Democratic lawmakers rushed to defend Volodymyr Zelenskyy after the Ukrainian leader was publicly berated by Donald Trump in a disastrous Oval Office meeting.

The US president accused Zelenskyy of ā€œgambling with world war threeā€ while his vice-president, JD Vance, called the Ukrainian leader ā€œdisrespectfulā€, before cutting short talks aimed at kicking off the process of ending Kyivā€™s three-year war with Russia.

Zelenskyy abruptly left the White House soon after without signing a rare critical minerals deal with the US that Trump has said is the first step toward a ceasefire agreement that he is seeking to broker between Russia and Ukraine.

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    13 hours ago

    Protecting the people in eastern Ukraine was a justification they used, which they wouldnā€™t have been able to use if the right-wing government the US propped up in kyiv hadnā€™t passed discriminatory laws and failed to stop azov and friends from shelling them.

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      This has been debunked. The Donbas ā€œrebellionā€ would have fizzled out without military support from the Kremlin (Igor Girkin himself admitted to this), Boris Nemtsov was assassinated for publishing a report on putinā€™s proxy war in the Donbas. But after an surprise invasion and 3 years of debating with people like you, if you canā€™t get the facts right, there is no point in debating anymore.

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        Man they are in force today. Reminds me of all the anti Biden Gaza bots. I am sure they are happy about Trumpā€™s casino going up soon. So much better than arranging a cease fire.