Poor Volodymyr Zelensky. Who hoped that during the face -to -face meeting Donald Trump He could deal with a little more graceful the Ukrainian president, he was wrong. In the oval studio, the US president literally scrambled the colleague of Kiev, canceling the press conference and asking him to return only when “you will be ready for peace”.
Almost a humiliation, in Mondovision. Twenty minutes against each rule of diplomacy. Much land on the ground, maybe too much. Much more than the insults of the past few days (“dictator”, “modest comedian”) and the requests of rare lands in exchange for weapons. The Ukrainian president arrived in Washington in theory precisely for this: To convince Trump to guarantee Kiev’s security Before signing the agreement on minerals coveted by The Donald. But everything ended up in quarrel. In practice, both the president and JD Vance accused Ukrainian of not being grateful, he tried to answer. But the omelette is now done.
The evening begins with a question in Trump on the US positioning: “I am not aligned with anyone, I am aligned with the United States of America and the good of the world”, replies Trump, refusing to “say terrible things on Putin” and to struggle to treat “with that type of hatred” that moves Ukraine instead. Zelensky’s face does not hide irritation. Then everything ends up in the illness when JD Vance adds that the US intends to abandon the path of Joe Bidenvery hard against the Tsar. In summary: No more clashes between powers, the Trump administration intends to attempt the path of diplomacy. Phrase that makes Ukrainian President lose patience. Who, in front of journalists, recalls that the Russian aggression dates back to 2014 and that from 2017 to 2022, that is, during the previous Trump government, the situation was the same and that no one stopped Putin. “People died along the contact line.” Immediately afterwards Zelensky reiterates that one ceased the fire, years ago, had already been signed with a lot of exchange of prisoners to whom Putin, however, has never followed. Despite those pacts, Russia still invaded the country again in 2022. Then the accusation: “Which diplomacy is JD Vance about?”.
Before the dispute continued in front of the cameras, JD Vance tried to close the press conference and go to discuss it in private. But for Trump it is “positive” that “the American people can see what is happening”. “You must be grateful – said the US President to Zelensky – You don’t have cards. You are buried there. Your people are dying and you are running out of soldiers. You can’t say continuously that you don’t want the fire. If I could get it now, I would tell you to take it as it comes at least the bullets stop flying. The problem is that we gave you the opportunity to be a tough, and I don’t think you would be a tough without the United States. You will have to compromise with the Russiaand you will not return to fight if a peace agreement will be reached. Either make an agreement or we are out. And if we are out, you will fight. I don’t think it will be cute. Once the agreement has been signed, you will be in a much better position, but do not behave in a completely grateful way. And it’s not a nice thing. I will be honest. It’s not a pretty thing. ”
Obviously no agreement on minerals has been signed. Trump asked Marco RubioSecretary of State, to bring out the Ukrainian delegation from the White House. Zelensky included.
The dispute had echo, of course, also in Russia: “The insolent pig has finally received a nice flaking in the oval studio – said former Russian president Dmitri Medvedev – and Donald Trump is right: the Kiev regime is playing with the third world war”.
Below the video of the dispute. You can put subtitles in Italian