You can’t help but admire President Zelenskyy who, unlike some world leaders, who seem perfectly happy to pander to Trump’s oversized ego, is prepared to speak his mind and tell the one occupying a ‘disinformation space’ how things really are.
As in all good circuses, the one currently taking place at the White House, orchestrated as it is to try and make the President of the United States look good despite his trying to profit from war, has both a strong man and a clown.
And I think we all know which one is which.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has, on numerous previous occasions, expressed gratitude to America for helping Ukraine in the war against Russia.
So then, Donald Trump’s insistence yesterday that the Ukrainian President should now publicly and personally thank him – presumably for calling him a dictator, accusing him of starting the war, and rewarding his Russian aggression by opening negotiations with Putin, whilst at the same time offering to relieve his country of a sizeable chunk of its mineral wealth – reveals the so called leader of the free world to be someone motivated by his own self interest rather than any genuine desire to do what is right.
Furthermore, his desperate need to be admired by all and sundry explains the appalling disrespect he himself showed the office of the U.S. Presidency when he called his predecessor ‘stupid’.
But what Trump doesn’t appear to understand is that people are admired for their kindness, honesty and integrity, and not for their greed, unreliability and opportunism.
Or that those who are genuinely strong, far from throwing the weight around in order to gain more of what they already have, give of themselves for the benefit of those in need.
Yesterday then, was a bad day at the Oval Office. More than that it was undoubtedly a sad day for the world, and most especially Ukraine who meanwhile continued to suffer in the face of yet more Russian missile strikes.
But it was sad day too for the United States of America, revealing as it did just what that once great nation has now become.
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