The Ukrainian leader’s failure at Friday’s meeting with Donald Trump has highlighted that he is an “impediment to peace” and has to be removed, John Kiriakou has told RT.
Vladimir Zelensky is done as the leader of Ukraine and should be removed, journalist and former CIA analyst John Kiriakou told RT, commenting on the verbal spat between Zelensky and US President Donald Trump at the White House on Friday.
The meeting became heated when Zelensky resisted Trump’s demand to negotiate peace with Russia, leading the latter to accuse him of ingratitude and an unwillingness to end the conflict. Consequently, Zelensky left the White House prematurely, without signing an agreement that would have granted the US rights to Ukraine’s natural resources. The planned joint press conference was canceled.
“For all intents and purposes, Zelensky is done. I wouldn’t be surprised if in three months Zelensky is living in London or some such place,” Kiriakou said on Friday. He noted that Zelensky, who, citing martial law, refused to step down after his presidential mandate ended last year, will “have to be removed” because he “continues to be an impediment to peace.”
“You know, they’ve got this provision in the Ukrainian constitution where they don’t have to have elections during a time of martial law…Maybe it’s time to take a second look at that, get him out, and elect somebody who can negotiate in good faith with the Russian government,” the analyst suggested.
Kiriakou noted that without the support of Washington, which Kiev effectively lost when Zelensky antagonized Trump on Friday, the Ukraine conflict can be considered “over.”
“[Zelensky] can’t rely on NATO… if the US pulls out. And it looks very much that the US is in the process now of pulling out. The conflict is over. It’s done. This is today’s reality,” he stated.
Zelensky has previously dismissed the possibility of stepping down. In an interview with Fox News following the meeting with Trump, he responded to a call from US Senator Lindsey Graham “to resign and send somebody over that we can do business with.” Zelensky stated he won’t do that unless asked by the Ukrainian people. According to Kiriakou, losing the support of such a pro-Kiev figure as Graham is yet another sign that Zelensky time at the helm is over, as is the conflict itself.
“In the US Congress, we have workhorses and we have show horses. And Lindsey Graham is a show horse. So when you’ve lost Lindsey Graham, you’ve lost the war. [It] is a message to Vladimir Zelensky that it’s time to just stop,” the analyst said.
Done on both sides
Double battered and Dixie fried
Zelensky is a liability not an asset
Who has now found sanctuary and solace back in Britain
Recovering from those hurty truth words
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Europe needs war – it is their only hopium
Lets hope the little weasel zelenski is removed fast.
Macron and Starmer are meeting a little too often for my taste. With the new dutch idiot NATO head and war monger Rutte.
France an the UK are the only countries in europe having nuclear weapons.
And France an the UK were never the greater of friends…..
What is brewing ?
So the Europeans, Brits, Americans, CONvincED the Uktainians that they would stand behind them all the way.
Prodding Ukraine to fight this proxy war. The idea was that Ukraine would fight, and die, for the western countries, maybe even at the start there was hope that Ukraine could defeat Russia. With Russia losing, it would be carved up by the West, its resourses paid back to the West in reparation for cost incurred to support Ukraine in its fight. Now, Ukraine has lost this war, all those cost, weapons, expertise, appear to be in the form of a loan.
Repayment of that loan is due.
With the U.S, now having invested so much in this Ukraiine war, realising the Rissia prize is gone.
Good outcome for the U.S is to negotiate peace, and grab as much of Ukraine as they can.
Good outcome for the EU is to negotiate peace, and grab as much of Ukraine as they can into EU.
Worst case outcome for the West, is that Ukraine surrenders to Russia.
he still has support from Trump’s bigest enemy-Soros and his puppets like ///macron, sterner, Kallas etc
Macron has hinted that he is actively working to restore relations between Ukraine and the United States which have noticeably cooled recently
Would be quite accomplishment for somebody who wasn’t even greeted at the door of the White House
Zelensky shown the door
All of these supposed world leaders are an image being a pathetic moronic bunch of losers who are being exposed for who and what they are and whose agenda and best interests they serve
I still can’t believe our own Prime Minister did not have the intelligence to stay out of this matter when he was best to have shut up
Like Starmer making all sorts of promises before the British election which he is now reneging on when all he had to do was shut up because he was going to win anyway
Absolutely diabolical what is going on now
Dead ’empire’ man walking.