Volodymyr Zelenskyy achieved his most important goal at the 28 February 2025 Oval Office meeting: He demonstrated to anyone who maintained doubts that Trump is, indeed, a servant of Putin.
At that Friday meeting, Zelenskyy effectively rallied all the major forces in Europe to his side and has drawn the world of democratic states into firmer commitments to Ukraine. He insistently framed the conflict in the only terms it can be framed: right versus wrong, good versus evil. The only question that remains is how quickly the world of constitutional democracies can reconfigure a security assistance package to compensate not just the absence but the overt hostility of the Trump regime to Ukraine. It appears that Europe is moving swiftly.
It may never be known for certain whether what happened at the Oval Office meeting was deliberate or not, but a good case can be made that both Zelenskyy and Trump accomplished what they wanted. Zelenskyy rallied the global forces of democracy, drove a deeper wedge into the US political divide, and forced invertebrate Republicans to slither around on slippery soil. Trump by contrast reassured his principal sponsors: Putin and the global kleptocracy responsible for starting the war and destroying the planet. Trump’s bullying of Zelenskyy surely aroused support from the array of global dictators and war criminals with whom the USA now finds itself aligned: Xi, Orban, Kim Jung Un, Netanyahu, Lukashenko, Mohammed Bin Salman, and others of that ilk. There is no longer any grey, Zelenskyy has successfully presented us with a world of stark black and white choices.
Because of Zelenskyy’s success, any rehash of the failed negotiations of the Ukrainian ceasefire agreement that occurs in the next few weeks will be much more favorable to Ukraine than the ones Kyiv recently rejected. The global reaction of liberal and conservative democracies to the Oval Office fiasco has been swift and unequivocally opposed to Trump. As a sign that the world of democracies is moving away from the US, Europe is now engaged in creating terms of a ceasefire in Ukraine that will operate outside the explicit purview of the US.
Canada, with the largest Ukrainian community outside of Ukraine itself, is moving rapidly in the direction of Europe and away from the US. The Trump friendly Conservative Party in Canada (CPC) is in something of an electoral freefall that may undermine its ability to achieve a majority in this year’s federal elections. Trudeau’s liberal party, which will be under new leadership, has made unimaginable gains due exclusively to recent statements and behaviors of the buffoon in the Oval Office. The CPC will now have to distance itself from Trump if it wants to retain their hope of electoral success. Expect Trump to moderate his positions on Ukraine and Canadian tariffs in the days to come so that the CPC does not lose its chance to rule.
Inside the US, Trump’s appalling treatment of Zelenskyy has only added to the public’s anger in response to DOGE’s unconstitutional dismantling of government services. The combination of domestic and foreign disaster after a month of the second Trump administration will force the President to publicly take a few steps away from Putin. Trump will continue to do nothing, however, without the express or tacit approval of Putin.
Trump is not the first Putin stooge with whom Zelenskyy has had to deal, but he may be the dumbest. This is why it is not difficult to imagine that the Oval Office meeting played out pretty much as Zelenskyy had anticipated. Ukrainians have had to deal with frauds like Trump for generations. While Putin’s real stooges have operated in Ukraine for decades, fictional versions of them are well represented in Zelenskyy’s brilliant series, Servant of the People.
The third and very brief final season of the series came to an end when the actor playing the fictional Ukrainian President Vasily Petrovych Goloborodko became the actual president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The first episode of the final season provides powerful insight into the character of both the man who became the President and the people who put him there.
A quote by Aristotle at the beginning of this first episode provides one of the central conceptual pillars of the entire series. “Those who buy power with cash,” Aristotle wrote, “are used to making profit out of this acquisition.” The power of money and the use of purchased power to accrue more money is the essence of the oligarchy that has tormented Ukraine and that now defines the Republican Party in the USA. Zelenskyy knows the character and vulnerabilities of such people well.
One of the more interesting oligarchs in the series who variously played the role of a nemesis and ally of Goloborodko posed a telling question directly relevant to the incident in the Oval Office. The fictional Oligarch Chuiko asked, “Which is worse, a terrible end or endless terror?” He was hoping to get Goloborodko to skirt this dilemma by compromising his principles. This is the same dilemma posed to him by Trump, who demanded that Zelenskyy and Ukraine either accept the terms of the peace deal he was proposing or return home without any further support from the US. Trump thereby signaled that without submitting to his proposed settlement, Ukraine would be faced with either “a terrible end or endless terror.”
Zelenskyy understood Trump’s lie well; he had seen it many times before. Trump was not offering peace; he was offering a ceasefire that Putin could never be trusted to keep and that would forever undermine the moral values and ideals that Ukraine represents in this conflict. Such values and ideals are incomprehensible to the narcissistic and nihilistic mind of the US president and the zombie party that undergirds him.
Goloborodko makes a similarly insightful response to the corrupting proposal of one of Putin’s fictional oligarchs in the TV series. This oligarch had a written guarantee of release from prison in exchange for Goloborodko confessing to a crime he did not commit.
Goloborodko denied the oligarch the power he felt he had to control the mind, soul, and body of a brave citizen. Goloborodko’s response: “So, you think you’ll lock me up? No. I’ll just get locked up away from you, from your so-called freedom, and from your so-called laws under which criminals put decent men in jail, and not the other way around. . . . At least there are laws here in prison. They may be harsh, but at least they work.” This is not just a statement for the fictional Ukraine depicted in the series. It is also a statement relevant to the fictional freedom we have in the US, where our oligarchs increasingly claim control over our minds, our souls, our bodies, and our pocketbooks. Prisons are not just about being locked in a cell. Some of the freest people in the world live in a prison.
Donald Trump does not know how to deal with people of courage, character, honesty, compassion, and decency. He thinks everyone has a price, for everything. He sits atop a political party who does not understand or appreciate the ideals of people like Zelenskyy, who have been inspired by the best of what the US used to offer to the world.
Zelenskyy’s appeal to those who seek truth and justice goes far beyond the plea for security aid to Ukraine; it is an appeal to embrace the values that define true freedom. There is no harsher prison than the minds of those who embrace the lies and promises of a cult leader posing as a politician. There is no greater freedom than knowing who you are and that the values you represent are transcendent and eternal. Thank you, President Zelenskyy, for showing us what a leader looks like.
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— Anonymous (@YourAnonCentral) March 1, 2025
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— Joe G (@EastEndJoe) March 3, 2025
Do you really think that Zelensky got a victory here? From all accounts, the European countries are unable to produce enough weapons and the voters are turning away from Ukraine. I suspect that ‘trump and Vance planned this.
“I suspect that ‘trump and Vance planned this.”
Gee, ya think? It was a planned ambush.
It was neither a victory nor a loss because anything he did was going to come with a gigantic cost. Sometimes one has no good available option.
This is particularly the case where a traitor allied with a foreign dictator demands not only complete obeisance, but the absence of “thought crime” against him as well.
This at least allies Ukraine with Europe, which is the best Zelensky can arrange right now. They may offer only a little security, but Trump was promising none.
I’m assuming myovich doesn’t think the U.S. is an Israeli puppet or Turkish puppet.
I believe that Zelensky came to the conclusion at some point that he was basically surrendering and selling his people by agreeing to this agreement. This is why he showed up in his outfit and reminding the world that they are at war.
Trump possibly knew that they would not be able to have him “surrender”, and thus ambush him. One thing that really put it into perspective was that guy calling him out about his outfit. Totally unnecessary and gave Zelensky the upper hand. And Vance only made them look more juvenile.
1. First time VZ lost his temper was when Trump once again jeered, “You have no cards.” “I’M NOT PLAYING CARDS,” he started to protest, and the two assholes wouldn’t let him get a word in.
2. It wasn’t very smart of VZ, if he really did expect a positive outcome, to start laying into Putin in front of Trump. The Europeans know better than that. Criticizing his soulmate really hurts Trump’s wittle feewings!
3. This seems to be Vance’s function, to stand to the side and start up shit. I’m not a Star Wars guy but my sons are, and Vance is reminiscent of Salacious Crumb, to Trump’s Jabba the Hut.
He was playing to a larger audience, once he realized that he was part of a televised torture session and would not get any security guarantees.
He did the best that he could. Sometimes there’s no “winning,” there’s just surviving with dignity intact.
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The asshole “reporter” who asked him about his wardrobe is the boyfriend of that hideous Margorie Taylor Green creature. So that makes sense.
First, in response to my friend Sam Goodfellow in Missouri. I was greatly heartened by the univocal support for Ukraine expressed by all European states excluding Hungary. The new chancellor of Germany made it clear that Germany is willing to do much more to help Ukraine than before. Trump’s behavior on Friday unified Europe in a way that may have accelerated a more independent and unified vision for Europe than anything we have seen before. It may be too little too late, but it would also be a great mistake to overlook the weakness of Russia.
The other telling angry response of VZ was when he told Trump that he was repeating Russian propaganda when he claimed that Ukraine could not survive without US support. Let’s not forget that in 2022, Trump called Putin’s invasion “brilliant.”
Last week’s UN vote condemning Russia for invading Ukraine told a number of stories about the complexity of foreign policy during wartime. Since Turkey and Ukraine share a common concern about Russian expanding influence in the Black Sea, Turkey voted to condemn Russia. Armenia did not condemn Russia, probably for a host of complex reasons that run counter to the clear principles at stake. Wars tend to make for strange bedfellows. I was pleasantly surprised to see all the Balkan groups (Croats, Montenegrins, Bosnians, and even Serbs) vote to condemn Russia. This is more evidence in support a strong, united European response.
While Armenia abstained from voting to condemn Russia, Israel voted in opposition to the condemnation. That is despicable.
As is Mr. Neshanian’s very dismissal of Ukrainian identity. It is hard to tell what is worse, the ignorance or the malice. Genocide begins with the denial of a people’s identity. Every Armenian should know that!
True. But knowing something and owning up to it are analytically distinct…
For the record, the Artsakh tragedy was sponsored by Azerbaijan colluding with Turkey and Israel. Russia played the role of mediator. Armenia is somewhat dependent on Russia, that is why they didn’t condemn Russia last week.
You are confused Myovich. Turkey, Israel and the US sponsored Azerbaijan’s invasion and cleansing of Artsakh. Yeah the US funded a Russian ally who invaded the ancestral homes of ethnic Christian Armenians.
And this frozen conflict was originally mediated by France, Russia and the US. So the us was taking sides when it was supposed to be neutral.
Like i said Azerbaijan should be worried about what is playing out in Ukraine.
Ukraine is somewhat dependent on Turkey and Azerbaijan, that’s why they don’t recognize the Armenian Genocide and congratulated Azerbaijan for its incursion of Artsakh and Aliyev’s birthday, etc. How much aid did US give to Azerbaijan. (A Russian ally) in the past 10 years??
My paternal grandmother was Ukrainian. What are you talking about? Kyiv used to be the capital of Rus not Ukraine. It’s where Russians adopted orthodox Christianity. It didn’t become Ukraine until 1918. It was part of Russia well before it ever became Ukraine. But, you go ahead and distort the truth. Ukrainians don’t give an ish about most Armenians unless they are Ukrainian.
But go read about Operation Nemesis II.
https://armenianweekly.com/2024/12/31/meet-nemesis-2-0-the-armenian-ukrainian-military-group-fighting-against-russia/
There are generations of scholars who have pondered the relationship between Kievan Rus and Muscovite Rosya. Your position is both arrogant and irrelevant to the matter at hand. International law has recognized Ukraine as a nation and the people who live there identify as such. Putin’s Russia is a kleptocratic dictatorship. Ukraine, like Armenia, is a nascent democracy. Russia’s invasion is criminal. Putin’s Russia represents neither Russia nor anything that could be regarded as anything other than a criminal regime. Your position is appalling.
It’s interesting how often we get new insights into the considerations that go into creating Eric’s prejudices.
Watch Servant of the People. You might learn a few things
Well, watching that episode was certainly an hour not wasted!
For more evidence of rapid consolidation of a European response to the US abandonment of Ukraine, see on YouTube: Europe’s Historic €800 Billion Defense Plan: A Game Changer. We who still believe in a constitutional republic need to support these European states in whatever way we can. Trump is a traitor, and I do not say that flippantly.
Evidently Serbia has apologized to Russia for the condemnation of Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Oops. It was supposed to have been a mere abstention. That still puts Serbia in a less subservient position to Putin than the USA and Israel!
The real story is Trump is promoting nalevo and blat as means of survival in America. Soon there will be egg lines. You better know someone or have a relative or you’ll be left with the powdered stuff.
Mr. Myovich has failed to provide any background context behind the rare earth minerals agreement that Ukrainian President Vlodymyrr Zelenskyy was supposed to sign during his meeting with Republican President Donald Trump.
First, the agreement was originally a bi-partisan deal peddled by Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut) and Lyndsey Graham (R-South Carolina). Not only did it have Zelenskyy’s full support, but his government backed it.
Second, it originally was supposed to be signed into law by Democratic President Joe Biden before he left office. However, the Ukrainians later decided it would be much better for Trump do it so he could take full credit for it.
Below is an excerpt from a statement released by Blumenthal in August 2024:
“President Zelensky was excited about and was committed to obtaining a strategic agreement with the U.S. regarding the more than a trillion dollars-worth of rare earth minerals owned by Ukraine and expressed a commitment to create a working group with the U.S. to make this happen.”
“Expanding economic cooperation with Ukraine makes America stronger and accelerates Ukraine’s economic recovery. Ukraine is blessed with significant lithium, titanium, and other rare earth minerals that are needed by the American economy. An agreement with Ukraine in this area would make the U.S. less dependent on foreign adversaries for rare earth minerals.”
See the following press release:
Blumenthal & Graham on Visit to Ukraine
https://www.blumenthal.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/blumenthal-and-graham-on-visit-to-ukraine
Also see:
Kyiv delayed minerals deal with US to let Trump take credit, NYT reports
https://www.yahoo.com/news/kyiv-delayed-minerals-deal-us-184828960.html
Duane Roberts I do not see how this is the least bit relevant to Friday’s Oval Office obscenity. Of course there was a rare earth deal that included a security guarantee for Ukraine. And of course Putin told Trump not to sign it. The rest of the democratic world was appalled by what happened and rallied powerfully in support of Ukraine. The refusal of any elected Republican to blame Putin for this war and state that the only just settlement is the return of Ukrainian territory is utterly contemptible.
Expect Zelenskyy to return and sign the rare earth deal with the security guarantees. Zelenskyy knows full well that Trump can’t be trusted, but Trump cannot be seen as the complete Putin tool that he is. Zelenskyy will sign and give the egomaniac and pathological liar all the credit. Trump will declare himself great and Zelenskyy will live to fight another day.
Do you have any court worthy evidence that “Putin told Trump not to sign” the rare earth minerals agreement? For example, do you have access to transcripts of wiretapped Kremlin conversations between Putin and Trump?
Furthermore, what differences, if any, actually exist between the text of the rare earth minerals agreement that Putin allegedly told Trump not to sign and the bi-partisan one that was touted by both Democratic and Republican Senators?
Do that means that if Putin takes over Ukraine he would have all kinds of massively valuable rare-earth metals — and Trump wouldn’t even be guaranteed a cut of them? That truly is astounding!
Zelensky doesn’t need America to help them fight Russia. The Europeans have $300 BILLION in frozen Russian assets, which they can and very well may give to Ukraine to get them thru this war. Now Trump and Vance are panicking and trying to get VK back to the table. Listen:
https://x.com/maddenifico/status/1897430855993479379/video/1
2 things to take away about American foreign policy and sovereignty.
Don’t believe what U.S. officials say about protecting you. Realpolitik controls all outcomes.
Don’t build infrastructure that you can’t protect.
Switching allegiances to the long-term enemy and main global nuclear rival is “Realpolitik”? In what universe?
Not helping Armenia retain Artsakh/N-K was “Realpolitik.” This is Surrealpolitik.
Remind me how the U.S. prevented Ukrainian famine in the early 1930s.
The U.S. ignored its own laws to help Azerbaijan accomplish its goals. It was not a matter of “not helping”. As a mediator of the frozen conflict since 1994, the U.S. had no business picking sides. But it did.
No one can guarantee Ukraine’s safety except Ukraine.
Because something is not based on past history, doesn’t make it wrong. Just like some want Ukraine to exist beyond three or so decades, first world countries can realign their interests and allegiances.
Nothing is guaranteed. That Zelenskyy is left lobbying for his country’s survival demonstrates just how precipitous the odds are stacked against it.
Its only cards now are trading its natural resources. Something Armenia has faced.
That was because of the aberration that is Trump. If Kamala had won, Zelensky would be doing just fine.
Your comment about Ukraine is nonsensical. What makes you think that Ukraine can “guarantee” its own safety? It’s clear that they can’t, through not fault of their own.
If it can’t guarantee its own safety it is not much of a sovereign nation is it?
What exactly do you think that the word “sovereign” means? Maybe we’re getting to the root of the problem here.
Completely independent and authority over its borders. That sounds about right. Not wrapped in tin foil.
I’ll presume that you meant to write: “Completely independent authority over its borders.”
OK, by that definition, is the USA “sovereign”? [Testing whether keeping out unwanted immigrants is required.]
Was Armenia “sovereign”? [Testing whether ability to repel invasion is required.]
For that matter, was Azerbaijan (before it assimilated Artsakh) sovereign? [Testing whether holding land it declares as part of its territory is required.]
And is the word “independent” doing any actual work here? Can you give an example of a country with “complete authority over its borders” that fails your “sovereignty test” because that authority is not “independent” (whatever that means in practice)?
But maybe you did mean (1) “Completely independent” and (2) “authority over its borders” as two separate things. In that case, Russia’s sovereignty fails the second test. And arguably almost every country that depends on international trade and commerce fails the first test.
Wait what is your definition of sovereign nation? And I don’t think you understand what independence is. Entering into treaties with other countries is not relinquishing your independence, it’s exercising it.
My definition is … irrelevant to this discussion, counselor. (I’d look up case law if I needed one.)
You’re the one who asserted that if a country can’t “guarantee its own safety it is not much of a sovereign nation” and I’m still trying to figure out what you meant. The U.S., in the eyes of its leader, cannot “guarantee its own safety” because of immigrants. Canada can’t “guarantee its own safety” because of the prospect of U.S. invasion. Mexico can’t “guarantee its own safety” because of the U.S. and criminal gangs. Yet all three would conventionally be considered “sovereign.” I suppose the core of such a status would be international recognition (regardless of the existence of border disputes) and the ability to make its own decisions (despite the fact of hegemonic others infringing on exercise of sovereignty.) Ukraine is clearly sovereign by that defition.
Greg,
You can think what you want. Criminals, illegal immigration and neighboring countries can all erode countries sovereignty. But war is on the top of the list of placing a nation’s sovereignty at stake.
I don’t remember Mexico or Canada relinquishing or losing any land to the U.S. in a conflict.
How long has Russia had control of Crimea??
You’ve never heard of the Mexican-American war?
You still don’t seem to understand the concept of sovereignty, but I’m willing to move on from this until you goad me to come back to it.
You remember that?? Lol. Anywho. Mexico is still a country and not a protectorate pretending to be one. And, yes, Mexico ceded territory but still retained its sovereignty. And, you proved my point re war being the greatest challenge to a sovereign nation’s sovereignty.
From the “Fear and Loathing / Closer to the Edge” substack blog https://closertotheedge.substack.com/p/what-else-could-a-russian-asset-possibly :
Senator Jeff Merkley walked into the hearing room like a man who’d just been told his car got keyed and knew exactly who did it. On the other side of the table sat Christopher Landau, Trump’s nominee for Deputy Secretary of State, who looked like he hadn’t slept since Inauguration Day, and Matthew Whitaker, a former acting Attorney General who carries himself like a guy who still brags about his high school bench press record.
The setup was simple: Merkley had questions, and Landau and Whitaker had excuses — weak, sweaty excuses that couldn’t outrun a three-legged dog.
It didn’t take long for the whole thing to unravel. Merkley started calmly, like a guy setting mousetraps in a room full of blindfolded rats. Then the hammer dropped.
Senator Jeff Merkley: “I wanted to, uh… uh… ask you, Mr. Landau — is President Trump a Russian asset?”
That’s how Merkley started — no warmup, no warning. Just kicked the door open and asked the question nobody else had the nerve to say out loud.
Mr. Landau: “Absolutely not, Senator. He’s the President of the United States, duly elected by the American people.”
Landau might as well have answered, “Please don’t ask me anything else.” Merkley wasn’t about to let him off that easy.
Senator Merkley: “Well, the reason I ask is many people back home have been asking me this question. And they say, ‘If he was an asset, we would see exactly what he’s doing now.'”
It’s the kind of thing that sounds conspiratorial until you start listing the evidence. And that’s exactly what Merkley did.
Senator Merkley: “For example… he proceeded to forward — or express from the Oval Office — propaganda that has been Russian propaganda… that Ukraine started the war… that, uh… Zelensky is a dictator.”
Step one: repeat Kremlin talking points like they’re gospel.
Senator Merkley: “Second of all… he gave away key things on the negotiating table before the negotiations even started, ensuring the U.S. would absolutely oppose, um… any possibility of NATO membership for Ukraine.”
That’s like showing up to a poker game and tossing your entire stack of chips across the table before the first card’s dealt.
Senator Merkley: “Uh… third… he’s cut off the arms shipments to Ukraine completely — undermining their ability against a massive neighbor next door with short supply lines and… and huge resources.”
Pause here and picture Vladimir Putin popping champagne.
Senator Merkley: “Fourth… he’s undermined the partnership with Europe, which has been essential to security over the last 80 years — a major goal of Putin’s.”
At this point, Merkley wasn’t describing bad policy — he was reading Putin’s wish list.
Senator Merkley: “And then… he’s done everything to discredit and demean Zelensky on the international stage — notably with that shameful press conference in which he teamed up with the Vice President to attack Zelensky.”
Ah yes, that infamous JD Vance press conference — the diplomatic equivalent of shoving Zelensky’s head in a toilet while Putin watched from the corner clapping like a seal.
Senator Merkley: “I can’t imagine that if he was a Russian asset, he could be doing anything more favorable than these five points.”
Boom. Merkley didn’t need to say “traitor” — he just pointed at the scoreboard.
Senator Merkley: “Uh… what else could a Russian asset actually possibly do that Trump hasn’t yet done?”
What else, indeed? The room was dead silent — the kind of pause where you can hear chairs creak and paper shuffle.
Landau tried to squirm out.
Mr. Landau: “Senator, the President has made it absolutely clear that his top priority is to try to bring peace and end an absolutely savage war. I… I know you’re familiar with the, uh… the… the savagery. This is turning into World War I-style trench warfare now in eastern Ukraine.”
Translation: I have nothing, so let me ramble until you forget what you asked.
Mr. Landau: “The President is an exceptionally gifted dealmaker. He is probably the only individual in the entire universe that could actually stop this.”
The entire universe. Not just Earth — the universe. Apparently Trump’s cutting side deals with Alpha Centauri now.
Senator Merkley: “Well, let’s turn to another — thank you very much, since you’re now off the topic I was raising.”
That’s polite for “You’re embarrassing yourself — let’s try someone else.”
Merkley turned to Whitaker.
Senator Merkley: “Mr. Whitaker, these five things that the President has done that are so favorable to Putin and so damaging to Ukraine and to our partnership with Europe… do you approve of them?”
Whitaker tried the old “blame Biden” routine.
Mr. Whitaker: “Well, Senator, thanks for that question. I’m just going to have to, uh… politely disagree with you, uh… on those five things and the way you’ve framed them.”
“You know… the war in Ukraine would have never happened if President Trump was president in 2022. The war in Ukraine happened because of Joe Biden’s weakness.”
Merkley didn’t flinch.
Senator Merkley: “Well, maybe you could some other time go on television and express those points of view, but… do you mind just answering the question I asked?”
And that’s where Whitaker realized he’d stepped into the bear trap.
Senator Merkley: “Do you agree with the five things that President Trump has done — starting with him expressing Russian propaganda from the Oval Office?”
Mr. Whitaker: “Well, you know… again, as I mentioned to your colleague, I am not here to assign labels. We’re in the middle of a very, uh… important peace negotiation.”
Senator Merkley: “I agree. Thank you. Uh… I… I do hope that we have an Administration that works to get the very best deal for Ukraine.
“But what a Russian asset would do would be to work to get the very best deal for Russia — and that appears to be exactly what Donald Trump is trying to accomplish.”
Merkley didn’t shout. He didn’t wave his arms. He just said it — clear as glass — and let the silence hang heavy in the room.
Landau and Whitaker sat there like a couple of guys who’d just realized their GPS was guiding them into a lake.
If Trump isn’t a Russian asset, he’s sure putting in the effort to look like one.
I’d read that elsewhere, Samuel, but I hadn’t thought to copy that here. Thanks for preserving that gem here. Merkley is among our best Senators.
Is Zelensky an American asset??
No.