Colette Ellis

Cherish and love my family, lover of all gendres of music, photographer, trainer of brains (Speech-Language Pathologist), and despite the contrary...17 at heart

[Victor Davis Hanson @VDHanson]

Ten bad takeaways from the Zelenskyy blow-up

1. Zelenskyy does not grasp—or deliberately ignores—the bitter truth: those with whom he feels most affinity (Western globalists, the American Left, the Europeans) have little power in 2025 to help him. And those with whom he obviously does not like or seeks to embarrass (cf. his Scranton, Penn. campaign-like visit in September 2024) alone have the power to save him. For his own sake, I hope he is not being “briefed” by the Obama-Clinton-Biden gang to confront Trump, given their interests are not really Ukraine’s as they feign.

2. Zelenskyy acts as if his agendas and ours are identical. So, he keeps insisting that he is fighting for us despite our two-ocean-distance that he mocks. We do have many shared interests with Ukraine, but not all by any means: Trump wants to “reset” with Russia and triangulate it against China. He seeks to avoid a 1962 DEFCON 2-like crisis over a proxy showdown in proximity to a nuclear rival. And he sincerely wants to end the deadlocked Stalingrad slaughterhouse for everyone’s sake.

3. The Europeans (and Canada) are now talking loudly of a new muscular antithesis, independent of the U.S. Promises, promises—given that would require Europeans to prune back their social welfare state, frack, use nuclear, stop the green obsessions, and spend 3-5 percent of their GDP on defense. The U.S. does not just pay 16 percent of NATO’s budget but also puts up with asymmetrical tariffs that result in a European Union trade surplus of $160 billion, plays the world cop patrolling sea-lanes and deterring terrorists and rogues states that otherwise might interrupt Europe’s commercial networks abroad, as well as de facto including Europe under a nuclear umbrella of 6,500 nukes.

4. Zelenskyy must know that all of the once deal-stopping issues to peace have been de facto settled: Ukraine is now better armed than most NATO nations, but will not be in NATO; and no president has or will ever supply Ukraine with the armed wherewithal to take back the Donbass and Crimea. So, the only two issues are a) how far will Putin be willing to withdraw to his 2022 borders and b) how will he be deterred? The first is answered by a commercial sector/tripwire, joint Ukrainian-US-Europe resource development corridor in Eastern Ukraine, coupled with a Korea-like DMZ; the second by the fact that Putin unlike his 2008 and 2014 invasions has now lost a million dead and wounded to a Ukraine that will remain thusly armed.

5. What are Zelenskyy’s alternatives without much U.S. help—wait for a return of the Democrats to the White House in four years? Hope for a rearmed Europe? Pray for a Democratic House and a 3rd Vindman-like engineered Trump impeachment? Or swallow his pride, return to the White House, sign the rare-earth minerals deal, invite in the Euros (are they seriously willing to patrol a DMZ?), and hope Trump can warn Putin, as he did successfully between 2017-21, not to dare try it again?

6. If there is a cease fire, a commercial deal, a Euro ground presence, and influx of Western companies into Ukraine, would there be elections? And if so, would Zelenskyy and his party win? And if not, would there be a successor transparent government that would reveal exactly where all the Western financial aid money went?

7. Zelenskyy might see a model in Netanyahu. The Biden Administration was far harder on him than Trump is on Ukraine: suspending arms shipments, demanding cease-fires, prodding for a wartime, bipartisan cabinet, hammering Israel on collateral damage—none of which Westerners have demanded of Zelenskyy. Yet Netanyahu managed a hostile Biden, kept Israel close to its patron, and when visiting was gracious to his host. Netanyahu certainly would never before the global media have interrupted, and berated a host and patron president in the White House.

8. If Ukraine has alienated the U.S. what then is its strategic victory plan? Wait around for more Euros? Hold off an increasingly invigorated Russian military? Cede more territory? What, then, exactly are Zelenskyy’s cards he seems to think are a winning hand?

9. If one views carefully all the 50-minute tape, most of it was going quite well—until Zelenskyy started correcting Vance firstly, and Trump secondly. By Ukraine-splaining to his hosts, and by his gestures, tone, and interruptions, he made it clear that he assumed that Trump was just more of the same compliant, clueless moneybags Biden waxen effigy. And that was naïve for such a supposedly worldly leader.

10. March 2025 is not March 2022, after the heroic saving of Kyiv—but three years and 1.5 million dead and wounded later. Zelenskyy is no longer the international heartthrob with the glamorous entourage. He has postponed elections, outlawed opposition media and parties, suspended habeas corpus and walked out of negotiations when he had an even hand in Spring 2022 and apparently even now when he does not in Spring 2025.

Quo vadis, Volodymyr?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

To be clear here, the Verizon communication system to air traffic control is breaking down very rapidly. The FAA assessment is single digit months to catastrophic failure, putting air traveler safety at serious risk.

The Starlink terminals are being sent at NO COST to the taxpayer on an emergency basis to restore air traffic control connectivity.

The situation is extremely dire.

[Entium @Entium8]

@elonmusk must suggest @WashProbs

[AshleY @Aku_700]

@elonmusk 🔥 Brilliant 🔥 Victor David Hanson sums up Trump’s fight with the Washington insiders swamp and how ferociously they have tried to silence and eliminate him. 💯

[The Daily Signal @DailySignal]

Victor Davis Hanson: Trump’s Counterrevolution in Washington

@VDHanson discusses the misleading information about the first 30 days of the Trump administration’s actions, comparing it to FDR’s first hundred days. On this episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words,” Hanson describes the current period as a “Trump restoration” rather than a revolution, emphasizing it as a counterrevolution against the changes brought by the Obama administration.

“We don't really appreciate what we've been through with eight years of the Obama revolution and the four-year, more radical third term of Obama using or employing the wax effigy of Joe Biden. A revolution that we've experienced was a cultural, economic, political, social revolution.  It was very similar to the French Revolution under the Robespierre brothers. You should remember what they tried to do. They changed the days of the week. They renamed things. They tore down statues. They went after the churches. Does this sound familiar? ...

“ So this was a revolutionary movement. Movies were different. Sports were different. Take a knee. And Donald Trump came in and it was not sufficient to say we’re going to stop the madness of $37 billion. …  It’s a return to normalcy. It’s a return to common sense. It only looks revolutionary to revolutionaries. But to the rest of the people, it is a counterrevolution to restore normalcy and bring the country from the far-left fringes back home again.”

00:00 Addressing Misinformation
00:53 The Trump Counterrevolution
01:48 Comparing Revolutions: Then and Now
02:05 Radical Changes in Society
03:08 Political Shifts and Proposals
04:49 Trump’s Vision for Restoration
06:05 Conclusion

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

According to the Social Security database, these are the numbers of people in each age bucket with the death field set to FALSE!

Maybe Twilight is real and there are a lot of vampires collecting Social Security 🤣🤣

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

SEN. JOHN KENNEDY: DEMS PUT SPENDING PORN AHEAD OF TAXPAYERS!

"They mismanaged COVID, the economy, inflation, the debt, Afghanistan. They support illegal immigration over the law, trans athletes over women, Hamas over Israel.

[Rob Smith @robsmithonline]

Watch every second of VP JD Vance laying a blowtorch to globalism and censorship at the Munich Security Conference.

It is very much worth your time.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

https://t.co/djXWLR8mpK

[Patrick Bet-David @patrickbetdavid]

Stamina is by far the most intimidating quality an opponent can have.

President Trump’s level of stamina is second to none.

He’s doing the call from East coast (EST), which means it’s almost 11pm.

He’s been going for almost 3 hours including the delay.

As a founder of a few businesses, one thing I can tell you founders have as an edge over their peers is their relentless energy to keep going way past their opponents slowing down or stopping.

There’s nothing more annoying than an opponent that has unlimited supply of energy.

It’s annoying
It’s intimidating
It’s frustrating

And quite frankly it causes the type of envy that words can’t describe.

Your enemies are hoping you slow down.

They secretly hope for you to get sick or something happens to cause you to slow down.

Here are 10 questions to help with your decision of who to vote for?

1. How many interviews has Kamala done?

2. How many 3 hour podcasts have Obama, Kamala or Biden ever done?

3. Why not?

4. Is it because it’s risky?

5. Do you as a voter prefer one that’s willing to openly speak on a LIVE with zero scripts or teleprompters, or would you prefer all being calculated and scripted?

6. Who would you like to have negotiate on your behalf for the investment you make (taxes)?

7. Whose energy would you like if a war breaks out in the middle of the night?

8. Someone who only works 6 hours a day or someone who’s the real life energizer bunny?

9. Who do you trust doing more good with your money (taxes)?

High taxes = money to the govt
Low taxes = money in people’s hands

10. Who do you think our enemies want to see win the election?

A leader who’s relentless and constantly moving or one that’s low energy and flip flops half the time?

Vote accordingly.

Future looks bright 51%
Only the paranoid survive 49%

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

MUSK: “I’ve not been very political before… they try to paint me as a far right guy which is absurd because I like to make electric vehicles… I supported Obama. I stood in line for 6 hours to shake Obama’s hand… historically I was a moderate Democrat. But now I feel like we’re at a critical juncture for the country… For the people out there in the moderate camp, I think you should support Donald Trump for president.”

[Alissa Walsh @AlissaWalsh21]

Everyone needs to share this to further expose Planned Parenthood. @MattWalshBlog

[Colette Ellis @coletteslp]

@iamnot_elon Yes!

[Catturd ™ @catturd2]

So

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[George @BehizyTweets]

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Oh, how the turned have tables

We're WINNING

[Colette Ellis @coletteslp]

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[Douglas Murray @DouglasKMurray]

Mass illegal migration turns high-trust societies into low-trust ones. It turns coherent societies into incoherent ones. You can’t just address the backlash to that. You have to address the cause. Unless our leaders do that this will get infinitely worse.

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

The compassionate friendliness and casualness of true horror

Sodom and Gomorrah had nothing on us

https://t.co/dcgOkpiCUP

[Colette Ellis @coletteslp]

@jordanbpeterson @elonmusk Great interview! Enjoyed it!