I watched the entire press conference with Zelensky. There was 40 minutes of discussion up to the argument. Most people saw at most the last ten minutes. The whole video gives the proper context.
When I first watched the argument without the proper context, I thought it was possible that Trump and Vance ambushed Zelensky or were even trying to humiliate him. That's not what happened.
You had 40 minutes of calm conversation. Vance made a point that didn't attack Zelensky and wasn't even addressed to him, and Zelensky clearly started the argument.
In the first 40 minutes, Zelensky kept trying to go beyond what was negotiated in the deal. When Trump was asked a question, it was always "we'll see." Zelensky made blanket assertions that there would be no negotiating with Putin, and that Russia would pay for the war. When Trump said that it was a tragedy that people on both sides were dying, Zelensky interjected that the Russians were the invaders.
For his part, Trump made clear that the US would continue delivering military aid. All Zelensky had to do was remain calm for a few more minutes and they would've signed a deal.
The argument started when Trump pointed out that it would be hard to make a deal if you talk about Putin the way Zelensky does. Vance interjects to make the reasonable point that Biden called Putin names and that didn't get us anywhere.
The Zelensky/Trump dynamic was calm and stable. It was when Vance spoke that Zelensky started to interrogate him. Throughout the press conference to that point, everyone was making their arguments directly to the audience. Zelensky decided to challenge Vance and ask him hostile questions. He went back to his point that Putin never sticks to ceasefires, once again implying that negotiations are pointless. Why on earth would you do this? Then came the fight we all saw.
Zelensky was minutes away from being home free, and he would have had the deal and new commitments from the Trump administration. The point Vance made was directed against Biden and the media, taking them to task for speaking in moralistic terms. This offended Zelensky, and that began the argument.
I've been a fan of Zelensky up to this point, but this showed so much incompetence, if not emotional instability, that I don't see how he recovers from this. The relationship with the administration is broken. Ukraine should probably go with new leadership at this point.
Gavin Newsom March 2023: We are deploying 1200 tiny homes by Fall at a cost of 750 million taxpayer dollars.
Reality: Two years later neither the 1200 tiny homes or 750 million taxpayer dollars can be found
Gene Hackman and his wife are murder victims, some scum bags did it and staged it. Stop talking about the films he is in, this is how they get away with murdering famous people! Fake News starts generating film clips. How is it possible I know at least 6 people who have died like Carradine, Hackman, Ledger?
🚨🇬🇧🇺🇦 Starmer:- “You have full backing of The United Kingdom”
“We stand with Ukraine for as long as it may take”
“The people of The UK came out to demonstrate how much they support you & how much they support Ukraine”
Notice Keir Starmer never tells you what “what standing with Ukraine actually means other than laundering more British Tax Payer Money to the most corrupt Country in Europe.
Yesterday, Zelensky's military recruiters snatched another young man off the street, threw him into a black van as he screamed, and left behind his dog.
Thousands of videos online show Ukraine forcibly drafting young men to fight in an unwinnable war.
One of the most striking things about yesterday’s Zelensky press conference was Lindsey Graham’s reaction to it. The two are old friends, but Graham disavowed him within the hour. This was more than just transactional disloyalty. It was scapegoating. Lindsey Graham knows what’s coming. Over the past three years, with the tacit support of its western patrons, the Ukrainian government has committed a remarkable number of serious crimes. The Ukrainians sold huge quantities of American weapons on the international black market at twenty cents on the dollar. These weapons are now in the hands of armed groups around the world, including Hamas, the Mexican drug cartels and the forces now controlling Syria. God knows what the Ukrainians have done with the pathogens in American biolabs in their country. Even US intel agencies aren’t sure. The Ukrainians have also murdered a number of people in various countries in political assassinations, and tried to murder others, including American journalists and a European head of state. This is all true, and it’s all going to come out at some point. Better to start blaming it on Zelensky now.
@piersmorgan Oh please, UK has never committed fully to war unless on their own land. They dip their toe in as soon the uniforms get messy they back out. Financially- they are sinking. I call BS.
Played victim to this war while he pretends that he is actually in the war fighting along side. Knows how to work the media playing victim. The gig is up! I feel for the Ukrainian people.
🇺🇸🇺🇦🚨‼️ JD Vance confronted Zelensky on the forceful mobilization, that is what he means!
People are mercilessly grabbed and forced I to the military.
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@MyLordBebo Zelensky is a liar. Russia is not the enemy to Ukraine’s people Zelensky is Zelensky praise on the naïve. Where is the 52B Zelensky states is missing. No more American taxpayer money to Zelensky!
🇺🇸🇺🇦🚨‼️ JD Vance confronted Zelensky on the forceful mobilization, that is what he means!
People are mercilessly grabbed and forced I to the military.
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@FoxNews Then let these countries back Ukraine with their citizens taxes. Plus funny how there hasn’t been any press releases from other countries stating so. I call BS.