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A Startling Silver Lining in Zelenskyy's Tantrum

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There's been a lot of conjecture in the aftermath of the failed negotiations between the Trump White House and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy. Chief among them is the inability to understand Zelenskyy's motives that day. Was he crazy, coke-addled, stupid, or some combination of the above?

There's no telling what was going through his mind at the time but, whatever it was, I feel it's pretty safe to say the resulting breakdown was completely intentional. This wasn't an accidental clash of egos. Nor can it be chalked up to some linguistic breakdown.

This is not Trump's first negotiation. Indeed, he literally wrote the book on the art. It also wasn't his first state-level negotiation, either, having successfully forged a number of international deals including the Middle East peace accords in his first term.

And Zelenskyy spends as much time grifting with foreign heads of state as does in his own country. Say what you will about the man, he understands protocol. That's how we know that he did everything he could to sabotage the deal.

First of all, Zelenskyy has promised time after time he would sign President Trump's proposed mineral deal, but as many times as that annoucement has been made, it's always followed by pulling out at the last minute, just as he did Friday.

That's not a negotiation tactic unless his intention was to underscore his role as a bad faith actor.

Speaking of acting, that was Zelenskyy's trade before he was intalled as Ukraine's leader by our CIA. Actors are meticulous about appearances. They understand the symbolism of every prop, every article of clothing, and the placement of every hair on their heads. Zelenskyy is not such a poor man that he couldn't pack a suit to wear when he talks with the leader of the free world in the White House. The choice not to wear a suit was deliberate. It was a clear attempt to needle President Donald Trump.

Further evidence is found in his insistence to open the proceedings to the media rather than follow the normal proceedure and work out differences behind closed doors. I'm certain that once this request was made known, the Trump White House knew that there would be no deal signed that day. The "negotiations" were little more than a setup to create a media scene, what President Trump himself called "great television."

The whole spectacle was an example of staged disrespect. Disrespect for America, her voters, and the leader she elected by a popular majority.

Keep in mind that before entering public discussions with our president, Zelenskyy met with a bipartisan group of senators behind closed doors. Oh gee, what would a cadre of powerful Democrats and establishmentarian Republicans have to say to Zelenskyy before he took quite literally to the stage to stand opposite their nemesis Donald Trump?

Whatever it they said, we can be certain it wasn't, "Nice shirt."

Ask yourself why it was necessary to keep this meeting under wraps while at the same time demanding the White House be stuffed with reporters.

It's pretty clear that Zelenskyy was coached. That's not to absolve him of any guilt. Actor or no, puppet or no, he didn't have to ruin his country's best chance at peace just because Senators Klobuchar and Graham told him to do it.

However, the question remains why they coached him the way they did.

People aren't paying enough attention to Zelenskyy's "ocean" comment during the on-camera discussion. It caught my notice right away. According to The Independent's transcript, Zelensky said, “[There are] a lot of questions. Let's start from the beginning. First of all, during the war, everybody has problems, even you, but you have a nice ocean [in between], and don't feel it now, but you will feel it in the future. God bless you.”

Is this merely a remark about our geographic good fortunes as a country?

That's not the first thought that crossed my mind when I heard this. Instead, I immediately recalled a debate comment by a Canadian Liberal Party prime minister candidate.

During that debate, leading candidate Chrystia Freeland solemnly intoned, "Trump is posing the gravest challenge our country has faced since the second world war." She also called America a "predator" and emphasized the need for Canada to forge anti-American military and nuclear alliances with countries like Denmark, France, and the UK.

There's no ocean between the US and Canada. Was this the idea Zelenskyy was going to finish? That our days of geographic fortune are numbered?

That may not have been his exact intent but it's clear that scaring Americans with the specter of being isolated on the world stage is an idea the globalist community is trying to conjure.

Witness not only the uniform establishment media reaction to the ill-fated Friday meeting, but the insane European Union response. By the end of the day, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European "Parliament" Roberta Metsola, European Council President Antonio Costa, and EU Commissioner Valdis Bombrovskis all put out the same X post, worded in the exact same way.

I suppose this EU freakout would have been felt with an iota of intimidation here in the US were it not for the fact that none of us care what a bunch of self-proclaimed "leaders" of the vaunted EU think or feel about literally anything.

And that's why this play is so hard for Americans to spot. It's hard to imagine how we could be intimidated by the likes of countries like Canada, the UK, or quasi-nations like the EU. We fund their defense and do all the heavy lifting for their weapons development in the first place. Without American support, they're in no position to be throwing their weight around.

Now let's go back to that special bipartisan senate meeting where the staging for Friday started. Look at the flow of events with the understanding that the subsequent reactions were, like those X posts by EU, not at all spontaneous. What do we see?

1) Zelenskyy is coached by our senators

2) He then does everything to ratchet up tensions and sabotage proceedings

3) The meeting not only goes poorly, but falls apart live and on-camera

4) The US media reacts with well-rehearsed outrage

5) The globalist-controlled "international community" dutifully parrot

All part of the show.

What this means is that the establishment resistance within our government is increasingly running out of options. After spending the first full month of the Trump presidency taking the stunning and brave stance in support of government corruption and the bilking of our taxes for personal gain and partisan power, support for these self-styled "resistance" measures are understandably at their lowest point.

Between immigration, DEI and corruption, the Democrat party in particular has taken the least popular stance imaginable. Polls show they aren't gaining new voters but losing them at a stunning pace.

What's a floundering and unpopular politician to do? Well of course they rely on their international cohorts for additional rhetorical leverage. Having international lackeys in key positions of power all around the world is a globalist strength, after all.

So we're faced with a situation both new and strikingly familiar. It's the same old tactic where smug elites attempt to deride and thereby isolate President Donald Trump. Only this time instead of tenured gender researchers in academia, taking heads in the dinosaur media, and despised celebrities in Hollywood; Leftists have added to the mix the condemnation of European world leaders.

There's no doubt the chorus has grown larger. Yet it's still just the same song that no longer has purchase on American minds.

What's more, it's insulting to be called out for not putting the blood of our soldiers on the table by a bunch of countries who condescendingly criticize our lack of exorbitant government benefits. Especially when their social program largess is essentially paid for by their freeloading off the defense we provide them with.

And when you think about it, the fact that the Democrats and establishmentarian GOP have to outsource their latest rollout of OrangeManBad is a really good sign. It means the globalists are losing significant territory here in the US.

It's a tactic fated to fail. Americans don't care about the EU, Ukraine, or Canada. Nor do we what they think -- especially when we're the ones they're relying on to subsidize their anti-American snobbery.

What's frightening, though, is how little thought they give to the lives of the people dying in massive numbers in the conflict. To these smug elites, another day, month, or even year of bloodshed is nothing compared to being able to post coordinated zingers like, "Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people." After all, they're sticking it mean old Donald Trump, right?

Such unbelievable callousness in the face of a delayed end to an unprecedented human tragedy. This the kind of inhuman indifference that lost American establishment politicians the good will of their voters. It's a lesson the Europeans will also undoubtedly learn firsthand. Before too long.