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21-02-2025
WASHINGTON/ KYIV: US President Donald Trump has escalated his attacks on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, calling him a “dictator” and saying he “better move fast” on a deal to end the war with Russia.
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Robert Hamilton, the head of research at the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Eurasia Program, says that President Trump’s attacks on President Zelenskyy are “a very bad sign for Ukraine, for Europe, and I would argue, for American security, as well”.
Speaking to media, Hamilton rejected Trump’s claim that his administration is spearheading negotiations the Biden administration was unable to see through.
Instead, the researcher said the Trump administration’s actions have set back the prospect of a breakthrough in attempts to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Earlier today, President Trump attacked his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a social media post, calling him a “dictator” for not holding elections in the midst of Russia’s invasion of the country.
On stage at Miami for the FII Institute summit, Trump has repeated his criticisms of Zelenskyy in front of an audience of business leaders, in some cases almost verbatim.
“They’re no longer dealing with the same United States as they were dealing with a few months ago,” Trump said of Ukraine, accusing his predecessor Joe Biden of not pressing the war-torn country hard enough for a financial return.
Trump called Ukraine a “modern-day Gettysburg”, describing the bloodshed as Russia’s war in the country continues. He also asserted that Ukraine had pulled out of a deal that would give the US rights to rare earth minerals in the country in exchange for security.
US officials allegedly requested ownership of more than 50 percent of Ukraine’s rare earth minerals, according to media reports.
“We had a deal based on rare earth and things, but they broke that deal but they broke it two days ago,” Trump said.
“ Zelenskyy has done a terrible job, his country is shattered, and millions and millions of people have unnecessarily died and you can’t bring a war to an end if you don’t talk to both sides,” he added.
“They haven’t been talking for three years. So we hope to see a ceasefire soon and to re-establish stability in Europe and the Middle East.”
The reason that Donald Trump is doing this is that he is notoriously thin-skinned.
And he is not happy about the comments that Volodymyr Zelenskyy made earlier. The fact that he said that Donald Trump is living in a Russian-made disinformation space.
That is what provoked this sort of lashing out by Donald Trump.
He’s a bully and so, as a result, he is responding to that and calling Volodymyr Zelenskyy not a Ukrainian leader but, in fact, a modestly successful comedian referring to his previous occupation but he’s also really negotiating too. This comes on the heels of that meeting between US and Russian officials in Saudi Arabia. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
