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February 21, 2025

Trump Cuts Off Zelensky Allowance As Vance Slams “Moralistic Garbage” Supporting Ukraine

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

A thought-provoking new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev exclaimed after President Donald Trump slammed Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky for being an unelected dictator: “A dictator without elections, Zelensky better move fast or he is not going to have a country left...If you'd told me just three months ago that these were the words of the US president, I would have laughed out loud...Donald Trump is 200% right”, says Secretary of State Marco Rubio then revealed: “President Trump is very upset at President Zelensky – and rightfully so” and National Security Advisor Mike Waltz declared: “President Trump is obviously very frustrated right now with President Zelensky”—all of which was just joined with the news:”The United States is opposing calling Russia the aggressor in the war with Ukraine in a Group of 7 statement being drafted to mark the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion”.

Earlier today, this report notes, the Wall Street Journal revealed: “The Trump administration is stepping up its push for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to hand mineral rights worth hundreds of billions of dollars to the U.S., after Zelensky’s initial rejection of the demand fueled President Trump’s escalating broadsides against Ukraine’s leader”—and was a revelation followed by Ukrainian parliament member Artyom Dmitruk warning: “It is an issue on which Zelensky has once again fooled the whole world, and, more specifically, Donald Trump and his team...First, all of these resources, the rare-earth minerals, are currently located on the territories with active combat...Second, no one can say what the price of extracting these resources will be...If these precious resources could have been mined so easily and on such a large scale as Zelensky promised, and if it would have been profitable, the companies in Ukraine would have started doing it long ago...It is yet another lie, another farce that Zelensky attempts to exploit”.

Last week, this report continues, Dictator Zelensky warned: “Ukraine has a very low chance of survival without U.S. weapons”—a warning joined by Ukrainian journalist Natalia Moseychuk revealing today: “According to my information, the weapons that were going up for sale have stopped...Those companies that were ready to transfer these weapons are now waiting because there is no decision from Washington”—Ukrainian parliament member Aleksey Goncharenko also revealed: “The US has frozen arms sales to Ukraine...American companies confirmed this to me”—United States House Speaker Mike Johnson declared yesterday: “There is no appetite for another assistance bill for Ukraine...We have to bring the war to an end...And I can tell you that our European allies understand the necessity as well...It's dragged on too long”—all of which follows Donald Trump Jr. warning Dictator Zelensky shortly after his father President Trump was elected last November: “You’re 38 Days from losing your allowance”.

Also earlier today, this report details, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced that Russian military forces eliminated over 925 Ukrainian soldiers during the past 24 hours and revealed: “In all, the following Ukrainian targets have been destroyed since the beginning of the special military operation: 655 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 44,007 unmanned aerial vehicles, 594 surface-to-air missile systems, 21,534 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,518 multiple rocket launchers, 21,883 field artillery guns and mortars and 31,846 special military motor vehicles”—and was a revelation joined with the news that Ukrainian military intelligence chief General Kyrylo Budanov grimly warned: “If there are no serious negotiations before the summer, then very dangerous processes for the very existence of Ukraine may be launched”.

While “the very existence” of Ukraine hangs in the balance as hundreds-of-billions-of-dollars worth of destroyed Western weapons litter its battlefields, this report concludes, neocon British historian Niall Ferguson attacked and branded President Trump as an appeaser for trying to end the conflict—and was an attack Vice President J.D. Vance immediately slammed:

This is moralistic garbage, which is unfortunately the rhetorical currency of the globalists because they have nothing else to say.

For three years, President Trump and I have made two simple arguments: first, the war wouldn't have started if President Trump was in office; second, that neither Europe, nor the Biden administration, nor the Ukrainians had any pathway to victory. This was true three years ago, it was true two years ago, it was true last year, and it is true today.

And for three years, the concerns of people who were obviously right were ignored.

What is Niall's actual plan for Ukraine? Another aid package? Is he aware of the reality on the ground, of the numerical advantage of the Russians, of the depleted stock of the Europeans or their even more depleted industrial base?

Instead, he quotes from a book about George HW Bush from a different historical period and a different conflict. That's another currency of these people: reliance on irrelevant history.

President Trump is dealing with reality, which means dealing with facts. And here are some facts:

Number one, while our Western European allies' security has benefitted greatly from the generosity of the United States, they pursue domestic policies (on migration and censorship) that offend the sensibilities of most Americans and defense policies that assume continued over-reliance.

Number two, Russians have a massive numerical advantage in manpower and weapons in Ukraine, and that advantage will persist regardless of further Western aid packages.

Number three, the United States retains substantial leverage over both parties to the conflict.

Number four, ending the conflict requires talking to the people involved in starting it and maintaining it.

Number five, the conflict has placed--and continues to place--stress on tools of American statecraft, from military stockpiles to sanctions (and so much else). We believe the continued conflict is bad for Russia, bad for Ukraine, and bad for Europe. But most importantly, it is bad for the United States.

Given the above facts, we must pursue peace, and we must pursue it now. President Trump ran on this, he won on this, and he is right about this. It is lazy, ahistorical nonsense to attack as "appeasement" every acknowledgment that America's interest must account for the realities of the conflict.

That interest--not moralisms or historical illiteracy--will guide President Trump's policy in the weeks to come.

And thank God for that.

[Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]

JD Vance's harsh warning to Zelenskyy for 'badmouthing' Trump
https://youtu.be/YqVCsn4WqJg

US envoy Kellogg cancels press briefing after breakdown of talks in Kyiv
https://youtu.be/eeuFuUxORys

War in Ukraine: Zelensky feels 'he's being misunderstood by Trump'
https://youtu.be/HkWxVqlZqgE

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