Zelenskyy slaps Trump

Zelenskyy slaps Trump

Why do we not rule out the imminent dissolution of NATO?

 
Abdel Bari Atwan
 
The biggest and most catastrophic mistake made by President Donald Trump, which led to his appearance as an ordinary man rather than the leader of what is currently considered the greatest nation, was his “cow-like behaviour” and his treatment of his guest, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as if he were an Arab leader. This is why he started “rebuking” him about the American military and financial aid, which amounted to more than 350 billion dollars. Without this aid, Kyiv would have fallen into the hands of the Russian army within two weeks, or even two days, and the undisclosed secrets are even more significant.
It never crossed Trump’s mind, who summoned the Ukrainian president to the White House to reprimand him, just as he criticised the Arab leaders he met, that Zelenskyy would respond with unexpected courage, engage in a verbal altercation with him in front of television cameras, entirely refuse to apologize, and leave the United States immediately without signing the trade agreement regarding the United States receiving a share of rare Ukrainian minerals in exchange for its financial and military support to the Ukrainian side in the war against Russia.
 
There are three important lessons that Arab “leaders” can learn in facing the White House, which is the first of its kind and will undoubtedly enter political history, not just American but global as well:
First: Bowing under the feet of American leadership out of fear and terror is not a form of diplomacy or self-restraint, especially when this leadership is “street-like” and arrogant, as is the case with President Trump and before George W. Bush, both of whom are “Republicans.” Confrontation, despite the difference in the balance of power, only leads to more arrogance, insults, and extortion.
The second: Whoever wants to receive American aid, whether military or financial, must expect subjugation and humiliation, paying a heavy price in dignity and security, and making giant concessions in return. The most notable of these, in the Arab case, is accepting surrender to the Israeli enemy, supporting the genocide war it is waging in Gaza, the West Bank, and southern Lebanon, displacing two million Gazan citizens, and turning the Gaza Strip into a Riviera or Singapore, but for the Zionist settlers.
The third: learning from the swift and unified European response in support of the Ukrainian president against an American president who leads the Western world, whose country was their saviour from Nazism in World War II.
European leaders, along with Australia, Britain, and Canada, did not yield or overlook the insult and humiliation of a European leader they considered one of their own. They tell him, “You will not be alone, even if he is mistaken.” There is no room for excuses and calculations; nothing precedes national dignity.
The cost of resisting American or Israeli arrogance is much cheaper than the cost of submitting to it.
All the people who confronted and resisted this arrogance ultimately triumphed—in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq. We have Yemen, which faced this arrogance with missile responses, targeting American ships and aircraft carriers, and even striking Tel Aviv with missiles and drones without fear, in solidarity with our people in Gaza, the role model and hope. Trump lost this confrontation, and Zelenskyy did not win it.
The biggest winners are Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian Vladimir Putin, who rub their hands with joy and gloat over both Trump and Zelenskyy, especially the explosion of destructive disagreements within the Western European-American alliance.
The United States has never known a president as trivial, foolish, and vulgar as President Trump, and we do not believe that the failure of this “bravado” trap he set for the Ukrainian president, which completely backfired, will be his last downfall. Thank God, this president is more dangerous to his country than to his Western allies, and he has a long history of corruption and ethical issues. The “new” America that elects this president, brings him back to the White House, supports the genocidal wars in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Yemen, provides the “Mother of All Bombs” to the occupying state, and destroys its legacy in defending justice and the values of human rights and freedoms deserves this kind of president.
America was defeated in the Ukraine war, and that’s why Trump, who thinks with his wallet rather than his mind, resorted to reconciliation, reluctantly and submissively, with Russia to minimize losses. The credit for this outcome goes to Zelenskyy’s recklessness and his acceptance of the role of a “puppet” in the hands of America and other European countries. We do not rule out that the “street battle” in the White House between Trump and Zelenskyy could be the beginning of the end for both, the dismantling of the Western camp, the collapse of NATO, and the rise of the opposing BRICS system led by the dual leadership of China and Russia.