalization, in that this War is far more important to Europe than it is to us — We have a big, beautiful Ocean as separation. On top of this, Zelenskyy admits that half of the money we sent him is “MISSING.” He refuses to have Elections, is very low in Ukrainian Polls, and the only thing he was good at was playing Biden “like a fiddle.” A Dictator without Elections, Zelenskyy better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left. In the meantime, we are successfully negotiating an end to the War with Russia, something all admit only “TRUMP,” and the Trump Administration, can do. Biden never tried, Europe has failed to bring Peace, and Zelenskyy probably wants to keep the “gravy train” going. I love Ukraine, but Zelenskyy has done a terrible job, his Country is shattered, and MILLIONS have unnecessarily died – And so it continues…..
This single social media post immediately caused a firestorm of controversy to erupt all over the globe.
And I don’t think that the damage that has been done will be easily repaired.
Zelensky can forget about having President Trump in his corner from this point forward. Vice-President Vance just told the press that President Z has chosen “an atrocious way to deal with this administration”…
‘The idea that Zelensky is going to change the president’s mind by badmouthing him in public media … everyone who knows the president will tell you that is an atrocious way to deal with this administration,’ said Vance during an exclusive interview in his West Wing office.
And many of President Trump’s most ardent supporters on social media are gleefully pointing out some of the ways that Zelensky has abused human rights over the past several years. For example, the following was posted by the DC_Draino account on Twitter…
He’s in year 6 of his 5 year term
Declared martial law Feb 2022 and has banned elections since then
Banned 11 political parties
Passed law in 2022 to censor journalists and combined all news into 1 gov’t station
Journalists investigating his corruption get conscripted and thrown on the front lines to die
Even Saddam Hussein held elections!
On the other side, the corporate media in the United States has responded extremely negatively to Trump’s call for an election in Ukraine because they are concerned that “President Z” could be voted out of office…
Much more alarming is how the Europeans are responding to Trump’s comments.
I think that the British government hates Trump so much that they might be willing to deploy ground troops to Ukraine just to spite him.
And the British media is eagerly rallying public support for such a move. For example, the following comes from a BBC article that was just published entitled “British Army ‘absolutely ready’ if ordered to deploy to Ukraine”…
The British Army has said it is ready to deploy to Ukraine if requested by the government.
This week, 2,500 UK troops from the Army’s high readiness force, the First Division, have been taking part in a large Nato exercise in Romania – on a training area just 16 miles (25km) from the border with Ukraine.
Although mobile phones have been banned on the exercise, most soldiers are aware that there are now initial discussions to send troops to Ukraine itself.
Wow.
And NATO’s former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander just wrote an article for the Daily Mail in which he boldly declared that it was time for the UK to “make plans for conscription” because “Trump has left us no other choice”…
NATO’s former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe, Sir Richard Shirreff, writing in the Daily Mail, said: “Though many will find it unthinkable, we must be prepared to call up our reservists – and make plans for conscription. Trump has left us no other choice.”
I am speechless.
So because Trump wants peace, the British have to hurry up and escalate the war so that peace won’t be possible?
What kind of madness is this? What do you think will happen if British troops really do get deployed to Ukraine? It won’t be pretty, I can tell you that.
In addition to hitting British military targets inside Ukraine, the Russians have already said that they will hit British military targets outside Ukraine. And then there will be full-blown war between Russia and a member of NATO.
At that point it would be impossible for the U.S. to stay out of the conflict and we would literally be on the verge of nuclear war.
But at this point the British are desperate, because they are absolutely determined to keep the Ukrainians from losing. The Russians have conquered quite a bit more territory within the past ten days, and unless western troops intervene Ukraine’s front lines will continue to crumble…
While the eyes of the world are glued on the US-Russia Peace Process led by Donald J. Trump and Vladimir Putin, the war follows unabated with the same prospects as before: Russian Federation forces steamrolling the Ukrainian defenders.
In the last 10 days, a cursory search shows that Russia has conquered the settlements of Orekhovo-Vasilevka, Dachnoye, Dzerzhinsk, Yasenovoye, Vodyanoye Vtoroye, Zelenoye Pole, Berezovka, Figolevka, Yampolovka and Sverdlikovo.
Everyone just needs to calm down.
But every time Zelensky badmouths our president, Trump is going to hit back even harder.
And that will just give the Europeans more motivation to consider sending in ground forces.
Of course that is exactly what Zelensky has been wanting all this time. He has been searching for a way to get European troops to intervene. So if he realizes that badmouthing Trump will help him achieve that goal, he may just throw all restraint to the wind and really start going for it.
In any event, we are now much closer to nuclear war, and that is certainly not good news for any of us.
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Why does the author assume that if the UK unilaterally decides to send troops into Ukraine, we are obligated to intervene on their behalf? NATO is a defensive treaty. Ukraine is not a NATO member. If the Brits send troops into Ukraine, that would be an offensive action, we are not obligated to support offensive actions and Trump should issue a statement spelling that out.
The UK, the global elites, the EU etc don’t get to drag us into a war nor keep us in a war. If they want war, let them fight it by themselves.
If I were Trump, I would tell Britain and other NATO allies that if they send troops and Russia launches strikes on their homeland that they are on their own. The stupid, reckless actions of one NATO ally should not obligate the others to come to their aid.
Maybe the CIA should remove him?
Why not? They installed him.
It wouldn’t surprise me if it happened.
Alas I believe Trump, who I’ve voted for twice for President, is the one bringing us closer to war. He seems to be rushing head long into becoming the Neville Chamberlain of our time. He seems to have bought the Russian dictator’s propaganda hook, line and sinker. Please tell me how appeasing a dictator is EVER a good idea…sure babble on about your inane narrative, make it a personality issue pertaining to Zelensky, let Putin off for all the war crimes and direct interference into practically all his neighbors sovereignty plus the fact he and his minions have stated repeatedly that Ukraine is just the first step. Believe what you will and cherry pick the data but Trump is now the problem. Such is the risk you take electing a populist. Maybe concentrate on the home front and doing the right thing in foreign policy and do not mix the two it’s a toxic mix that does not allow for rational actions.
Fraud, Liar! The criminal Obama administration overthrew the form Nation of Ukraine in a Coup, using USAID and the CIA. They turned Ukraine into a money laundering operation making themselves and their pals very wealthy on the backs of an entire generation of Ukrainian people and off of the pocket book of the American people. Not only should this war never have taken place, its origins must now be fully investigated and all those responsible should be charged with War Crimes and receive their just punishment. England and Zelenskyy must be held accountable and anyone else involved in these war crimes.
You are confused about this matter, have a very limited understanding of the facts about it, and strangely are eager to share that confusion and ignorance with the world.
Thank you for your comment Oscar. So, how is the weather in Ukraine where you’re at tonight?
You are a F@ing idiot–The US started this war in 2014–
You never voted for Trump. One sentence of Trump affirmation, then you launch straight away into a large monologue of pure MSM, Globalist, New World Order agit-prop. Russia, the size of Texas, is planning on conquering Europe? Where did you get that? Rachel Maddow?
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Everything you said is wrong. It’s not worth it to argue history vs your fantasy, but it is interesting to me that if you replaced Putin with Netanyahoo and Russia with Israel in your comment, I’d agree almost completely.
Also, you are arguing that he should keep us fighting a proxy war with Russia that we are losing so he can focus on domestic issues? That makes sense to you? If you look at it without the propoganda clouding your mind, all he’s doing is disengaging the US so he can do what you claim you want.
Time for England to end? Kings are so 18th century. Perhaps a coalition of former enslaved colonies should invade England, their German “royal family” and their banking system and put an end to them and their evil. Perhaps it’s time for pesky little “Brittan” to come to an end, they’ve cause so much trouble in the world for centuries, sticking their noses in everyone else’s business, causing trouble in all of these nations and regions of the world. Perhaps Keir Starmer should become Keir Former like Qassam Solimani or Osama Bin Laden. Voldemort Zelenskyy, the Money launderer, should be treated the same way, along with the money laundering operation called “Ukraine”. It is interesting that NATO, of which the Criminal enterprise called Ukraine is not a member, is sticking their nose in a fight that they should have nothing to do with, Ukraine is not a member. Follow the Money.
The UK now seems to have collectively lost its mind. This plan of theirs is suicidal, not just for them, but perhaps for the entire planet. I remember when the liberals were peaceniks and all for free speech. Today’s leftists are pro-war and censorship.
1) The amount of unaccountable money Bribem threw at that corrupt grifter to cover up he and his son’s illegal activities in Ukraine is obscene. We have spent more money on a conflict which is not our problem than we did in WW2!!!
2) Readers need to investigate the number of mansions suddenly owned by that humble politician and the number of shopping vacays president Z and his wife take in Europe. See if all those billions went to the defense of Ukraine or the young men he sent to die.
3) Zelensky is a man who has not only done all the illegal and immoral acts listed in this article, but has also closed down churches in his country. He has made his country more corrupt than ever before. He has taken away liberties that should have shocked the world. But CNN says he is a brave hero, so the sheeple say baaaaaa.
4) This war should have never started, and it is astounding to know that the world doesn’t understand or even know about that fact. All NATO had to do was announce it had already decided not to allow membership to Ukraine (which was what Putin demanded) and those two countries would still be at peace. Bribem’s fingerprints are all over this war.
5) Why on earth did it take the election of a new US president for the world to find out what was going on behind the scenes? Why is Trump seemingly the only one who understands that Putin is not a horned, evil monster and Zelensky is not a saint? Why did it take Trump to wake up the world about the amount of billions America threw at this and the amount that all of Europe COMBINED (whose problem it actually IS) DIDN’T spend? Why is Trump the only world leader to care about peace? To care about the horrific, unacceptable loss of life in this war? Why did neither party in congress notice or do anything about this violent conflict? Why did they insist on a cease fire in the Mideast instead? Why is Trump the only man standing between us and nuclear war? And why isn’t Bribem in federal prison?
They want to conquer Russia–Let the English go to Ukraine and watch Russia bomb them out of existence–
Everyone forgets that the Ukranians, after the 2014 coup, started replacing their regular troops with Nazi affiliated militias like the Azov battalion and others, because the regular troops refused to go into ethnic Russian areas to kill civilians but the Nazi militias were happy to do so. They forget that this process was bankrolled by American aid. That in the years before the war the Ukranians murdered and cut water and power off to ethnic Russians, as well as harassed them with laws about speaking of being Russian.
Joining NATO may have been the tipping point, but for Russia, protecting ethnic Russians in Ukraine was something long overdue.
So the UK want to send a weeks worth of casualties to Ukraine? I mean, their army is so depleted (and inexperienced) that they’d be tapped out after that. Just let them do it. I don’t think Article 5 covers retaliation for a member state that attacks a foreign nation and suffers retaliation. Trump should just state from the get go that he won’t participate in a conflict that starts that way. Will Europe then send troops to attack us? Do they have any troops besides US troops?
Make a deal with Putin that if they won’t use nuclear weapons, the U.S. will stay out of it. Make a second deal with Putin to target bombs to liberal leaders and to enclaves of Muslims and Mosques in the UK (including Scotland and Ireland). Wipe out the dictators and invaders from within. That will become a win/win for both Europeans and Russia.
That has been his role all along.