Trump’s speech duel with Zelensky and the media propaganda

The catastrophic global security situation was predictable for a long time by all those who understood that in the midst of a liberal civilization there are remarkably influential forces that keep people at odds with each other in the manner of medieval feudal lords. The financing of Lenin1) and Hitler2) by this financial aristocracy was one of the triggers for the Russian October Revolution, the subsequent civil war, the Nazi dictatorship and the Second World War. Apart from the financial elite itself, it was polarizing media and irresponsible politicians who incited the nations of European culture against each other during the 20th century – as the example of the Creel Committee (1907-1919) shows.

If people had learned from the destructive incitement and developed into critical and responsible citizens, the Ukraine War would never have happened, nor would the 5th Middle East War. Swiftly catching up on this emancipation of citizens is now a question of fate of liberal civilization. In Israel and the USA in particular, a majority of people are already developing the necessary healthy mistrust. It is directed against a UN that supposedly creates peace, against organizations that are also often only supposedly charitable, against an allegedly fair information system and against politicians who are escalating a third fratricidal European war with arms deliveries instead of settling the dispute through mediation. Europe, and Germany in particular, are lagging dangerously behind in this important emancipation.

Already during the American presidential election campaign in 2016, a massive media campaign against Donald Trump was underway in Germany, which was actually uninvolved. An estimated 80% of the manipulated Germans voted for Hillary Clinton. The same thing was repeated in the 2020 and 2024 election campaigns and in a weaker form in the interim periods. This artificially created bias against the US president is now having devastating consequences when it comes to authentic cohesion among liberal nations – namely to ward off this perfidious polarization.

Trump differs from his slippery predecessors and colleagues in his poorly developed diplomatic skills. However, this supposed stigma must finally be recognized as an advantage in a democracy – because it lets citizens and all other politicians know where they stand. Dishonesty, intrigue, betrayal and lies have played a very large and very destructive role in history. Enough is enough.

Trump’s peace initiative, announced before his election, was of course a thorn in the side of the MIC and NATO militarists and various other groups. The only question was what ‘diplomatic’ (i.e. insincere) strategies they would use to try to delay or prevent a peace agreement with Russia. The first answer was to move the NATO headquarters for the Ukraine war out of reach of any US president to Wiesbaden, Germany in the summer of 2024. Another and certainly not the last answer came from the discussion in the Oval Office between Trump, Vance and Zelensky on February 28, 2025, during which Trump was provoked into using a loud tone. To be precise, it was the counter-event ‘coincidentally’ scheduled for two days later in London, at which Zelensky found himself in the company of a group of NATO heads of state.

The comments of this political establishment and the mainstream media ranged from comparing the moods, according to which Zelensky was among friends again in London, in contrast to Washington, to accusing Trump of “doing Putin’s dirty work”. The double staging was coordinated with propaganda aimed at emotional appeals (actually the lowest of the low, but unfortunately effective).

Factual considerations in the Washington discussion remained out of focus or were not mentioned at all. These included Trump’s correct statements that Zelensky was governing without a democratic mandate by having cancelled the elections that were due a year ago, that he was forcing men to the front, and that by refusing a ceasefire he was risking a third world war that would endanger millions of people’s lives.

Even less did representatives of the journalistic and political establishment see fit to question the values ​​that Zelensky claimed in this discussion, which are supposedly being fought for in Ukraine.

“But for us, it’s very important to save our country, our values, our freedom and democracy.” – But for us, it’s important to save our country, our values, our freedom and democracy.3) While in reality it must be about the interests of the Ukrainian-speaking and Russian-speaking people in the country, whose lives are constantly at risk, Zelensky only talks about the country he wants to save. If he had read the UN Charter, he would have found in Article 1 / Paragraphs 1 and 2 what peacekeeping is mainly about, namely the right to self-determination. “The purposes of the United Nations are: 1. To maintain international peace …; 2. To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of … self-determination of peoples.”

In the event of a conflict such as the one in Ukraine, it has to be the free will of the people to decide whether they belong to one country or the other.

Even in the spirit of the Minsk Agreement of 2014/2015, the correct handling of the Ukraine conflict would have been to let the people in the Russian-speaking regions decide on autonomy solutions by referendum rather than rearmament and military efforts.

After the military escalation that has instead taken place, it will probably be unavoidable that joining Russia will also have to be a regional option.

Free referendums would actually correspond to the claimed democratic principles and create the foundation for a fair peace.

The alleged defense of Ukrainian values ​​is also not a reliable claim. For centuries, Ukrainians were able to cultivate their culture in harmony with Russian culture within the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. Now, one cannot seriously speak of the special values ​​of independent Ukraine when it systematically denies its many Russian-speaking citizens the mirror-image freedom to retain their language and culture (2017 Education Law, 2019 Language Law). At the latest with the ban on Russian town and village names, street names and geographical designations, the limits of civilized behavior have been exceeded.

The equally claimed defense of freedom and democracy would require a democratic gradient towards Russia. However, in addition to the postponed elections, various autocratic measures to manipulate opinion (ban on opposition parties, closure of critical television stations) even before the invasion in February 2022 speak against such a claim. Objectively seen, Trump and Vance were right on every single point.

Ukraine’s refusal to negotiate with Russia and to agree to a ceasefire as a constructive first step leaves only a military ‘solution’. This in itself is irresponsible and, as Trump has repeatedly stressed, leads to ever greater loss of life. Wanting to force the victory of the weaker country against the world’s strongest nuclear power by further escalating arms deliveries has all the characteristics of a suicide program.

A look at public opinion in Israel, the United States or Hungary is one of the few ways to say goodbye to this program in time. It is about identifying the hate propaganda and the misguided military defenders of our free civilization as such, so that everyone can find their way back to reality and fairness.