Passive Aggressive – From Baseline of Victimhood Zelenskyy Criticizes Trump, Vance and Rubio for Lack of American Global Protection

In what will be remembered for a remarkable set of geopolitical statements that cover roughly four-minutes, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy decrees the administration of President Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio no longer represents a nation who believe in the advancement of global protection and the responsibility to protect smaller nations.

Whoever inside the Zelensky administration is writing these speeches, is purposefully antagonizing the United States and trying to create further division internally.  These are very strategically written works of snark from a very particular psychology.  I strongly urge everyone to listen to these remarks as they highlight the disturbing intent of a Machiavellian deceiver.  [Video and Transcript Below]

Zelenskyy, framing himself as the global judge of all things virtuous and victimized, notes the importance of the American mid-term election happening today, then uses that American context to cast aspersions toward statements made by President Trump, JD Vance (Berlin security conference ’25) and Marco Rubio (Acropolis in Athens). Zelenskyy then states vision behind the Statue of Liberty -which he cites- is no longer available as a guiding light of optimism to the world.

[Transcript 03:13] – “Today, November 3rd, the world will be watching one country: America. Elections are taking place there today, and they will shape the future of the United States Congress, the future of American policy, and the future of those who are used to the United States always being somewhere nearby.

People still have this strong memory of an America they could count on with confidence, without even having to think about it, almost like air. And many still remember the United States that they never had to fear would suddenly disappear from the security map—a map where dozens of countries at different times searched for their place and found it. They were searching because they lacked this very resource, security, and they knew that America was not just a source of freedom.”

“America also stood for certain rules in the world—rules that gave people and nations something real to count on, a certain way of life where freedom truly mattered, and certain relationships between countries backed by real security guarantees.

America brought predictability and a dream: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest – tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door.”

It’s a beautiful dream, and its horizon is the human desire for freedom; its heart is the ability to guarantee security for yourself, for your family, for your life. And this is what brought people together around America. But but we have already seen the days after which the world felt that this picture might no longer exist.

So, in America, elections always come in November; then there is a little time until January for everyone to calm down somehow and get used to the changes. And, of course, sometimes people never really get used to them. Right now, things are deeply uncertain. Many hopes may once again end in disappointment, not because America will become weaker or less interested in the world around it, but because many in America believe it will always stay that way, and that the world can somehow manage without American involvement and without American support for those who simply want the same kind of change in their own countries that free nations have already achieved.

The new generation in America talks, cares, and thinks about different things—not the things that mattered to those who began their journey back in the 20th century.

So, what does this mean for everyone else in the world? We all know the answer, even if many don’t want to say it out loud.

Maybe America will not live its existing alliances; maybe it will still be somewhere within reach; maybe it will speak of our shared past in Athens, with the Parthenon behind it, or somewhere here in Berlin, in places where freedom won a decisive battle for Europe. But it may still be an America that is much more focused on itself—an America that thinks much less about the fact that without it, others might lose their security.

Let me remind you uh one—one statement: “America, the guarantor to the world for the last 80 years, is no longer there.” And these are the words of a serving US ambassador, a very influential, by the way, person. And it wasn’t some shocking news—no, just another fact about the world as it has become.

Those words were spoken in the Gulf, and that makes them especially telling. Few places believed more strongly in that America—the America that guarantees security—and now all they are thinking about is how to prevent another outbreak of full-scale war.

Ladies and gentlemen, we in Europe need to hear this too, and not just because Europe’s own security is so closely tied to America. It’s about more than that.

Ukraine is grateful to the United States, and for us, this gratitude is not something abstract. It’s not about some security promise made long ago—a promise we hope will still be kept. It’s about help, yes, that protects lives here and now in this brutal and insane war that Russia is waging against us.

Without America, thousands and thousands more Ukrainians would have been killed by Russian strikes, and millions more would have become refugees. That’s why we always thank America, and we mean it—even when we say thank you many times in one speech, just to make sure those who sometimes feel we haven’t thanked them enough can hear us.”