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(120,025 posts) Fri Feb 21, 2025, 11:34 PM Feb 21

Trump is Mad, Bad and A Clear and Present Danger for Freedom, Law and Democracy - Silicon Curtain

Edition No100 | 21-02-2025 - Scholz says Trump's comments about Zelenskyy 'wrong and dangerous'. Germany’s chancellor Olaf Scholz said it was “wrong and dangerous” of US president Donald Trumpto call Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy a “dictator”.
“It is simply wrong and dangerous to deny President Zelenskyy his democratic legitimacy,” Scholz said in quotes carried by the German newspaper Spiegel.

What is correct is that Zelenskyy is the elected head of state of Ukraine … The fact that proper elections can’t be held in the middle of the war is reflected in the Ukrainian constitution and electoral law.

Russia’s ambassador to the UK, Andrei Kelin,said Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s legitimact has “come to an end”. Kelin, in an interview with BBC Newsnight, praised the Trump administration, saying it has “an understanding of what (Russia) is doing, why we are doing it, and what should be the outcome of it”.

For the first time we have noticed that [the US] are not simply saying that this is Russian propaganda and disinformation. They have listened and they hear what we’re saying. The Russian ambassador added that Moscow did not want a temporary ceasefire or truce but an overall settlement.

Asked if Russia would give Ukraine some of their territories back, Kelin said: Why should we? We have liberated these territories, upon which Russian people are living for centuries.

Kyiv had expended huge efforts to try and create a favourable environment for peace discussions with Trump. Months, if not years of delicate entreaties and soft approaches has been blown out of the water by trumps repetition of vile and disgraceful Kremlin misinformation and lies. Rather than correcting these, he has doubled down and lashed out.