Everything about President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance kicking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s sorry, begging, petulant, pompous, entitled ass out of the White House last Friday is the perfect encapsulation of America First foreign policy in practice, not just in theory. This is exactly what I voted for, and I couldn’t be more proud of our leaders for practicing what they preach, consequences and optics be damned.
From start to finish, that White House press conference was a diplomatic masterclass in not just pragmatism and defending American interests, but also what to do when confronted with lies, veiled insults, weirdly deceptive threats (yeah, the staffer who probably showed Zelensky Red Dawn as meeting prep should absolutely be fired!), and all around boorish behavior from someone who is clearly used to being worshipped and catered to by world leaders everywhere.
The fact that Zelensky thought his globetrotting circus act would play in front of Trump and Vance with no pushback shows that the Ukrainian dictator, who also strangely thinks he can win the ongoing war against Russia, is more deluded than any of us ever imagined. To their credit, they were mostly patient for the first 40 minutes of that clown show, but when Zelensky began questioning the very idea of diplomacy itself, Vance and Trump soon after had had enough.
Things went downhill fast at that point, and if you’re an America First type, watching Trump and Vance surgically berate Zelensky for basically being an entitled, ungrateful little b*tch was a thing of beauty. But the best part was how it ticked off all the right people. Virtually every Democrat and neocon from John Bolton to John Brennan was shocked, shocked I tell you, that Trump dared be less than civil to the modern-day Churchill. Well, I never!
The lunch went uneaten by its intended guests, and Zelensky went back across the pond with his tail between his legs, carrying a host of supportive X posts from cucked world leaders with nothing of substance to offer but zero deals brokered by the good ole U S of A. He and his legion of supporters worldwide continue to refuse to see or consider the obvious realities on the ground that Trump and Vance see: Ukraine can’t win the war outright, even with continued help, and giving the kind of help it would take to actually win it (i.e. nuclear) would result in World War III, an outcome nobody should want.
In fact, what most reasonable, non-brainwashed people SHOULD want is for their country to at least be on non-enemy terms with other nuclear powers. Yet, for some reason, expressing the desire to be civil with Russia has become an unpardonable sin, at least to leftists and neocons. But it makes zero sense, unless of course there are nefarious motives for them to think this way.
I wouldn’t want to live in Russia, at least while the USA, for the most part, remains a Constitutional Republic. I will always prefer that to a de facto dictatorship. Still, the assertion by so many people whose opinions I detest on every other issue that they are or should be our ‘enemy’ seems dubious. WHY does Russia have to be our enemy? I still have never heard a logical answer.
From where I’m sitting, the left thinks so only because Russia is run by anti-woke elements and is perceived as having helped Trump. They don’t put up with gender ideology and the other woke BS that has infected the West. That’s it. That’s the reason. It’s not the killing or the invading because if it were any of those things they would have hated the communist old Soviet Union, but they loved that, didn’t they?
And the neocon right hates Russia partially for the same reason, because at heart they’re leftists, but also because those psychos are itching for another bloody world war. So yeah, I know I’m supposed to hate Russia, but I’m having a tough time mustering the emotion. Hating the left and the neocons though? Now that’s easy!
Sadly, the fact that Zelensky and his supporters are happy to continue to kidnap Ukrainian men off the streets to be devoured by the Russian meat grinder says a lot about how little they, despite their endless virtue-signaling, actually value human life. For his part, Trump is trying to broker a deal between two untrustworthy dictators. That’s a tall order, even for him. But, given the willingness he displayed to walk away when things weren’t going the way they should have gone, if anyone can succeed, he can.
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