How to lose friends and alienate sponsors: Zelensky is making enemies in America, by Alan Lolaev

That’s the way it is in America. One moment you’re the heroic toast of the town, the next moment nobody wants anything to do with you. From Alan Lolaev at swentr.site:

An attempt to ensure bipartisan support after the US presidential election produced inconclusive results for the Ukrainian leader

How to lose friends and alienate sponsors: Zelensky is making enemies in America

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky in USA, New York, 23 September 2024. ©  Global Look Press/Michael Kappeler

The US presidential election campaign is entering its final stretch ahead. The outcome is crucial to many of Washington’s foreign partners but particularly for the current government in Kiev.

At the end of September, Vladimir Zelensky made another visit to America. Officially coinciding with “UN Week” and a speech at the General Assembly, Zelensky’s six-day trip was primarily focused on one existential issue for his administration – securing continued financial and military support from Washington, regardless of the election results in November.

However, achieving this goal proved far more challenging than anticipated. Even Ukraine’s well-oiled PR machine, honed over a decade, struggled to navigate the increasingly polarized American political landscape without incurring damage.

Issues arose even before Zelensky touched down on US soil. In an article published in The New Yorker, he described Donald Trump’s running mate JD Vance as “too radical” for suggesting that US support for Ukraine should be reconsidered and that a peace deal might require territorial concessions to Russia. Vance, known for opposing aid to Kiev, has consistently argued for negotiating an end to the war, even if it involves ceding territory. In response to Zelensky’s comments, the former president’s son Donald Trump Jr criticized the Ukrainian leader for meddling in US domestic affairs, asserting that it is unacceptable for a foreign leader dependent on American taxpayers’ support to speak out against Republican candidates.

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One response to “How to lose friends and alienate sponsors: Zelensky is making enemies in America, by Alan Lolaev

  1. Clown World villains are so weak even Klaus has grown stale.

    GI cargo pants has his piano hand Kung-Fu grip on a shekel bucket every time he comes to FUSA.

    That’s why his negoiate/peace talk is surprising but we all know it is because the Really BIG show is about to kick off in the Middle East.

    They weren’t joking with that to the last Ukrainian were they.

    Big shekels in all the KIA for Straussian Neocon artist war pig slime.

    Breaking from Chase Moore:

    From Russia With Love

    [Shaken Not Stirred, she’ll have Straight Up With A Twist]

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