Welcome to the 27th month of 2025...🧵 If you're reading this and are thinking that "Zelenskyy disrespected the Presidency", **** right off into the sun. You disrespected the entire nation in Nov 2016 and again in 2024./1I don't think that Zelenskyy precipitated this, but I think he was prepared for it. His intel people are close to Trump's Russian connections and understand them better than Western European or US agencies do./2Trump loathes Zelenskyy for one reason only: Z would not provide him with manufactured dirt on Biden. He got impeached and had to ask Senators to hold the line and refuse to confirm the impeachment. And then he ran against Biden and... lost./3He LOST. He was a LOSER. And no amount of triumph will heal that wound for a narcissist. The best you can do is destroy the person who did that to you, and in Trump's words, make them "beg like a dog."/4Z knew he would get nothing. The minerals deal was just the icing on the cake for Trump. The US had already handed Putin most of what he wanted. Trump was going to sell Ukr out and have Ukr pay for the privilege./5That deal has been blown up by Trump and Vance. Anyone who had lulled themselves into thinking that the more reasonable posture in the Macron and Starmer talks got a rude shock yesterday./6correction - "that the more reasonable posture in the Macron and Starmer talks represented reality"/6a

Welcome to the 27th month of 2025...🧵 If you're reading this and are thinking that "Zelenskyy disrespected the Presidency", **** right off into the sun. You disrespected the entire nation in Nov 2016 and again in 2024./1 ... I don't think that Zelenskyy precipitated this, but I think he was prepared for it. His intel people are close to Trump's Russian connections and understand them better than Western European or US agencies do./2 ... Trump loathes Zelenskyy for one reason only: Z would not provide him with manufactured dirt on Biden. He got impeached and had to ask Senators to hold the line and refuse to confirm the impeachment. And then he ran against Biden and... lost./3 ... He LOST. He was a LOSER. And no amount of triumph will heal that wound for a narcissist. The best you can do is destroy the person who did that to you, and in Trump's words, make them "beg like a dog."/4 ... Z knew he would get nothing. The minerals deal was just the icing on the cake for Trump. The US had already handed Putin most of what he wanted. Trump was going to sell Ukr out and have Ukr pay for the privilege./5 ... That deal has been blown up by Trump and Vance. Anyone who had lulled themselves into thinking that the more reasonable posture in the Macron and Starmer talks got a rude shock yesterday./6 ... correction - "that the more reasonable posture in the Macron and Starmer talks represented reality"/6a