Trump Gets Rude Awakening as Zelenskyy Strikes Back
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How did Zelensky respond to Trump's threats?
If Donald Trump thought that Ukrainian President Zelensky was just going to roll over, well, Donald Trump just got a rude awakening. President Zelensky of Ukraine is saying to Donald Trump, what makes you think that I'm going to give up so easily as you try to sell out Ukraine to Russia? I'm going to show you some clips. Of what President Zelensky recently said, this follows, of course, the United States under Donald Trump's authoritarian regime, sending Secretary of State Marco Rubio to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to negotiate directly with the Russians, led by their foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov. and the United States and Russia cut off Ukraine and Europe from being part of the negotiations. The plan was for the United States and Russia to carve up Ukraine, to sell it out to Russia, and then just impose their will And before this meeting, Donald Trump tried to get Zelensky to sign a piece of paper giving basically all of Ukraine's rare earth metals and rare earth materials to the United States in perpetuity.
So let me show you what Zelensky did as the United States totally capitulated and showed how weak the United States is going to be and the betrayal by the United States to Ukraine and to Europe. So before this meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, between the United States and Russia, let me show you what Zelensky said when he was asked why he did not sign the piece of paper to give up all of the rare earth materials belonging to Ukraine to the United States, especially with no security guarantees. Here, play this clip.
Problem with what they presented. What was the issue with what the Americans showed you yesterday?
It's not in our interests today. Not in interest of sovereign Ukraine. I'm just a president. I'm a manager. And after my term, there will be another manager. And these resources, this is not mine. Of our people. And I'm I'm a guarantor that these resources will have our children. With all partners, please, make profits, make business. It's open for your companies, in some cases, exclusive to your place. We are strategic partners, and that's why we trust Americans, American people, and Europeans, some European countries who helped a lot. It's about it, but it's not mine. I'm not... Take...
give so it's very serious things okay then following the meeting between uh the united states and russia rubio and sergey lavrov which russian press russian state media i should say and propaganda was loving it the united states bending its knee to russia this was the moment that russia always wanted having the united states kiss the ring of russia it was so humiliating for the United States. And as an American, it was so shameful to see this American regime so utterly weak and pathetic. But you know who wasn't pathetic? President Zelensky. President Zelensky went to Turkey where he met with the leader Erdogan there. And then Zelensky talked about and basically directed this message to Donald Trump saying, you think you're going to just cut us out?
You think that I'm just going to submit to what you tell us to do? Do you know the history of Ukraine? Do you know how valiantly we fought the Russians when nobody was by our side at first and then the rest of the world took notice? You think we're going to tap out that easily? Well, you don't know Ukrainians, Donald. Here, play this clip.
And we had no choice but to take up arms and defend ourselves. There was no diplomacy because Russia attacked Ukraine. ukraine at night and ukrainians took up arms and began to defend their country without the help of any country in the world that's how it was no one was helping ukraine at that moment but then when everyone saw that putin could not capture our country that our people were not going anywhere our military that the president of ukraine did not flee then everyone understood that ukraine needed help And only then did various countries begin to provide help in varying amounts. Russia issued an ultimatum at that moment, reducing the number of Ukrainian armed forces, recognizing the occupied territories of Ukraine as Russian territories. The country's leadership is pro-Russian, so that it is completely aligned with Putin's hierarchy.
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