The failed meeting between Volodymr Zelensky of Ukraine and the President of the United States Donald John Trump should not be a shock or a surprise to anybody. Political pundits may have diverse views on this fiasco. Trump is not and will never be a genuine peacemaker as he is more of a destroyer than a builder. Thank God that the United States overwhelmingly backed him to the hilt, especially white supremacists who share same extreme views of sheer American manipulation of small countries, when they ensured his comeback to White House in the November 2024 Elections.
The United States, King of the World in a self- driven and self- motivated lust for absolute power to dictate to the rest of the world that he is fully in charge of the universe, particularly the planet earth, as an ambitious political demagogue peddling excessive ambitions to rule the world as King in the guise of being a born again Christian at the White House !must not surprise anybody, particularly those who are deeply convinced and convicted in the heart that Trump is a paragon of peace, justice and fair play. The big-mouthed zealot is a very close associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the two have made up a “Jezebel Alliance” which will make the whole world dance to their tunes, even strip themselves before them in worship of the two secret allies. Trump is an overzealous, greedy and gluttonous and venomous power drunk elected tyrant who the world should beware of. His absolutism and tyrannical rule is now manifesting and likely to divide the world more than ever before. Trump will rejoice to see the ultimate downfall of Zelensky and the concession of the country to Russia which would be good for himself and his business associates in both Russia and the United States.
The quarrel at the Oval Office is a disgrace and a total shame in diplomacy. The truth is that Trump has had no diplomacy in his lifestyle typical of a megalomaniac obsessed with personal wealth inherited from his late father Fred Trump Snr.
The brutal dressing down of Zelensky by Trump who is ever interjecting when his guests have contrary views to his, must be the conduct of matters pertaining to his greedy rule running the next four years. All his opponents will suffer the persecution he has designed himself to suppress the members of the Democratic Party allies of Joe Biden. Joe Biden was very supportive of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine and did his very best to protect the people of Ukraine from the barbaric and brutal acts of aggression unleashed by Putin who has an ally in Trump.
Ukraine never invaded Russia. It was Russia at the behest of Putin which invaded Ukraine and declared war against the mineral-rich neighbour which had intentions to join the North Atlantic Organisation (NATO). Trump is up to weaken NATO and the European Union and upon weakening these two European bodies, he would augment America’s hegemony in global politics with the support of Putin who has found a best friend and hypocritical comrade in Trump. The greats who sustained the greatness of the United States in global politics such as Ronald Wilson Reagan, George Herbert Walker Bush, Henry Kissinger, Robert Dole, John McCain and Prescott Bush as Republicans must be turning in their graves over and over at the undiplomatic and brutal public behaviour of Donald Trump who lacks a firm political base since he does not have the practical and pragmatic competence of a shrewd politician that his predecessors had in the steering of statecraft.
When Trump sees cameras and journalists at the Oval Office, he gets over-excited and his natural nack for institutionalizing a personality cult in the sphere of absolute power and absolute rule takes precedence over diplomacy. Actually diplomacy is a strange bedfellow with Trump. He takes delight in shouting at fellow leaders and always disregards sound advice from genuine Republicans. He wants to anchor his strength in the control of all rich minerals across the continents of the world.
Trump said Zelensky does not have the cards to negotiate peace with Russia. He was right in his own right. However, the truth of the matter is that Trump does not want anybody to succeed in bringing peace between the Russian ally and Zelensky. Trump scolded Zelensky like a little grand child. His major intention was to have Zelensky surrender his country to Russia and this was going to help him access minerals to help boost the falling and failing business prospects in his business empire. He is a tax evader and a manipulative, divisive and proud guru of the white supremacists. It is now a question for America having a gangster in power and a law breaker making the law. To the best of my recollections, no man has been embarrassed as an ally of the United States in the manner that Zelensky was “undressed” by Trump before media cameras beaming the irate Trump and the reactive Zelensky. Marc Rubio the Secretary of State, a Latino self-proclaimed hand tool diplomatic house servant of Trump is now playing double standards, fearing that the axe of Trump would fall on the nape of his neck and decapitate him. All those Trump appoints to higher positions in government and his business empires must be high profile sycophants and political psychopaths who must be ready to be used as cheap mouthpieces magnifying him as an inerant and unmistakable leader of the world. He loves power and, given the chance to rule for the rest of his life with his mental lapses which he mocked Joe Biden about, he would be delighted to be the life Absolute King of the Planet Earth.
The courage of Zelensky at the Oval Office closer to a vulgar-ranting demagogue worshiped by miscreants and white divisive characters, moved my heart. Trump became red and his pink nose got a twist of annoyance and just became unruly and disrespectful of a fellow President in blatant and despicable disregard of international diplomatic etiquette which he knows little or nothing about.
Under Trump, America will be a bull dog which will bark and bite and break to pieces any perceived enemy of Trump. No one is capable of mollifying and taming the insane tyrant Trump who has had very good relationship with bootlickers and sycophants who could even promise to surrender their profitable business to the aspiring King of America.
The wagon-tail Vice President James David Vance failed miserably and shamefully to aid his superior Trump come to his senseless senses and numb sensibility. Trump will never ever condemn Putin, notwithstanding the mass killings of both peoples of Ukraine and Russia. Trump did demonstrate weakness as he wanted to display to the world his own version of lies that Zelensky does not want peace but a Third World War.
Trump had promised to end the three-year war in 24 hours upon being sworn in as 47th President of the United States but this was simply window-dressing politics of cheap popularity and publicity. He failed to make peace between Zelensky when he was bumped off power in 2020 and he will always fail to restore sanity to the world as long as he remains a true friend and business partner of Russian demon-crats who emulate his leadership style. The four years of prayer Putin (he could be an atheist/agnostic, only God knows him far better than us mortal beings) had embarked upon after the defeat of his admirer Trump in 2020 elections was the forceful and forcible return of his ally whose behaviour is just as childish as a five-year old child in a kindagarten.
The United Nations cannot end the war. The United States cannot end the war.Hundreds of thousands have died in Ukraine as failure of diplomacy has now taken its toll. Some of the figures pertaining to deaths have been underestimated. Rubio later said Zelensky should apologize to Trump. What a sycophantic appeal from the mouth of an over-ambitious Trumputinist disguised as a peacemaker with a cold heart unconcerned about thousands killed by Russian troops.
It is going to be the toughest time for Zelensky and his compatriots, but victory would not lie in the conquest of the Patriots in Ukraine led by Zelensky whom Trump wants eliminated by all means. Victory would be with the gallant warriors defending their country to the last drop of the blood.
Zambia could be exercising some form of neutrality in order to appease Trump and his cohorts. The Non-Aligned Movement established by the like of Josip Broz Tito of the former Yugoslavia, Fidel Castro of Cuba, Pandit Nehru of India, Julius Nyerere of Tanzania and Kenneth Kaunda among some others made it clear that Non-alignment does not signify neutrality. When the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968, KK of Zambia castigated the Kremlin for such an abhorrent aggression just as he condemned the United States’ troops presence in Vietnam. The Non-Aligned Movement seems to be as dead as the dodo after the departure of its aforementioned key pillars and founders but its vision must be carried on by people in the countries where such great leaders who espoused its vision ruled. Ukraine stands in the midst of Trumputinist politics of disrespect of international law and diplomacy and that of responsible, peace lovers and peacekeepers empathetic with its peoples endless agonies widely exacerbated by Russia and its cronies deeply entrenched in the minds of Trump and Putin. Zelensky may be rooted out by the overzealous Trumputinists. The truth to be handed over to posterity will be the fact that there was one young leader Zelensky who fought against Russian aggression to the last drop of his blood. Zelensky knows no Uncle Sam to simply wave a mighty wand from a standpoint of loyalty to gain cheap popularity and publicity. History is full of brave heroes who fought wars with giants as dwarfs but conquered giants and established great governments and brave leaders who had zero tolerance of foreign manipulation and domination.
Africa must be wary of Trump’s desire to take our minerals to his country and impoverish the continent to the level of beggars without borders. God forbid!
Author is Shaddon Chanda, Luanshya based Historian and Academician
Great article with all the V8 pistons firing in precision.Trump has all the red flags of past narcissistic leaders- Stalin ,Emperor Nero ,Saddam Hussein,Hitler ,Iddi Amin…and they all had bad endings to their abusive rule.
Pride comes before a fall ,and karma always knows everyone’s address for a painful payback.
When America abruptly changes mind, Europe feels humiliated and embarassed that they have to soldier on, hoping to go it singly. Alone! Shrek asked King Arthur: You and what army?
Ukraine even has a statute banning any diplomacy, negotiations with Russia. To bleed Russia at the expense of Ukraine, to the last man, was the Western aim. Without a truce, Ukraine will bleed more profusely comparable to Russia. Stop that war and do it now.
And he expects Zelensky whose people are being killed by Putin to like Putin and yet Trump himself hates Joe Biden to the hilt calling Joe Biden as Stupid and not smart. But maybe it’s the nature of politics globally, because just here in Zambia there is no real ‘peace’ or harmony between the ruling party and the opposition, there is only a ‘ceasefire’ for a few hours during the national day of prayer, after that back to square one of politics of hatred. Let us live in harmony, let us create one Zambia one nation. Let us see the leaders of the ruling and opposition dine together and I mean the real opposition, not opportunists like Nevers. A state banquet should not just be for visiting foreign leaders
He is full of self praise just like our own and yet poverty in the country is escalating each and every day
Okay Trump is a bad guy. But the Ukrainian president made a huge mistake by abrogating the treaty signed at the break up of the Soviet Union e.g. joining NATO. But of course Trump doesn’t even know the genesis of the current war… he’s just a blind supporters of Super Putin.
That diplomatic failure involving Trump and Zelensky aside. Bottom-line, this war has to come to an end, whichever viewpoints. Senseless loss of lives involving both sides, whilst others remain seated in their comfort zones. But, let us not forget the root cause of that war that should not have taken place. Probably a discussion for another time. War is bad, whichever form it takes. It even becomes more complex when it is a proxy-war.
Sera Vu
He know the true origins of the that war. His interest is to rally resources to impede Chinese nationalism. Don’t they want to unify with Taiwan?
Trump knows too well that he needs Russia on the American side. Come to think of it, Russia fought and won the two WWs. Russia is a strategic partner in that vein.
He is a rear exit of a sick dying pig.
Red Mamba
Three years ago, Put-in was said to be a sick dying Bear. Is he dead? When it so dawned on them, they tell us he died way back and this one we are seeing is his one of the several lookalike doubles. Amazing.
We wish dead those we don’t like.
You lost me once you mentioned white supremacist. It’s clear you watch too much CNN which is the least watched News network in America. There are more informed and educated black people like myself who voted unopologetically for Trump. He is a man of the people who loves his country and won’t let people like Zelensky take the United States for granted. The French President went to the White House and so was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. All of them went there within a space of one week.Why? Trump provides leadership that was lacking especially during the last 4 years. Without the United States, forget about peace between Russia and Ukraine.
Is the writer even aware of the war that was being fought on the Ukrainian boarder regions with Russia since 2014 ????
Is he aware that the 17% of Ukrainian population who are of Russian descent voted for autonomy in the regions bordering Russia where they are a majority ???
Is the writer even aware that Zelensky banned Russian language in schools and offices and banned Russian traditions and even the Russian church in Ukraine…….in use by 17% of the population ????
Trump has the right to be pissed off…….$350 billion spent , with no guarantee to get it back , while the USA is in deep financial trouble, and they want more ……..
FWD2031
Are you aware also that time will be up for your man when 2026 comes around 🙂
He may not be a genuine peace maker, but at least he is getting somwhere. Europe failed to help much. America did. Militarily, they failed. Diplomatically: they never tried.
The Misnk Treaty was abrogated on the premise that it was orchestrated by the West to make Ukraine buy more time to rearm, fight back Russia and finally join NATO..
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Today we want a pause the fighting and Trumps idea must be followed as Ukraine and partners work out future security guarantees.
Trump is right. After all, the US wants to invest in that country and surely will always protect their interests. Isn’t it enough guarantee that one can refuse and choose to continue fighting when you have no cards left? Stop the war diplomatically and not on the front line. Trump paused the Middle East confrontation. Give him chance to do it in and for Europe too. Europe is not going any where for now without Trump’s input.
Today we want to pause the fighting and Trump’s idea must be followed..
Why are you starving Zambians pontificating about Trump? When you are without food, without clean water to drink, without jobs, without freedom of speech, without city water drainage, without medicines in hospitals, without good schools and with regular cholera outbreaks??