VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: 10 bad takeaways from the Zelenskyy blow-up

Extraordinary Meeting an oval Office on Friday between President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy They came down from the rails, leaving hopes in a peace agreement with the American through Russia and Ukraine. Here are some reasons why Things went wrongand where it leaves efforts to end the war.

1. Zelenskyy does not understand – or deliberately ignores – bitter truth: those with which the most affinity feels with (Western globalists, American left, Europeans) have a little strength of 2025 to help him. And those who obviously dislike or seek to embarrass (as with his Scranton, Penn. A visit similar to the campaign Alone in September 2024) she had the power to save him. Because of itself, I hope that Obama-Clinton-Biden Band would not face Trump, since their interests are not really Ukraine as they are committed.

2. Zelenskyy acts as if his agenda and ours are identical. So, he continues to insist that he fights for us despite our distance from the two oceans with whom he mocks. We have a lot of common interests with Ukraine, but not everything in any way: Trump wants to “reset” with Russia and trocute it against China. Seeks to avoid a 1962 Defcon crisis compared to the Proxy calculation near the nuclear rival. And he honestly wants to end the stallion of Stalingrad’s slaughterhouse for all.

Trump and Zelensky have been involved in an oval office that shouted the match on Friday (Fox News)

3. Europeans (and Canada) are now talking loudly about the new muscular antithesis, regardless of promises in the US, promises-which were supposed to demand that Europeans are of social welfare, Frack, use nuclear obsession and consume 3-5% of their GDP on defense. Now they are not only paid by 16% of NATO budget, but agrees with asymmetrical tariffs that result in a trade surplus of the European Union of $ 160 billion, a world police officer, patrolling the terrorists of seafood and distracting terrorists and rogue countries that could otherwise interrupt European networks, as well as in Europe.

4. Zelenskyy must know that all former burglaries are the distraction of peace. Ukraine is now better armed than most NATO nations, but it will not be in NATO, and no president has or will supply Ukraine armed, which will return Donbass and Crimea. So, the only two questions are a) how much will Putin be willing to retreat to his borders 2022 IB) How will he turn away? The commercial sector/Tripwire sector, the common Ukrainian-US-European development of the corridor resource in the eastern Ukraine, responded to the DMZ similar to Korea; Another with the fact that Putin, unlike his invasions in 2008 and 2014, has now created a million dead and wounded in Ukraine that will remain so armed.

5. What are they Green alternatives Without a lot of help – to take the return of Democrats to the White House in four years? Hope for the rear Europe? Pray for a democratic house and the third Vindman’s engineered Trump imperative? Or swallow your pride, return to the White House, sign a rare country agreement, invite to euros (are they seriously willing to patrol the DMZ?), And hope that Trump will warn Putin, as he did successfully between 2017-21, without daring to try again?

Russian President Vladimir Putin chaired the meeting on the Discolus 2024 of the Federal Budget and the Planning period 2025 and 2026, through a video connection in Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, September 18, 2023. (Sputnik/Mihail Metzel/Pool)

6. If there is a forced fire, a commercial contract, the presence of the euro and the influx of Western companies in Ukraine, would there be a choice? And if so, would Zelenskyy and his party win? And if not, would there be a heir to a transparent government that would reveal exactly where all the Western money for financial assistance went?

7. Zelenskyy could see the model in Netanyahu. The management of Biden was far more difficult than Trump on Ukraine, suspended the shipment of weapons, demanded a ceasefire, penetrating the war, two-sided cabinet, hitting Israel because of the collateral damage-the Westerners from whom they asked Zelenskyy. Still, Netanyahu managed the hostile President Biden, held Israel near his patron saint, and when he visited, he was merciful to his host. Netanyahu certainly would never be interrupted and transferred to the host and president of the patron saint in the White House before the global media.

8. If Ukraine has alienated the US, then what is his strategic victory plan? Wait more euros? To withstand more and more empowered Russian army? Publish more territories? So what exactly is Zelensky’s ticket, do they think they are won by the hand?

9. If he watches all the 50-minute ribbon carefully, most went pretty good-all-all-up until Zelenskyy started correcting Vance first and Trump second. Ukraine overturned to his hosts and his gestures, tone and interruptions, he made it clear that he assumed that Trump was only more of the same compatible, without any Biden Waxen Effigy money bags. And that was naive for such a supposedly secular leader.

10. March 2025 was not March 2022, after the heroic savings of Kiev – but three years and 1.5 million dead and wounded later. Zelenskyy is no longer an international heart with a glamorous accompaniment. He postponed the election, banned opposition media and the party, suspended Habeas Corpus and came out of negotiations when he had an even hand in the spring of 2022, and obviously even now that he did not do so in the spring of 2025.

Where are you going, Volodymyr?