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Zelensky lashes out at European leaders: ‘Will Trump even notice you?’
The Telegraph ^ | 21 January 2025 | Joe Barnes and James Crisp
Posted on 01/21/2025 8:50:07 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Volodymyr Zelensky has warned European leaders Donald Trump will ignore them if the continent doesn’t take better care of its own defences.
The Ukrainian president insisted the continent had to become more independent of Washington because there was no guarantee his American counterpart was committed to Nato.
“Will president Trump even notice Europe? Does he see Nato as necessary? And will he respect EU institutions?” Mr Zelensky asked in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
The wartime leader presented his scathing address as a wake-up call for European leaders, including in Britain and France, following Mr Trump’s inauguration on Monday.
Mr Zelensky argued that Europe had to do more to prove it could stand on its own feet and be a “strong global” player and “indispensable” on the world stage.
“Most of the world is now thinking: What is going to happen to our relationship with America, what will happen to alliances, to trade? How does President Trump want to end war?... But no one is asking these kind of questions about Europe,” he said.
“When we in Europe look at the US as our ally, it is clear they are an indispensable ally. In times of war, everyone worries will the US stay with them… But does anyone in the US worry that Europe might abandon them one day or might stop being their ally? The answer is no.”
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To: MinorityRepublican
US out of UN
US out of NATO
2 posted on 01/21/2025 8:51:42 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
To: MinorityRepublican
Z man is trying to shame people who have no shame.
3 posted on 01/21/2025 8:53:20 PM PST by rottweiller_inc (Lupus urbem intravit. Fulminis ictu vultures super turrem exanimati. )
To: MinorityRepublican
I read that as “Trump isn’t going to give me money anymore so I have to get it from you idiots. Now think of me as your first line of defense so that it’s in your own self-interest to make up the money I was getting from Biden.”
4 posted on 01/21/2025 8:53:51 PM PST by mairdie
To: MinorityRepublican
‘Will Trump even notice you?’
Only when he washes his hands of Ukraine and dumps the responsibility on the globalist clowns Starmer, Macron, and von der Leyen.
5 posted on 01/21/2025 8:54:17 PM PST by PGR88
To: MinorityRepublican
“When we in Europe look at the US as our ally, it is clear they are an indispensable ally. In times of war, everyone worries will the US stay with them… But does anyone in the US worry that Europe might abandon them one day or might stop being their ally? The answer is no.”
He's not wrong.
6 posted on 01/21/2025 8:54:39 PM PST by pepsi_junkie ("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
To: E. Pluribus Unum; telescope115
[US out of UN
US out of NATO]
Works for me.
NATO can fight "Global Warming" all by itself --- they could try launching Greta Thunberg towards the Sun....HOW DARE I!!!!
The Climate Doom Goblin
7 posted on 01/21/2025 8:54:49 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
To: MinorityRepublican
“Will president Trump even notice Europe? Does he see Nato as necessary? And will he respect EU institutions?” Mr Zelensky asked in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
No, no, and no.
The fact that Zelensky is giving this speech at the WEF in Davos tells you everything you need to know about the state of the US-Europe alliance.
And the EU will go bonkers when Trump announces his summit meeting with Putin shortly. They're actively trying to prevent it, but Trump doesn't care. He's going to do it anyway.
To: SaveFerris; kiryandil
Yeah, baby!
9 posted on 01/21/2025 9:01:41 PM PST by Allegra (Free our pardoned J6 hostages!)
To: Right_Wing_Madman
“The fact that Zelensky is giving this speech at the WEF in Davos tells you everything you need to know about the state of the US-Europe alliance.”
Says quite a bit about the Zeepers too.
10 posted on 01/21/2025 9:03:24 PM PST by BobL
To: BobL
11 posted on 01/21/2025 9:07:25 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same. )
To: Allegra
I met a very nice (mostly) Russian woman (from UKRAINE BTW) about a month-and-a-half ago. She is from Odessa, IIRC.
She just wants the war to stop (taking lives). I agreed with her.
12 posted on 01/21/2025 9:11:08 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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