Una giornata di infamia americana – “Zelensky venne a Washington si preparò a firmare tutto ciò che poteva offrire a Trump tranne la libertà, la sicurezza e il buon senso della sua nazione. … Fu ricompensato con una lezione sulle maniere del più mendace ospite vulgariano e non grazioso mai abituato alla Casa Bianca.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/opinion/a-day-of-american-infamy.html
di MeltSolaris
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Hopefully it was the last time Zelensky needed to set foot in America.
We need to pick this up and fix it, and we need to do it quick. America is de facto our enemy now.
I’m glad to see so many news outlets even in America denouncing Trump. They are still on the side of democracy and freedom, and that still matters. Even if they have an evil president.
Worst (ex-) ally ever 🖕🏻🇺🇸
It is time to rely on ourselves to preserve our values and freedom. Unity 🇪🇺
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>> there doesn’t seem to be anything here
Who is the quote from?
1. From now on, if Ukraine needs any weapons or ammunition, it can inform the EU, which will purchase these weapons and ammunition in Europe, the US, or other countries, and then transfer them to Ukraine as aid or through long-term loans to be paid in the future.
2. America should no longer be in any position to negotiate for Ukraine, as it is clearly biased towards Russia and Putin. If Putin wants a ceasefire, he should negotiate with and present his terms to the EU, which will then ask Ukraine for its opinions. This is the fair and just way to deal with the current situation, rather than being manipulated by Russia’s one-sided narrative.
Interesting how former American presidents have been very quiet.
My take on this is that the deal didn’t get through behind closed doors because trump’s terms for peace were probably ridiculous so they decided to blow it up in public because they have fragile ego’s.
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>> there doesn’t seem to be anything here
In Russian “Manda” = c@nt. Mendacious is spelled wrong 👿
Our Russian JV team regime is an utter embarrassment. I have no words for anyone who voted this shit back into office
Zelensky demonstrates to Republicans what ‘having a spine’ means.
Exactly, Zelenskyy didn’t want to sign away Ukraines freedom and security. So the mineral deal was a collaboration with America. But without security guarantees Putin wouldn’t have cared about that deal, and he wouldn’t have allowed American companies to extract those minerals. Which would have shown to the whole world, and Trump in particular, that Putin in fact cannot not be trusted and that Trump has zero control over Putins doing. I think Trump realised that, and needed to back away from the deal. Of course, he cannot back away from a deal he brokered himself, so he needed Zelenskyy to back away from the deal. Mission accomplished I guess.
But this just my own little conspiracy theory.
Trump really is a vile disgusting person. I hope America gets it’s act together and stops him and his billionaire buddies before they irreversibly destroy any resemblance of the America we once knew.
It was sickening to witness.
That’s reality. America becoming Russia N2.
Starring:
Trump as Elcin.
Mask as putin.
Not related to the topic, but the chair and the bust kind of look like a serious skeleton just sitting there.
The NYT, along with most American media, played a significant role in sane washing the vulgarian.
Buyer’s remorse?
Europe has to unite, I wish the EU would offer Visas to American citizens that want to leave , under the Trump regime, “A welcome home card” for any taxpayer. Craftspeople, entrepreneurs ,artists, students etc, bleed the US where it hurts, drain the brains , leave the swamp to fester.
Fun fact: trump is still in his second month, he got 3 years and 10 months left to make it even worse.
Thank you American Tax Payer for sending over 100 BILLION Dollars to support Ukraine in spite of your massive budget deficits, to help fight a war on another continent that started because we kept funding Russia with oil and gas purchases… in SPITE OF THEIR ACTIVE AGRESSION IN UKRAINE
Nailed it!
An opinion i can agree on.
I hope he doesn’t sign it, EU steps in and makes a deal. Ukrainian resources are for Ukrainian people, and for EU if they become part of it. This war should be stopped asap in best interest of ukraine and europe. Don’t let them bully and fool you.
tRump is disgusting!
As an American, I have never been more embarrassed for my country. Everything that happens to us is our fault and we deserve it
This administration has managed to do what no other administration has ever done before! Unite the Canadians, unite European countries and trigger the stimulation of the European domestic defense industry, lose, if not all, then most of the soft power that the US has built up for a very long time, fire key people only to have them recruited by China and Russia, ally with Russia and betray the EU, torpedo trade agreements with its closest allies and traditional partners, etc…. And now this! I mean, it doesn’t look good for the US and Americans. They will have to work very, very hard to regain the lost trust of their allies and partners, which could might as well be permanently damaged. Oh well… that’s just sad!
Excerpts:
>In August 1941, about four months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Franklin Roosevelt met with Winston Churchill aboard warships in Newfoundland’s Placentia Bay and agreed to the Atlantic Charter, a joint declaration by the world’s leading democratic powers on “common principles” for a postwar world.
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>Among its key points: “no aggrandizement, territorial or other”; “sovereign rights and self-government restored to those who have been forcibly deprived of them”; “freedom from fear and want”; freedom of the seas; “access, on equal terms, to the trade and to the raw materials of the world which are needed for their economic prosperity.”
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>The charter, and the alliance that came of it, is a high point of American statesmanship. On Friday in the Oval Office, the world witnessed the opposite. Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s embattled democratic leader, came to Washington prepared to sign away anything he could offer President Trump except his nation’s freedom, security and common sense. For that, he was rewarded with a lecture on manners from the most mendacious vulgarian and ungracious host ever to inhabit the White House.
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>If Roosevelt had told Churchill to sue for peace on any terms with Adolf Hitler and to fork over Britain’s coal reserves to the United States in exchange for no American security guarantees, it might have approximated what Trump did to Zelensky. Whatever one might say about how Zelensky played his cards poorly — either by failing to behave with the degree of all-fours sycophancy that Trump demands or to maintain his composure in the face of JD Vance’s disingenuous provocations — this was a day of American infamy.
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>Where do we go from here?
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>If there’s one silver lining to this fiasco, it’s that Zelensky did not sign the agreement on Ukrainian minerals that was forced on him this month by Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary who’s the Tom Hagen character in this protection-racket administration. The United States is entitled to some kind of reward for helping Ukraine defend itself — and Ukraine’s destruction of much of Russia’s military might should top the list, followed by the innovation Ukraine demonstrated in pioneering revolutionary forms of low-cost drone warfare, which the Pentagon will be keen to emulate.
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>Still, there’s no getting around the fact that Friday was a dreadful day — dreadful for Ukraine, for the free world, for the legacy of an America that once stood for the principles of the Atlantic Charter.
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>Roosevelt and Reagan must be spinning in their graves, as are Churchill and Thatcher. It’s up to the rest of us to reclaim America’s honor from the gangsters who besmirched it in the White House.
Thank you, Bret Stephens
If only Europe wasnt such a let-down on defense.
Just now Germany doesnt have a government. I would love to listen in on the negotiations between Merz and SPD on the issue. A lot will depend on who will lead the SPD. Either Pistorius or the peaceniks. I am not very optimistic for a real change, depsite the rethoric.
Paywall
I agree.
I am Australian, and our govt has already announced after this childish primary school bullying from complete cowards that it will stand with Ukraine and the EU no matter what, WITHOUT asking for any returns, like every other decent government.
I am mortified by the That deranged Putin cock puppet Trump and Vance and all the blitheringly vile, cowardly and despicable republicans. They have such shame and disgrace on a nation that, whilst troubled like all, attempted to lead the world and help those that needed it.
I cannot bear to hear any more from the great rotten pumpkin and the lives he has just cost.
We stand with Ukraine. We stand with the EU. And 8 fervently wish there was more I could do.
The world now needs to stop as many US purchases as possible. To trade among the EU and rest of the world. To unite a front in Europe in a scope that will make any invaders think twice. Accept any asker’s into the EU and defend Ukraine with everything they have.
We all know, Ukraine is just the first. It will never stop. We all cry for the horrors committed and doubly so for this, the latest betrayal from the greatest piece of shit to ever get near US politics: The rotten core of the Republicans and their cowardly supporters!
1000s of upvotes, no comments. I was not aware so many of r/Europe have NYT subscriptions.
Perhaps a summary of the article or an archive link?
i can’t see the comments of this post
It used to be leader of the free world.
Now it’s asshole of the free world.
And if history is any guidance, Murica will first have to burn to the ground to overcome its fascist fever and start healing.
It’s the way a president should have treated Putin.