Zelenskyy's Strategic Blunder
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What's up? What's up, everybody? Welcome to a brand new episode of Part of the Problem. I am Dave Smith. He is Robbie the Fire Bernstein. And man, we got a good one to break down today. How are you, Rob?
You know, Friday was one of the most exciting media days. We do this all the time. We're commenting on things all the time, and it's always exciting. But very rarely do you get a WWF showdown like what we saw in the White House. And I did an episode about it yesterday. I'm excited to get into it with you now. And we've got fun stuff to get into.
I mean, it is. Yeah, you really can't kind of overstate how wild it is. Let me just real quick before we get into this, because there's a lot to talk about. A couple orders of business. I should mention that me and Rob will be in Buffalo, New York. on the 6th and the 7th, and then one night only in St. Catharines, Ontario on March 8th. And then coming up a couple weeks after that, we are back at Laugh Boston in the great city of Boston, Massachusetts. Very much looking forward to all of that. ComicDaveSmith.com for all of those ticket links. And of course, I will be returning to the Soho Forum to debate Alex Norwash on immigration. thesohoforum.org for those tickets. If you want to come, it'll be a live debate in New York City.
Looking forward to that very much. Okay. So, yeah, that was this. It was a pretty incredible moment. And you just like like you said, we do not see things like that ever. I would there's there's so many different angles here to kind of break all of this down. But I guess I would have to say the starting point is that that has got to be. The biggest political strategic blunder by Zelensky that I've ever seen. I've just never seen anything like that. And I don't, you know, I'm not going to get into like too much psychoanalysis. I like to try to stay away from that stuff. I don't know Zelensky personally. I don't know. who was in his ear or why he thought that would be a good move. Perhaps it comes from being on the cover of Time and Vogue and just everybody kissing your ass and being treated as this hero internationally for the last three years. Perhaps there were other American fans politicians who were in his ear encouraging him to do this.
But the idea that he would that his move when he is completely dependent on Donald Trump to the point that his life might be on the line, but certainly his nation is. And when you're completely dependent on Donald Trump for your move to be. I'm going to try to alpha Donald Trump on national television in a language I don't really speak very well. I mean, I've never seen anyone go into anything with a worse game plan than On anything. I mean, everybody knows, no matter who it is, that is the one way you cannot come at Donald Trump. And he attempted it. It went exactly as you would have predicted. And it really does seem like this was a... A huge fork in the road where things just went in a different direction.
I will say overall, I think it's great. And I think it's better for the prospects for peace that Donald Trump is like, screw this guy. But I just I kind of can't get over like what was Zelensky thinking?
Well, I think that's the genius of Donald Trump is that he knows television. And I think they did not actually have a deal going in. I know that they're claiming that they did, but I saw Zelensky saying last week it was more of a preliminary discussion. And it seemed like they were assumptively closing him of... Isn't this great? We got the television cameras here and we're ready to get the deal done. The Trump team is claiming that it was a done deal and they wouldn't have brought him in without that. But I'd seen comments from Zelensky beforehand that sounded like classic sales. Hey, I got to speak to my wife. I got to talk to talk to my business partner. Didn't seem like Zelensky thought it was a done deal.
No, I agree with you on that.
was intending at least to come in and make a last pitch for let's fight him or I need a security guarantee. And so they sat him down to go, all right, we're here for the signing. Let's take some questions. And I think Zelinsky probably has been a difficult partner and they knew exactly how he would behave. And Donald Trump is a genius for putting it on television.
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