Once treated as untouchable, Zelensky is now exposed—his arrogance unchecked, his failures undeniable, and his usefulness to the West rapidly fading.
At long last, someone has said it. Trump has finally called it like it is—Zelensky is the emperor with no clothes.
In fact, he’s the dictator with no clothes, propped up by Western elites who refused to see what was in plain sight. But the illusion is shattered. Trump didn’t just call him a dictator, he shut him out of peace talks and made it clear that if Zelensky wants to be taken seriously, he needs to hold elections, abandon his defiant posturing, and start behaving like a statesman rather than a petulant client.
For years, wherever Zelensky went, Western elites and their media lapdogs treated him as untouchable—questioning him was practically a crime.
The adulation didn’t even begin in 2022 when full-scale war erupted. It started back in 2019, when Zelensky became the vehicle for Trump’s first impeachment, cast as the poor, beleaguered leader whom Trump had supposedly tried to extort.
It was all a lie, but that didn’t matter. The media and political class needed him propped up, so they did—shielding him from scrutiny no matter how absurd his behavior became.
The arrogance and defiance Zelensky has displayed didn’t emerge in a vacuum—it was merely the latest chapter in a pattern of reckless entitlement that defined Ukraine’s political class long before he took office.
To understand it, we have to go back to 2016, when Ukrainian officials blatantly interfered in the U.S. election, attacking Trump in a way that was not just unprecedented but completely beyond the norms of international relations.
It’s one thing for a foreign power to quietly prefer one candidate over another—but for a small, dependent country to openly wage political warfare against the leading contender in a U.S. presidential race was madness.
The arrogance and provocation that Zelensky displayed did not occur in a vacuum —it was merely the latest chapter in a pattern of reckless conceit that had characterized Ukraine’s political class long before he took office.
To understand it, we have to go back to 2016, when Ukrainian officials brazenly interfered in the U.S. election and attacked Trump in a way that was not only unprecedented but also completely outside the norms of international relations.
It is one thing for a foreign power to quietly favor one candidate over another, but for a small, dependent country to openly wage political war against the leading contender in an American presidential race was madness.
Their prime minister publicly condemned Trump, claiming that he was “challenging the values of the free world.” Ukraine’s interior minister went further, calling Trump a “dangerous maverick” who was “as dangerous to Ukraine as to the United States.”
Their ambassador to Washington published a scathing op -ed — something virtually unheard of in international diplomacy — and Ukrainian intelligence services leaked a falsified ledger to sabotage Trump’s campaign manager, Paul Manafort, in an operation that led directly to Manafort’s firing.
Even Ukraine’s equivalent of a CIA director, Valentin Nalyvaichenko, later all but admitted to the meddling, declaring, “Of course, they all recognize that our [anti-corruption agency] intervened in the presidential campaign.”
When Trump did win in 2016, he let it go. He had no intention of punishing Ukraine for backing the wrong horse. Instead, he sought peace—because, as the media and the establishment so often overlook, the war in Ukraine did not start in 2022 but in 2014, and it had long been Trump’s ambition to end it.
But his hands were tied by the Russia-collusion hoax, which effectively criminalized diplomacy with Moscow. Every time he tried to do something, he was met with loud, hysterical screams from the media, the establishment, and the Democrats.
When the Russian ambassador visited the White House, as is perfectly normal, the media went apoplectic, accusing Trump of treason.
When Trump met Putin in Helsinki in 2018, the hysteria reached outrageous proportions. Putin had given Trump a soccer ball from that year's World Cup for Trump's 12-year-old son, and the media claimed it might have been a listening device.
Trump was given no room to maneuver. Instead of pursuing peace, he was forced to arm Ukraine—a move even Obama had refused to take. Then came the impeachment hoax, with Zelensky at its center, which made matters infinitely worse.
Any attempt at serious negotiations—any engagement with Russia, any acknowledgement that peace requires concessions—would be seized upon as evidence that Trump was a traitor. The idea of compromise was seen as “betraying” Ukraine, the same false charge that was leveled against Trump in the first place.
Wounded by the impeachment hoax, Trump was hobbled, and then Biden came along. With him, Zelensky got everything he wanted — billions in weapons and reckless escalations that led directly to war.
For years we were told that joining NATO had nothing to do with the outbreak of the broader war in 2022, but now even the NATO chief admits that NATO expansion was key to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
In fact, Biden and his team of inept and corrupt comrades all but promised Ukraine NATO membership in the run-up to the 2022 war. Biden pitched NATO membership to Ukraine in December 2021, as did his Secretary of State, Antony Blinken.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin went even further, saying that the door to NATO membership was open to Ukraine during a trip to Ukraine in October 2021. And let’s not forget that Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, was a key architect of the Russia conspiracy hoax that Trump directly blocked from doing anything during his first term.
But even as Biden and his team recklessly escalated tensions, Zelensky remained oblivious to the risks, convinced that the West’s blank check would never be repaid . When the war exploded into a full-scale conflict in 2022, the US poured hundreds of billions into Ukraine, fueling the fight with no clear strategy or exit plan.
Zelensky had only one job: prevent the war or, failing that, end it as quickly as possible. Instead, he sold out his country to Western cold warriors who saw Ukraine as a pawn, to proxy warmongers determined to prolong the fighting, and to domestic swindlers who greedily exploited American donations.
When a real chance for peace arose early in the war, he didn’t seize it. He threw it away on the orders of Boris Johnson and Joe Biden, dragging Ukraine even deeper into a war that should never have happened.
As former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder—one of the last old-guard Western leaders—later revealed, he had brokered the April 2022 Istanbul peace talks. Ukraine and Russia had largely reached an agreement—until Johnson and Biden stepped in and told Zelensky to walk away.
He obeyed, choosing war over peace on the orders of those with their own agendas—agendas that had nothing to do with the lives or deaths of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians.
But even as public support waned and the global political landscape shifted, Zelensky refused to adapt — confident that the money, weapons and political support would never stop flowing.
In September 2024, Zelensky came to the United States and campaigned in Pennsylvania for Kamala Harris, completely unaware of the possibility that she might lose. While in the United States, he also gave an interview to The New Yorker, in which he made clear his feelings about Trump and J.D. Vance.
He dismissed Trump outright, claiming, “ I feel like Trump doesn’t really know how to stop the war, even though he might think he does .” He was similarly condescending about Vance, calling him “too radical” and adding, “I don’t take Vance’s words seriously.”
He even suggested that Vance should be raised by Jewish Americans, claiming that they were “a strong power base in the United States.”
These are hardly the words of a leader capable of negotiating peace, adapting to changing political winds, or showing even a trace of gratitude to the American taxpayers who funded his war. Instead of adapting, Zelensky doubled down on his arrogance, blind to the fact that the people he mocked might soon be calling the shots.
Despite his endless missteps, poor political judgment and habit of backing the wrong horse, Zelensky continued to be given last chances.
Shortly after Trump’s inauguration, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent visited Kiev to discuss financial matters. Zelensky’s response was even more arrogance: he refused to agree to a deal to at least partially reimburse America’s colossal spending on Ukraine.
And let’s not forget: American taxpayers didn’t just fund the war effort. They paid for 90% of Ukraine’s media, paid Ukrainian pensions, and subsidized its civil service. It wasn’t just about weapons, it was about propping up an entire state.
Zelensky got another chance to reset when he met Vance in Munich last week. He failed again. No humility, no recalibration — just the same tired routine.
Munich was likely the moment when Trump and Vance concluded that as long as Zelensky remained in power, a peace deal was impossible. And how did he respond? By lashing out.
Within a day of Munich, he was claiming that Trump was “living in a disinformation space,” further cementing his own irrelevance.
For years, Zelensky behaved like a child spoiled by feeble-minded caregivers . Under Biden, no demand was too outrageous, no tantrum too excessive. When Trump arrived, he never adjusted or adapted. And now the pampering is over. The adults are back.
Trump made that abundantly clear yesterday in a Truth Social post , calling Zelensky what he is: a dictator. The media, Democrats, and European elites are hysterical—but the truth is finally out.
What was once unspeakable has now been said. For years, Zelensky has wrapped himself in the language of democracy as he gagged opposition parties, silenced independent media, and, worst of all, outright canceled elections.
That’s not democracy, that’s dictatorship. The charade is over . And unless Zelensky undergoes a complete and immediate transformation, the war will end without him. Either way, the end is near. The show is over.
Comentários