Trump threatens Zelensky not to tolerate him for "long"

WashingtonThe actions had already preceded the words, although they had not made as much noise as the shouts of Donald Trump and his vice president, JD Vance, against the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, in the Oval Office. Since the Republican arrived at the White House, arms shipments to Ukraine have been slowing down to the point of being on the verge of freezing. The cooling of the shipment of packages was already prior to Trump's booing of Zelensky, which has become a point of no return on Washington's relations with Kiev and Europe, and now the American president seems to want to use it as a pretext to finish the job.

After a relatively silent weekend on the part of Trump, who on Friday went to Mar-a-Lago to play golf with the statement that Zelensky could return when he was "ready" to negotiate peace, this Monday morning he has resumed the escalation of tension. The US President posted a post on Truth Social where he threatened Zelensky that he will not tolerate him for "much longer." Trump shared a news story in which the Ukrainian claimed that the end of the war with Russia is "very far away."

"This is the worst statement Zelensky could have made, and the United States will not tolerate it for much longer! That's what I was saying, this man does not want peace as long as he has the support of the United States, and Europe, in the meeting they had with Zelensky, stated flatly that they cannot do the job without the United States." As he has done with many other issues affecting the country, Trump continues to twist reality with words to portray a conflict between two equal countries when in reality Russia was the one who started the war by invading the country in 2022. An invasion preceded by the occupation of Crimea in 2014.

the president wants to redraw the image of Zelensky as the one who makes it impossible to end the war and does not intend to change as long as he has the military support of the US. The demands that Trump makes of the Ukrainian - which basically seems like a surrender - have never been made to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin. On the contrary, negotiations had not started and Washington was already making concessions in favor of Moscow: it does not see it possible to recover the borders prior to the illegal annexation of Crimea, Ukraine cannot enter NATO and the country at war should hold elections.

Trump has raised the tone and made noise again as he is expected to meet with other members of the government on Monday to decide whether to cancel military aid in Ukraine. According to the New York Times, There is even the possibility of cancelling this aid that had already been approved by the previous administration of Joe Biden.