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Tears and shock in Ukraine and Europe after heated Zelensky-Trump meeting

KYIV — A confrontational White House meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and President Donald Trump drew exasperated and fearful reactions from European and Ukrainian observers, as Kyiv’s hopes of aligning Trump’s view of the war with its own dwindled with each heated exchange.

“I’m just crying because of what I hear,” a Ukrainian lawmaker said of the meeting, speaking on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the situation.

Just the word “wow” is how Oleksandr, 40, a Ukrainian military officer fighting in Russia’s Kursk region, responded to the footage of the argument.

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Zelensky claims ‘not sure that we did something bad’ after Trump Oval Office blowup — but ‘of course’ can fix bond

WASHINGTON — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denied wrongdoing Friday night in his first public remarks since a major Oval Office argument with President Trump that upended talks to end his country’s war with Russia.

“I’m not sure that we did something bad,” Zelensky told Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier when asked if he owed Trump an apology — before saying moments later that “of course” the relationship between the men can be mended.”I respect the president and I respect the American people,” the 47-year-old leader said in the interview, without admitting fault for clashing with Trump and Vice President JD Vance earlier in the day.

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Zelensky’s Tweet After Disastrous White House Visit Is What You Post When You’ve Been Totally Defeated

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had a disastrous visit at the White House today. President Trump slapped the man around. It was a brutal five-minute exchange which led to Zelensky being kicked out of the building. The lunch was canceled, with the joint presser scrapped.

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President Trump’s judgement of Zelensky …

Trump kicks Zelenskyy out after their Oval Office blowup

President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance berated Volodymyr Zelenskyy as Ukraine’s leader sought security guarantees as the U.S. tries to bring an end to the Russia-Ukraine war.

h/t Patti Jo and Hermes

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Who Caused the Counter-Revolution?

Trump’s first month is a shock treatment to decades of spending, open borders, and bureaucratic bloat—restoring what was lost while critics decry the cure more than the disease.

At some point, some president was going to have to stop the unsustainable spending and borrowing.

To have any country left, some president would eventually have had to restore a nonexistent border and stop the influx of 3 million illegal aliens a year.

Some commander-in-chief finally would have to try to stop the theater wars abroad.

But any president who dared to do any of that would be damned for curbing the madness that his predecessors fueled.

And so none did—until now.

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Trump: EU was formed to screw USA – and they’ve done a good job of it

The European Union was formed in order to screw the United States, Donald Trump has declared.

Speaking during his first cabinet meeting, the US president said: “The European Union was formed in order to screw the United States, that’s the purpose of it. And they’ve done a good job of it. But now I’m president.”

The president says his administration planned to impose tariffs on the EU very “very soon”.

Full meeting.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Europe, European Union, President Trump, USA

MSNBC Panel Feels Like a Funeral After Analyst Tells Hard Truth About Trump

MSNBC’s legal analyst Danny Cevallos nearly brought a panel to tears when he pushed back against the headlines suggesting that President Trump is suffering devastating courtroom defeats over his executive orders.

“Over the weekend, I read all these headlines and the headlines were like, Trump suffers legal blows,” Cevallos said. “Another one was, Trump hit with unexpected loss.”

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Donald Trump’s first month as U.S. president was planned political disruption not chaos

It only looks like chaos.

In just a month in office, Donald Trump has sown disorder if not bedlam at home and worldwide by promulgating a dizzying number of executive orders, attacking long-time United States allies, imperiling many of the globe’s principal trade patterns, throwing tens of thousands of government workers out of work, ending long-time foreign-aid programs, questioning established notions of American civic life – and more.

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Jamie Sarkonak: Trump’s empire dismantling should please woke decolonialists

Decolonization is one idea that has fuelled, and now, doomed the left. The prospect of dismantling western states and ceding ground to new, morally just, decolonized successors excited its members and inspired a certain revolutionary excitement; the pleasure from blaming the world’s problems on nebulous racial forces was all-consuming.

The ascendant right can’t allow itself to fall into the same kind of self-sabotaging death spiral. But boy, will it be tempted. You can already see it happening to the south.

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From Murdered White Farmers to ‘Racially Disfavored Landowners’: Why Trump and Musk Are Targeting South Africa

In October 2016, heavily pregnant Mariandra Heunis was putting her youngest to bed in their remote South African farmhouse when she heard the chilling sound of a gun cocking. Turning around, she saw two intruders standing before her.

“They started shouting aggressively; my husband woke up. They demanded money, to which we, in turn, responded that we don’t have money and do not have money in the house, but they could take whatever they want if they just leave us unharmed,” Ms. Heunis, who, like the rest of her family, is white, told me when I interviewed her in 2018. “But he just started shooting. I was terrified. I couldn’t stop the bullets.”

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Europe’s Leaders, Dazed by an Ally Acting Like an Adversary, Recalculate

Faced with undisguised hostility from the Trump administration, Europeans are preparing for what is shaping up to be a go-it-alone era.

For years, European leaders have fretted about reducing their dependence on a wayward United States. On Monday, at a hastily arranged meeting in Paris, the hand-wringing gave way to harried acceptance of a new world in which Europe’s most powerful ally has begun acting more like an adversary.

President Trump’s plan to negotiate a peace settlement in Ukraine with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, with neither the Ukrainians nor Europeans invited to take part, has forced dazed leaders in capitals like Berlin, London and Paris to confront a series of hard choices, painful trade-offs and costly new burdens.

So the emerging consensus narrative is to smear President Trump’s administration as “adversarial” for asking fellow NATO members to pony up their fair share if they want a seat at the table.

No pay no play was inevitable and they’ve known it for years.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEurope, NATO, President Trump, USA

Trump Is Displacing the Old Ruling Class

Trump’s instincts are Machiavellian in the best sense of that word. His massive changes have produced great resistance from the old order.

Jim Holmes, Chair of Maritime Strategy at the Naval War College and Distinguished Fellow at the Krulak Center at the Marine Corps University, is one of our country’s leading public intellectuals. He is a throwback to Alfred Thayer Mahan, a naval officer and perhaps our country’s greatest public intellectual of the late 19th-early 20th century. Holmes has an interesting take on President Donald Trump’s approach to governing in his second term, comparing Trump to Niccolo Machiavelli, the brilliant Florentine statesman and the author of timeless classics on politics, including The Prince and Discourses on Livy.

Burnham understood that political change often results from … the “circulation of elites” — when a new ruling class takes power from the old ruling class.

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A Trump peace deal on Ukraine would signal his plans for the rest of us

So, just like that, the fate of a nation is decided. After three years of bloody warfare Ukraine may finally have peace, something it desperately needs. But how, and on what terms? If Donald Trump gets his way, which is very likely, it will be imposed from above, with conditions highly favourable to the country that started the war in the first place.

The amateur historians out there can’t quite decide if this is Trump’s “Munich” (i.e. a sell-out of a small country to an aggressor, à la Neville Chamberlain’s deal with Hitler in 1938 to dismember Czechoslovakia) or his “Yalta” (the summit meeting in 1945 where the victorious American, British and Soviet leaders divvied up Europe into spheres of influence).

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