#поїздка зеленського до вашингтона

[tomorrowusa]

Rightwingers in the US just plain hate freedom. 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s surprise arrival in Washington on Wednesday for a meeting with President Joe Biden and a speech before Congress has unhinged the always-seething anti-Ukraine Trumpian right, triggering a deluge of snark and grievance.

Trumpsters naturally don’t like Zelenskyy. Not only is Zelenskyy inflicting major pain on Vladimir Putin, Trump’s liege lord, but Zelenskyy was unable to supply fake “dirt” to Trump about Joe Biden during the infamous perfect phone call of 2019.

The politics of vengeance is a major aspect of Trumpism. But the anti-Zelenskyy and anti-Ukraine hysteria on the far right does go beyond the Ukrainian president’s unwillingness to play footsie with US semi-fascists.

The question of why the Trumpian populist right is so consumed with hatred for Ukraine—a hatred that clearly goes beyond concerns about U.S. spending, a very small portion of our military budget, or about the nonexistent involvement of American troops—doesn’t have a simple answer. Partly, it’s simply partisanship: If the libs are for it, we’re against it, and the more offensively the better. 

The Trumpsters have no problem siding with Putin’s Evil Empire in order to “own the libs”. Ronald Reagan would be spinning in his grave if he knew that so many members of his party were lining up to kiss the ass of a former lieutenant colonel in the Soviet secret police.

Partly, it’s the belief that Ukrainian democracy is a Biden/Obama/Hillary Clinton/”Deep State” project, all the more suspect because it’s related to Trump’s first impeachment. Partly, it’s the “national conservative” distaste for liberalism—not only in its American progressive iteration, but in the more fundamental sense that includes conservatives like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher: the outlook based on individual freedom and personal autonomy, equality before the law, limited government, and an international order rooted in those values. Many NatCons are far more sympathetic to Russia’s crusade against secular liberalism than to Ukraine’s desire for integration into liberal, secular Europe.

The Trumpsters regard anybody who is not a creepy ethno-nationalist to be their enemy. They act like the America First isolationists who admired Hitler and Mussolini in the years leading up to World War II.

Being anti-Ukraine and anti-Zelenskyy makes Trumpsters anti-American too. History will treat them as it does the Hitler-curious US politicians and commentators of the 1930s and early 1940s. It’s fitting that the “national conservatives” – as many call themselves – can be abbreviated as Nat-C.

#volodymyr zelenskyy #visit to washington #donald trump #pro-putin trumpsters #anti-ukraine trumpsters #semi-fascists #the far right #ethno-nationalists #nat-c #authoritarians #hitler-curious #'owning the libs' #vladimir putin #the evil empire #russia #cathy young #нет убийцам #поїздка зеленського до вашингтона #володимир зеленський #вторгнення оркостану в україну #україна #владимир путин #долой путина #путин хуйло #руки прочь от украины! #дональд трамп #путінський пудель #слава україні! #україна переможе

[tomorrowusa]

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has delivered several dozen addresses to various parliaments around the world since Russia began its war of aggression against Ukraine in February. But those were all via video link. On Wednesday he delivered one in person – to a joint meeting of the US Congress.

The 117th Congress has had more than its share of dramatic moments. It is ending its two-year tenure with one of its most edifying and inspirational ones.

The transcript of the speech has been published on the official site of the Ukrainian presidency.

We stand, we fight and we will win. Because we are united. Ukraine, America and the entire free world - address by Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a joint meeting of the US Congress

Some of the more notable segments.

Against all odds and doom and gloom scenarios, Ukraine did not fall. Ukraine is alive and kicking. And it gives me good reason to share with you our first joint victory – we defeated Russia in the battle for minds of the world. We have no fear. Nor should anyone in the world have it.

And I would like to thank you for both, financial packages you have already provided us with, and the ones you may be willing to decide on. Your money is not charity. It's an investment in the global security and democracy that we handle in the most responsible way.  

Let the terrorist state be held responsible for its terror and aggression, and compensate all losses done by this war.

Meanwhile in Moscow, the Kremlin isn’t taking Zelenskyy’s visit to Washington very well. Putin will be needing a bigger table.

#invasion of ukraine #volodymyr zelenskyy #visit to washington #joe biden #military aid for ukraine #resistance to tyranny #speech to congress #117th congress #stand with ukraine #володимир зеленський #джо байден #поїздка зеленського до вашингтона #вторгнення оркостану в україну #владимир путин #путин хуйло #геть з україни #україна переможе #слава україні! #героям слава!

[tomorrowusa]

It’s amazing to see Zelensky speaking to a U.S. Congress that impeached a president over a 2019 conversation with him.

Michael Crowley at the New York Times.

Yep, this has been another terrible week for Trump. Seeing President Zelenskyy get more applause than he ever did in the House chamber may have particularly irked him.

It was Trump’s attempt to extort Zelenskyy during the 2019 “perfect phone call” which led directly to the first impeachment.

#volodymyr zelenskyy #visit to washington #speech to congress #donald trump #impeachment #perfect phone call #trump's attempt to extort ukraine #invasion of ukraine #ідеальний телефонний дзвінок #володимир зеленський #вторгнення оркостану в україну #поїздка зеленського до вашингтона #россия - террористическая страна #владимир путин #путин хуйло #трамп хуйло #слава україні! #україна переможе #michael crowley

[tomorrowusa]

President Zelenskyy has been meeting at the White House with President Biden who apparently is wearing a blue and yellow necktie for the occasion. 

The Ukrainian president will speak to a joint meeting of Congress Wednesday evening.

Ukraine's Zelensky visits US as Russia's war continues

#volodymyr zelenskyy #visit to washington #joe biden #white house #military aid for ukraine #invasion of ukraine #russia's war of aggression #vladimir putin #putin is a war criminal #stand with ukraine #володимир зеленський #поїздка зеленського до вашингтона #джо байден #Білий дім #зеленський виявився крутішим за путіна #вторгнення оркостану в україну #владимир путин #военные преступления #путин хуйло #путин – это лжедмитрий iv а не пётр великий #руки прочь от украины! #геть з україни #україна переможе #слава україні! #героям слава!