International Tyrant Double Feature

Zelensky Attacks Trump & Vance In US Media During Latest Beggar Tour

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is bashing former President Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), attacking them in American Media outlets while touring an ammunition factory in Pennsylvania Sunday — reportedly arriving there at the taxpayers’ expense on an chartered Air Force jet.

The New Yorker has an exhaustive piece on Zelensky penned by Joshua Yaffa, stating that the Ukrainian leader “speaks with the urgency of a leader who knows that he may be facing his last best chance for substantial foreign assistance” as President Biden’s presidential term is coming to an end. The Q&A in the piece is revealing, as Zelensky openly attacks Trump, asserting that he “doesn’t really know how to stop the war even if he might think he knows how.”

“With this war, oftentimes, the deeper you look at it the less you understand. I’ve seen many leaders who were convinced they knew how to end it tomorrow, and as they waded deeper into it, they realized it’s not that simple,” he said, ripping Trump’s running mate, Vance, as “too radical.”

“Vance has come out with a more precise plan to—” the New Yorker asked as Zelensky chimed in, “to give up our territories.”

“Your words, not mine. But, yes, that’s the gist of it,” the New Yorker continued as Zelensky continued to, essentially, criticize the Trump-Vance ticket:

“His message seems to be that Ukraine must make a sacrifice. This brings us back to the question of the cost and who shoulders it. The idea that the world should end this war at Ukraine’s expense is unacceptable. But I do not consider this concept of his a plan, in any formal sense. This would be an awful idea, if a person were actually going to carry it out, to make Ukraine shoulder the costs of stopping the war by giving up its territories. But there’s certainly no way this could ever happen. This kind of scenario would have no basis in international norms, in U.N. statute, in justice. And it wouldn’t necessarily end the war, either. It’s just sloganeering.”

It would be one thing if these were just interviews, but according to reports, Zelensky, who has been busying himself criticizing the Republican ticket for president, flew into the United State and toured an ammunition factory in the key swing state of Pennsylvania on Sunday. Further, it seems he arrived to the facility on an U.S. Air Force C-17. In other words, he arrived on the U.S. taxpayers’ dime:

Donald Trump Jr. is among those who pointed to the absurdity of the entire stunt.

“So a foreign leader who has received billions of dollars in funding from American taxpayers, comes to our country and has the nerve to attack the GOP ticket for President?” he asked, noting the timing of this is particularly poor, as a man with an obsession with Ukraine attempted to murder his father just one week ago. And he does this right after a pro-Ukraine zealot tried to assassinate my father? Disgraceful!”

Don Jr. added:

It should be noted that in June, Vice President Kamala Harris promised another $1.5 billion to Ukraine. During a recent interview on X Spaces, Trump said he will end the Russia-Ukraine war as president-elect:

“I want to get Russia to settle up with Ukraine and stop this — millions of people being killed, far greater than the number you read about. But I want to get that done before I even take office, I want to get that done as president-elect, because it has to be solved — too many people dying, too many cities are just in rubble right now, you look at the cultures just being destroyed. We’ve got to get that done, and I’ll get it done. There wouldn’t have been an October 7th, there wouldn’t have been Russia attacking Ukraine, there wouldn’t be inflation, all this inflation which has hurt people so badly. You wouldn’t have had that horrible type of withdrawal — we were getting out of Afghanistan, but with dignity and strength — that was the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country.”

Trump added, pointing to the weakness of the Biden-Harris Administration:

“And frankly Russia would have never gone into Ukraine if it weren’t for that; they looked at that and they said, ‘This country is no longer run by Trump. This country is run by stupid people.’” ✪

Brazil Socialist President Condemns Israel, Calls For ‘Global Taxation Standards’ & Defends Censorship In UN Speech

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adical leftist president of Brazil Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva used his opening speech to the U.N. General Assembly Tuesday to condemn the government of Israel for allegedly seeking “revenge” against Hamas terrorists and to defend widespread censorship of conservatives.

Brazil traditionally opens the speeches at the General Assembly every year, a tradition that began in 1955 when Brazil’s leaders offered to speak first when other countries hesitated.

Lula began his speech, the second since he took office for a third term in January 2023, by making special mention of the Palestinian delegation and welcoming the presence of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. Despite not being a country, the United Nations always grants the Palestinian Authority a speaking spot at the General Assembly.

The Brazilian president’s speech covered several topics including the war in Ukraine, Israeli self-defense operations against the jihadists of Hamas, alleged climate change and calls to reform the United Nations Charter and the U.N. Security Council.

Lula – without directly mentioning or condemning Israel, as he already done several times following the October 7 terrorist attack — described the situation in Gaza and the West Bank as “one of the greatest humanitarian crises in recent history, which is now spreading dangerously into Lebanon.”

“What began as a terrorist action by fanatics against innocent Israeli civilians has become a collective punishment for the entire Palestinian people,” Lula said. “There are more than 40,000 fatality victims, mostly women and children.”

The 40,000 death toll comes from the “Gaza Health Ministry,” a Hamas-controlled entity. “The right to defense has become the right to revenge, which prevents an agreement for the release of hostages and postpones the ceasefire,” he claimed.

On the purported climate change crisis,  Lula declared, “in times of increasing polarization, expressions like ‘deglobalization’ have become commonplace.” It is “impossible to ‘deplanetize’ our common life,” he stated, adding, “we are doomed to the interdependence of climate change.”

“The planet is no longer waiting to demand payment from the next generation and is fed up with unfulfilled climate agreements,” Lula said. “It is tired of neglected carbon reduction targets and financial aid to poor countries that does not arrive. Denialism succumbs to evidence of global warming.”

The Brazilian president referred to the massive floods in southern Brazil this year and the ongoing and record-breaking fires in the Amazon Rainforest. Leftist environmentalists, activists and celebrities widely denounced such fires during the administration of Lula’s predecessor, conservative former President Jair Bolsonaro, but have largely ignored them under Lula’s administration despite the situation being much more dire.

Lula claimed that his “government does not outsource responsibilities nor abdicate its sovereignty” in the matter of forest fires, claiming that his administration has reduced deforestation in the Amazon by 50 percent in 2023 and will “eradicate it” by 2030.

Lula also appeared to defend widespread censorship of conservative voices in his country – which peaked with a ban on the social media site Twitter in August, by referring to it as necessary for “the defense of democracy.” Twitter, also known as “X,” is expected to soon return to Brazil after owner Elon Musk greenlit censorship concessions to the Supreme Federal Tribunal (STF), Brazil’s top court.

“The defense of democracy implies permanent action against extremist, messianic and totalitarian attacks, which spread hatred, intolerance and resentment,” he claimed, adopting a dramatically different tone than when condemning Israel’s campaign against terrorist massacres by Hamas.

“Brazilians will continue to defeat those who try to undermine institutions and put them at the service of reactionary interests,” Lula said. “In a globalized world, it makes no sense to resort to false patriots and isolationists.”

The Brazilian president claimed that the future of the region depends “above all, on building a sustainable, efficient, inclusive State that confronts all forms of discrimination.”

Governments, he added, should “not be intimidated by individuals, corporations or digital platforms that consider themselves above the law” – in an apparent reference to the developing situation with Twitter.

Lula also made calls for international “global taxation standards” as the “super-rich pay proportionally much less tax than the working class.” ✪

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