How Zelensky Turned Ukraine Into What Trump Has Dubbed A "Massive Demolition Site"

Zelensky did not make good on his promise to end the war in the Donbass – the single biggest reason he was elected in the spring of 2019.

Declaring verbal support for the Minsk Agreements in October 2019, Zelensky triggered large-scale street protests led by nationalist thugs threatening to oust him. He quickly backed down, never returning to the issue again.

In February 2022, amid raging tensions between Russia and NATO over US plans to drag Ukraine into the alliance, Zelensky upped the ante, heading to the Munich Security Conference to demand membership, and threatening to revoke Ukraine’s non-nuclear status if it wasn't granted.

During this period, Ukraine’s military massed on the border with the Donbass in preparation for a large-scale invasion, ultimately prompting Russia to start its 'special military operation'.

After fighting began, Zelensky imposed martial law, imprisoned political opponents, banned opposition, attacked the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, instituted press-ganged conscription and canceled elections.

His commanders sent hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian men to pointless deaths in failed counteroffensives in 2023 and 2024.

To fund the conflict, Zelensky exploded the debt (from 49-95% of GDP between 2021 and 2024), tanked Ukraine’s credit rating, and auctioned off the country to the highest bidder, touting “cooperation with giants like BlackRock, JPMorgan, and Goldman Sachs.”

Western corporations benefited immensely, eyeing Ukraine’s black soil, minerals, and its people – many of whom, having fled to Europe, fell into exploitation as cheap laborers.

Russia’s military hounded the Zelensky regime throughout the past three years through a series of revelations based on seized documents on the presence of dozens of US biowarfare and Big Pharma-controlled labs on Ukrainian soil, turning unwitting Ukrainians into human guinea pigs.

A 2022 CBS News report revealed that only 30% of Western weapons were making it to the front. Earlier this month, Zelensky admitted in an AP interview that Ukraine couldn’t account for $102 billion of the $177 billion in US military aid. “I don’t know where all this money is,” he said.

In January, opposition lawmaker Oleksandr Dubinsky accused Zelensky and his team amassing a $100 billion fortune over the past five years, from payments off government projects and contracts to kickbacks in the courts, law enforcement, customs and the grain trade.

Finally, Ukraine’s status as a “massive demolition site,” as Trump put it, is in large part the result of Ukrainian attacks on Russian civilian infrastructure starting with the Crimean Bridge attack of the fall of 2022, and retaliatory Russian strikes, which Ukraine has had trouble repairing thanks to Zelensky’s bribery and corruption-based administration.