Not One More Dime to Ukraine: Zelensky Brags About How He Lectured US Treasury Secretary Bessent in Kiev “Stop Tapping Your Finger and Let’s Talk Substantively”
Not one more dime to this ungrateful narcissist.
Volodymyr Zelensky is bragging to the press this week on how he lectured US Treasury Secretary Scott Bissent when he came to Ukraine to sign a rare minerals deal.
Zelensky said he told Bessent to quit tapping his finger and talk to Ukraine substantively.
As seen at Catturd2.
BREAKING- Stop tapping your finger and talk like an equal” — Zelensky tells US Treasury Secretary
President Zelensky revealed how he shut down Scott Bessent, after he tried to pressure Ukraine into signing a rare-earth metals deal before Zelensky’s White House visit.
“He…
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There will be no peace with Zelensky as president.
He doesn’t care about the young men being slaughtered in the meatgrinder.
Via RBC Ukraine.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, during his visit to Kyiv in February, expected Ukraine to immediately sign the subsoil deal. However, his approach was mistaken, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“I believe the problems lie in Mr. Bessent’s approach. What he brought with him and said, ‘You need to sign this now’… My colleagues know that tapping your finger on the deal and saying, ‘Now it has to be signed’—I could only tell him, ‘Stop tapping your finger and let’s talk substantively. He probably expected a different kind of dialogue, but I don’t consider Ukraine a third-rate country,’” Zelenskyy emphasized.
The president noted that he and Bessent were supposed to engage on equal terms, as citizens of Ukraine and the United States, with mutual respect. However, this approach “in some sense did not sit well with the American minister.”
He added that he would not disclose all the details of the negotiations with Bessent, but he was not afraid if the US Treasury Secretary decided to reveal the full details.
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