It comes after the Ukrainian president suggested Donald Trump was "living in a disinformation space" created by Russia.

Trump takes swipe at Zelensky’s leadership

“Zelensky better move fast or he is not going to have a country left,” US President Donald Trump says in a post on Truth Social.

Labelling Zelensky “a dictator”, Trump writes: “I love Ukraine, but Zelensky has done a terrible job, his country is shattered, and MILLIONS have unnecessarily died.”

Trump says in the meantime, the US is “successfully negotiating an end to the war with Russia”.

For context: Zelensky’s presidential term expired last May, however Ukraine has been under martial law since the Russian invasion in February 2022, which means presidential elections are suspended.

  • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Zelinsky is in a really bad spot here. He’s almost entirely dependent on US assistance to even fight the war, and has to defend himself from attacks from the person he directly relies on for that assistance without pissing him off and causing him to cut off aid because his fee-fees are hurt. Trump could cut US support at any time and there’s nothing that Zelinsky could do about it.

    That said, I’m actually surprised that Trump is still even pretending to support Ukraine, when it’s been long established that his plan all along has been to hand Ukraine over to Russia on Russia’s terms. There was an article I posted sometime back which was removed by the mods because the source was considered “questionable” and the article sounded like Russian propaganda, but it’s mostly turning out to be true. The article said:

    • The plan doesn’t take effect until Easter, allowing Russia to continue making land grabs until that point.
    • Ukraine cedes all Russia-occupied territory to Russia.
    • Ukraine cedes all Ukraine-occupied Russian territory back to Russia.
    • Ukraine cedes even more land to form a DMZ between Ukraine and Russia to be manned by Europe.
    • Ukraine is permanently banned from joining NATO
    • Neither NATO or US troops will serve as a deterrent to either prevent or respond to a Russian attack should Russia decide to attack again.
    • .

    It couldn’t have been more lopsided if it also added a clause saying Putin gets to fuck Zelinsky’s wife. The Easter Deadline that Trump wants has already been confirmed, and Hegseth all but confirmed the rest of it. I’m sure that Trump is just hoping that Zelinsky will just roll over and go along with the plan, but Trump’s position is pretty obvious: Either Zelinsky surrenders unconditionally or Trump is just going to hand the country over to Putin anyway.