On NBC’s Meet the Press show on Sunday, US House Speaker Mike Johnson said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy needs come back to the bargaining table or face his possible replacement.
Zelenskyy “needs to come to his senses and come back to the table in gratitude or someone else needs to lead the country to do that. It’s up to the Ukrainians to figure that out,” Johnson said, commenting on the meeting that the Ukrainian president had with President Donald Trump and Vic e President JD Vance, which was broadcast to the world on Friday. The meeting ended on a heated note, and Zelenskyy was shown the door to the White House and told to leave and not come back until he was ready to talk peace.
“I’ve attended many bilateral meetings with heads of state and dignitaries, but I’ve never seen anything like President Zelenskyy’s behavior in the Oval Office. He berated and interrupted his hosts. He should apologize and accept the mineral rights deal,” Johnson said.
Pollster Frank Luntz said on Saturday it appears the majority of Americans agree that Zelenskyy was wrong.
“I can tell you, we are reverting to peace through strength. President Trump has brought back strength to the White House,” Speaker Johnson said. “We knew that this moment would come, we worked hard for it to come, and now it’s here. But we need these parties to go along with this, and we need President Zelenskyy to do what is necessary. This war has drug on far too long. He’s lost hundreds of thousands of people, including women and children. We’ve got to bring an end to it, and I think our European allies are hoping that’s the case and we are as well.”
On Sunday, the Prime Minister of Great Britain said European countries will increase their military support for Ukraine. To date, the United States has been the primary funder of the Ukraine side of the war, with Congress appropriating over $183 billion for the Ukrainians. The European countries have chipped in millions.
“We are at a crossroads in history,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain said. ““One thing our history tells us is that if there is conflict in Europe, it will wash up on our shores.”
His comments came after Starmer and Zelenskyy met at 10 Downing Street in London on Saturday, following Zelenskyy’s disastrous meeting at the White House Friday.
Trump is likely to speak more about the war in Ukraine and his administration’s position on it during his State of the Union speech on Tuesday before a joint session of Congress.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski said she was sick to her stomach over President Donald Trump’s approach to the conflict. Read her point of view in this story:
Frankly the Speaker should know better than to comment.
“We are at a crossroads in history,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain said. ““One thing our history tells us is that if there is conflict in Europe, it will wash up on our shores.”
Um, somebody needs to point Herr Starmer to a map — Britain IS a part of Europe.
And speaking of “crossroads”, how is that little totalitarian censorship project coming along in the UK? From all that I hear and read, quite handily. Along with the globalists’ Great Replacement project of replacing the native British population with fundamentally unassimilable Third-World immigrants.
“Sen. Lisa Murkowski said she was sick to her stomach over President Donald Trump’s approach to the conflict.”
Speaking of being sick to the stomach, Princess Lisa, your every official utterance does that to the large majority of Alaskans, and non-traitorous Americans.
People should wait to see how it all plays out before they take a meaningless stand on this. Our words have no impact on what will occur this time.
Good to see the warmongers turning on the cocaine addict. How exactly is ukraine an ally? I don’t remember seeing our ukrainian allies in OEF/OIF… Oh that’s right, they weren’t there. Joke is on anybody who actually believes that ukraine is an ally….morons.
It’s worth noting that Europe by and large has contributed to the Ukraine war effort through loans, whereas the United States has contributed more than all of Europe in the form of grants. Throughout history when one nation contributes to the war effort of another nation it has largely been done by way of loans and not through grants.