Trump's 'dictatorial massacre' in Ukraine, Zelensky's 'disinformation', Europe '2 vs. 2'

 

Trump's 'dictatorial massacre' in Ukraine, Zelensky's 'disinformation', Europe '2 vs. 2'

 

As the Ukraine War was transformed into US President Trump's definition of President Zelensky as a 'dictator massacre' and President Zelensky as 'Trump's disinformation trapped', European media outlets have shifted the structure of 'Europe and Ukraine' to 'US and Russia'.

On the 19th, President Trump, following 'dictator', pointed out Zelensky, not Putin, as the mastermind behind all the massacres.

"I love Ukraine," Trump wrote on TruthSocial on the 19th, "but Zelensky has done a terrible thing, his country has been torn to pieces, and millions of people have died needlessly."

 

Dmitry Medvedev (Vice Chairman of the Russian Security Council), who served as President for three years as a senior advisor to President Putin, told X on the 20th, "Zelensky, a dictator without elections, will not have a country left if he doesn't move quickly." If you had told me 3 months ago that this was the President of the United States, I would have laughed out loud. @realDonaldTrump is 200% right. Bankrupt clown...> 

President Zelensky claimed on the 19th that President Trump was living in a “disinformation space” created by Russia, the AP reported.

The New York Times reported on the 19th that Vice President J.D. Vance said, “The idea that Zelensky is trying to change the president’s mind by badmouthing him in the media is a terrible way to handle this administration,” the Daily Mail reported.

The NYT went on to say that Vance said in 2022, “I don’t really care what happens to Ukraine,” and went so far as to warn Zelensky not to fight back.

The NYT said, “Trump’s revisionism is setting the stage for a geopolitical landscape not seen in generations as he negotiates with Russia, and Ukraine fears it could be its own sacrifice,” and “By smearing Zelensky and shifting blame for the war from Moscow to Kiev, Trump appears to be creating an excuse to withdraw support for an ally under attack.”

 

Olaf German Chancellor Scholz said on the 19th that denying Zelensky's democratic legitimacy is "wrong and dangerous" and that "it is in accordance with the provisions of the Ukrainian Constitution and election law that orderly elections cannot be held during a war. No one should say anything else," he told Der Spiegel in Germany.

The AP reported that "Germany is the second largest arms supplier to Kiev after the United States," and that "British Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke with Zelensky on the 19th and 'emphasized the need for everyone to work together,'" according to Starmer's office.

 

Former LDP Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Masahisa Sato and Keio University Associate Professor Michito Tsuruoka provided an analysis of the U.S.-Russian talks for Ukraine negotiations on BS NTV's "Deep News" on the 19th.

Former Vice Minister Masahisa said, "President Trump expressed confidence in the prospects for ceasefire negotiations, but if Russia prepares for war again, the ceasefire will be meaningless." 

Vice Professor Tsuruoka said of the unscheduled US-Russia summit, "The differences in positions between the US and Russia are so great that we are not yet at a stage where we can coordinate the details of a ceasefire." 

 

Euractiv reported on the 20th that Ihor Zhovkva, President Zelensky's foreign policy adviser, said in Brussels that "Europeans should bring Europe's representative, a single voice, to the negotiating table as soon as possible," adding that "Ukraine's pressure stems from concerns that it may end up negotiating alone against the United States and Russia, and in the worst-case scenario, Kiev will be in a position of 2 (Ukraine and the European Union) versus 2 (Russia and the United States) instead of 1 vs. 2 (Russia and the United States)."

Euractiv is an independent pan-European media network specializing in EU issues founded by Christophe Leclercq in 1999.

 

The New York Times reported that during Trump's first term, in order to clear himself of the charge of "supporting Russia for the election victory," Zelensky demanded an investigation into Biden's corruption, and Zelensky carried it out, which eventually became "grounds for impeachment" and even led to his being "responsible for the Zelensky massacre."

 

Former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, who was Trump’s ally, lawyer, and contact with influence-seeking Ukrainians, encouraged this thinking, and Trump increasingly came to view Ukraine as a personal enemy, the Times reported.

 

Charles M. Kupperman, Trump’s first deputy national security adviser, likened Trump’s actions to the British prime minister trying to appease Adolf Hitler by agreeing to give him part of Czechoslovakia.

“History will remember Trump as a Neville Chamberlain-like surrender artist,”

Kupperman said in an interview with the Times. “Trump spent his first term in office driven by a fervent desire to disprove Russian collusion in the 2016 election, and he wanted to show that he won without outside influence or interference, and his reputation was tarnished by claims that he won with Russian support. Ukraine was a way for him to show that he won without that help,” he said on the 19th.

This ultimately led to Trump’s famous secret phone call with President Zelensky in the White House in the summer of 2019, which was recorded and eventually exposed and led to his impeachment, in which he “demanded Zelensky investigate the United States,” which later pressured Ukraine to help discredit Biden, then a leading Democratic presidential candidate, by announcing a corruption investigation.

At the same time, Trump withheld military aid to Ukraine, only to lift it after pressure from aides and Republican senators. The revelations about his actions led to his impeachment in the House of Representatives in late 2019.

 

The 2019 secret phone call incident was reported by the New York Times on September 29th of that year:

<Because the calls were expected to be routine, no one bothered to put special limits on the number of people who could sit in the “eavesdropping room” in the White House and monitor them. More than 30 minutes later, it quickly became clear that the call was anything but.

Risk flags began to rise shortly after President Trump hung up the phone on July 25, 2019. Instead of a head of state offering yet another formal congratulations on the recent election, the call turned into Trump’s suggestion that a Ukrainian leader who needed additional U.S. aid “do us a favor” and pressure him to investigate Democrats.

The alarm among officials who heard the conversation led to extraordinary efforts to prevent too many people from learning about it. According to a whistleblower who disclosed the conversation on September 26, White House officials embarked on a campaign to “seal” the call over the next few days, removing it from regular electronic files and hiding it in a separate system typically used for classified information.

But rumors began to spread anyway, setting off a chain of events that eventually led to the public release of the details of the call, and now Trump is at risk of being impeached by the Democratic-led House for abuse of power and betrayal of office. 

The story of the past two months is one of a White House trying to protect a president who is crossing a line that others would not, only to find that the very government he frequently disparages is exposing him.

A whistleblower, a former CIA official who once worked in the White House, wrote in his complaint, declassified and released by the House Intelligence Committee, that “the White House officials who told me this information were deeply disturbed by what happened on that phone call.”>

 

“They told me,” the whistleblower said, “that discussions were already underway with White House lawyers about how to handle that call because they likely witnessed the president abusing his power for personal gain.”

President Trump showed little sympathy or support for Ukraine when Russia launched a full-scale invasion in 2022 under the Biden administration.

 

The Times reported that “Trump showed neither sympathy nor support, even as blue and yellow flags flew across the United States in solidarity with the Ukrainian flag,” and that “days before the Russian attack, Trump praised Putin for pressuring Ukraine, calling it a “genius” move.” In doing so, Trump singles out Zelensky, not Putin, as the perpetrator of all the carnage, the Times reported. “‘I love Ukraine,’ he wrote on TruthSocial on the 19th, ‘but Zelensky has done a terrible thing, his country has been torn apart, and millions have died needlessly.’”