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[–] merdaverse@lemmy.world 234 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (7 children)

At first, Zelensky rejected the proposal, but the two countries eventually reached an agreement on a revised version. Zelensky traveled to Washington to finalize and sign the deal.

However, tensions escalated when Zelensky tried to explain Russian President Vladimir Putin’s lack of diplomacy to Vice President Vance. Vance accused Zelensky of “litigating” in front of the media and criticized him for appearing in photos with Democrats during the 2024 campaign. He also said Zelensky’s comments were “disrespectful” to the Trump administration.

This sounds just like a setup to humiliate Zelensky and justify this shit to the MAGA brains. Trump and Vance weren't planning on signing the deal. Pure and simple propaganda. But MAGAs don't have enough neurons to see it.

[–] numlok@lemmy.world 55 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Appearing in media with members of the current administration (just like now)? How dare he!

Also, a side thought I had recently: I wonder how these conservatives would feel if Mexico invaded and captured territory in Arizona? I mean, it wasn't that long ago that it actually was a part of Mexico, and a lot of the population still identifies with that country. Just cede the land to avoid conflict, right?

Edit: Plus, everyone knows Arizona has a Nazi problem, so the invasion would be totally justified, right? Right? lol

[–] Tja@programming.dev 6 points 18 hours ago

New Mexico could suddenly be old.

[–] tankplanker@lemmy.world 23 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I think a big part of this being cancelled at this late stage is Europe stepping up and offering peace keepers. I do not think Trump counted on that and wanted the deal with basically no peacekeepers. All along, he was was no to supplying security.

This would have given putin time to rebuild and carte blanche to renew the attack when he was able. Putin can't do that if Europe is in Ukraine as that would be a massive escalation.

[–] DrFistington@lemmy.world 18 points 20 hours ago

Yeah, I hate to see the US being such a fucking shit ally, but the one silver lining is that Europe does seem to be warming up to the idea of putting boots on the ground and beefing up support for Ukraine.

Russia isn't going to stop trying to expand, especially after the tactical knowledge they've gained. All they want is a break to resupply and rebuild their army. Personally, I think we should have started sending in special covert 'peacekeeping' troops several years ago, and given Ukraine top tier kit when Wagner started marching to Moscow. We could have been in a position to devastate Russians military capability. Instead fucking Republican traitors held everything up. Screw the Arab spring, we need an American Spring. Get your scopes sighted in and your bugout bags ready

[–] lemmylommy@lemmy.world 20 points 21 hours ago
[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 6 points 17 hours ago

100%. They were never going to give support to Ukraine.

[–] finkrat@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago

Could even have been a plot to ruin Zelensky's reputation on Russia's behalf per their disinformation campaigns

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

yea they almost always needed soundbites for fox, to "reassure maga" brains. as far as news is going they needed to distract from things like his epstein news all the time, everytime that thing comes up, MSM try to pitch an outlandish news to distract the masses.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

It's a win win for them. They get a political win, a promise of money, or both. There's still a chance the deal gets signed in order to keep getting American weapons. From Zelensky's point of view they can always slow roll the payments.