SOS Marco Rubio On Zelensky Posturing, Refusal of Ceasefire - video

"What I told him [Zelensky] was, you know, time is not on your side here. It's not on your side on the battlefield, it's not on your side politically, and it's definitely not on your side in terms of the patience of the American people, the American taxpayer. And I still, as you can see by subsequent interviews, don't think he's gotten that message, and what he did yesterday was a real disservice to his country," Waltz added.

Where did Zelensky go wrong? He assumed - because that was the only way he'd have a chance of winning the war at the peace talks - that Trump shared his commitment to hamstring the Russian Bear.

This was based on his mistaken belief that America was Ukraine's largest and most powerful ally, a conclusion he probably reached because Biden gave him around $350 billion in unrestricted military and economic aid...

[Trump has] always had a pragmatic view of Europe and Asia and has no interest in America under his command becoming embroiled in a land-war in Eurasia, let alone a nuclear land-war.

Trump's interest - and, arguably America's interest - is to end this war quickly, then to re-engage both Ukraine and Russia in reciprocal economic trade, where everybody wins. While he knows that Russia started this war, he's got no "skin in the game," no emotional need to make Russia pay more than it already has for "Vlad's Folly," that unwinnable land-war...

“What I told him [Zelensky] was, you know, time is not on your side here. It’s not on your side on the battlefield, it’s not on your side politically, and it’s definitely not on your side in terms of the patience of the American people, the American taxpayer. And I still, as you can see by subsequent interviews, don’t think he’s gotten that message, and what he did yesterday was a real disservice to his country,” Waltz added.

Where did Zelensky go wrong? He assumed – because that was the only way he’d have a chance of winning the war at the peace talks – that Trump shared his commitment to hamstring the Russian Bear.

This was based on his mistaken belief that America was Ukraine’s largest and most powerful ally, a conclusion he probably reached because Biden gave him around $350 billion in unrestricted military and economic aid...

[Trump has] always had a pragmatic view of Europe and Asia and has no interest in America under his command becoming embroiled in a land-war in Eurasia, let alone a nuclear land-war.

Trump’s interest – and, arguably America’s interest – is to end this war quickly, then to re-engage both Ukraine and Russia in reciprocal economic trade, where everybody wins. While he knows that Russia started this war, he’s got no “skin in the game,” no emotional need to make Russia pay more than it already has for “Vlad’s Folly,” that unwinnable land-war...

... What I felt most strongly was a soaring sense of gratification and gratitude: President Trump and Vice President Vance were saying the things that we’ve all been saying and thinking for at least two years now.

You are disrespecting the American people...

Senator Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.), a diehard Zelensky fanboy for decades, slouched out afterward affirming for reporters that he was proud of President Trump, and recommending that Zelensky should step down...

Here’s what really happened. Zelensky never intended to sign the deal. He’s been playing games for weeks...

But Trump has repeatedly said the U.S. will never provide security guarantees, and that Ukraine cannot join NATO...

Enter the Europeans. We can now see this week was a full-court press, a joint Ukraine-Europe operation to box Trump in so that he’d be forced to agree to a guarantee...

The endless grift, a Ukrainian house of cards, meticulously built on manufactured narratives, elite lobbying, and bottomless Western funding, collapsed in real time under the weight of now-apparent contradictions. Zelensky’s public tantrum didn’t just blow up bridges—it vaporized them. For nearly four years, if not longer, the Proxy War project has survived on a carefully cultivated illusion of Ukraine as a noble underdog bravely resisting an unprovoked invasion, an indispensable ally to democracy itself.

But yesterday, before the world’s gimlet eye, Zelensky shattered that illusion for all time with his own words...

One of the most striking things about yesterday’s Zelensky press conference was Lindsey Graham’s reaction to it. The two are old friends, but Graham disavowed him within the hour.

This was more than just transactional disloyalty. It was scapegoating. Lindsey Graham knows what’s coming.

Over the past three years, with the tacit support of its western patrons, the Ukrainian government has committed a remarkable number of serious crimes.

The Ukrainians sold huge quantities of American weapons on the international black market at twenty cents on the dollar.

These weapons are now in the hands of armed groups around the world, including Hamas, the Mexican drug cartels and the forces now controlling Syria.

God knows what the Ukrainians have done with the pathogens in American biolabs in their country. Even US intel agencies aren’t sure.

The Ukrainians have also murdered a number of people in various countries in political assassinations, and tried to murder others, including American journalists and a European head of state.

This is all true, and it’s all going to come out at some point. Better to start blaming it on Zelensky now.