Democratic lawmakers rushed to defend Volodymyr Zelenskyy after the Ukrainian leader was publicly berated by Donald Trump in a disastrous Oval Office meeting.

The US president accused Zelenskyy of “gambling with world war three” while his vice-president, JD Vance, called the Ukrainian leader “disrespectful”, before cutting short talks aimed at kicking off the process of ending Kyiv’s three-year war with Russia.

Zelenskyy abruptly left the White House soon after without signing a rare critical minerals deal with the US that Trump has said is the first step toward a ceasefire agreement that he is seeking to broker between Russia and Ukraine.

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    That’s why Russia rolled for Kyiv?
    Because they wanted to somehow protect the people in Eastern Ukraine, while they now bombard them non stop?

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      Protecting the people in eastern Ukraine was a justification they used, which they wouldn’t have been able to use if the right-wing government the US propped up in kyiv hadn’t passed discriminatory laws and failed to stop azov and friends from shelling them.

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        This has been debunked. The Donbas “rebellion” would have fizzled out without military support from the Kremlin (Igor Girkin himself admitted to this), Boris Nemtsov was assassinated for publishing a report on putin’s proxy war in the Donbas. But after an surprise invasion and 3 years of debating with people like you, if you can’t get the facts right, there is no point in debating anymore.

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          Man they are in force today. Reminds me of all the anti Biden Gaza bots. I am sure they are happy about Trump’s casino going up soon. So much better than arranging a cease fire.