The Question Which Derailed The Ukraine Peace Deal
This was the moment when the Ukraine peace conference, under the glare of the world’s media, began to unravel, and it was sparked by a question from the media:
A journalist from Poland who grew up with the romantic notion that the US was the strong arm of world peace, flexing its muscles, not as a negotiator, but as a ‘force for good’, had spoken to his friends apparently and they are all concerned that Trump is aligning himself too much with Putin. He asks Trump what his response is to their concerns. Trump responds quite reasonably that he is not ‘aligned’ only with Putin but is ‘aligned’ with both Putin and Zelensky, as mediator, in order to try to strike a deal (which must per se involve compromises from both sides). He goes on to ask the questioner whether he wants him to say “really terrible things about Putin” and then try to get a deal? As Trump points out, “it doesn’t work that way”.
But this is the spark which lights the fuse which quickly derails the talks as they descend into a heated quarrel, involving Trump, Zelensky and Vance. J D Vance appears to take umbrage at the suggestion that the US should be expected once again to play the world’s policeman and strongarm its way to a tense peace. He believes in diplomacy, in grown up debate, rather than force (or the threat thereof). This is the new geopolitical reality under the US Trump administration and it is obviously a very important aspect for both the President and the Vice President. So the Pole touched a raw nerve by suggesting the US go back to its ‘old ways’ by supporting Europe to beat up the bullies. Then Zelensky weighed in on Vance and the room exploded.
Who was the man from Poland? He has a lot to answer for with his naive and rather juvenile questioning. He just (inadvertently?) scuppered perhaps the last realistic chance of stopping the proxy war in Ukraine from going global - unless Ukrainian politicians very quickly get rid of Zelensky by impeaching him.
So, the coke snorting midget, second rate actor/comedian flies straight to London and Starmer and Reeves hand him another £2.6 billion of UK taxpayer funds during a warmongers' love-in at Downing Street. The little shit looks so happy to be with friends after the grown-ups in America told him where to get off. How lovely. The British people, the farmers, the pensioners, the sick, the elderly, the oil workers, the chemical factory workers, those struggling to pay their fuels bills; they can all get fucked as far as Weird Stalin and Rachel from Accounts are concerned. The Ukrainian conman and his meat grinder/cash laundry are far more important.
To be clear: I'm British. I stand with America. I stand with Trump and Vance for peace. I stand for the Fallen - both Russian and Ukrainian. I stand for the Ukrainians press-ganged into serving on the front line and being slaughtered soon after.
I stand AGAINST Zelensky, against the war whores of the EU, NATO, the British media, the British political establishment (Conservative, Labour and even Reform) - all of whom wish to prolong the senseless killing and the theft of taxpayers' money, for a deliberately provoked and manufactured conflict which nonetheless threatens to escalate into WW3. I stand opposite the War Pigs - on the right side of history. I am utterly sickened by this unfolding spectacle now - going on in MY country.
The adolescent-level thinking that has been so pervasive among our so-called “leaders” is that “Putin = evil so therefore everyone should say the worst things they can imagine about him” reminds me of middle-schoolers.
Is Putin going to withdraw from Ukraine because he doesn’t want to be called a poo-poo bum face? Or is it more realistic, among adults, to try to engender at least some level of mutual goodwill and encourage the peaceful settling of differences, no matter how you may feel about the belligerents?