Zelensky Embracing Britney Spears’ Anthem “Oops… I Did It Again” Using 256 Words On X To Write What He Should Not Have Written. Creating Circular Firing Squad- With Himself. Stop Negotiating.
In 256 Words Zelensky Again Does What He Should Not Have Done.
He Needed Four Words: “I Apologize, President Trump” And Eleven Words “My Government Will Sign The Minerals Agreement As Your Team Presented”
If President Zelensky Returns To The Oval Office, President Trump Will Want To Hear President Zelensky Apologize, Which President Trump Will Accept While Politely Belittling President Zelensky.
President Zelensky Is Incapable Of Appreciating President Trump’s Simplicity Of Negotiating. He Finds Necessity In Continuing To Negotiate Rather Than Say “Yes” To President Trump And Move Onward.
President Zelensky Ignores Card Game “Tells” And Muscles Towards The Newest Shiny Object.
Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine (2019-2024; extended due to imposition of martial law in 2022), has become the 2025 poster child for the “Oops!... I Did It Again” song recorded in 2000 by Britney Spears.
He is learning from his mistakes, but he uses experience from those mistakes to build momentum for and then implement additional mistakes. On his own, he is becoming a circular firing squad.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський
@ZelenskyyUa
10:37 AM - Mar, 4, 2025
“I would like to reiterate Ukraine’s commitment to peace. None of us wants an endless war. Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer. Nobody wants peace more than Ukrainians. My team and I stand ready to work under President Trump’s strong leadership to get a peace that lasts. We are ready to work fast to end the war, and the first stages could be the release of prisoners and truce in the sky — ban on missiles, long-ranged drones, bombs on energy and other civilian infrastructure — and truce in the sea immediately, if Russia will do the same. Then we want to move very fast through all next stages and to work with the US to agree a strong final deal. We do really value how much America has done to help Ukraine maintain its sovereignty and independence. And we remember the moment when things changed when President Trump provided Ukraine with Javelins. We are grateful for this. Our meeting in Washington, at the White House on Friday, did not go the way it was supposed to be. It is regrettable that it happened this way. It is time to make things right. We would like future cooperation and communication to be constructive. Regarding the agreement on minerals and security, Ukraine is ready to sign it in any time and in any convenient format. We see this agreement as a step toward greater security and solid security guarantees, and I truly hope it will work effectively.”
Members of the Zelensky Administration in Kyiv, Ukraine, and in Washington DC received numerous officially-transmitted communications and unofficially-shared recommendations in advance of 28 February 2025 as to the simplest pathway towards appeasing Donald Trump, 47th President of the United States (2025-2029) and J.D. Vance, 50th Vice President of the United States (2025-2029).
President Zelensky then traveled to London, United Kingdom, where he received additional communications and recommendations.
His absorption of the additional communications and advice manifested his statement that the end of the Russian Federation-Ukraine war was “still very, very far away.”
President Trump was furious. Heads of state and heads of government, along with leadership of the Brussels, Belgium-based thirty-two member North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), urged President Zelensky to repair the relationship with President Trump and to apologize to President Trump.
On that day in the Oval Office at The White House, President Zelensky not only misread his audience, he misread the audience of the audience.
Now, four unnecessarily tumultuous days later, President Zelensky and his too often vaunted communications apparatus and outside-of-the-building opinion offerers, gear up for a repeat.
In the 256-word message distributed on X (formerly Twitter), President Zelensky writes “… first stages could be the release of prisoners and truce in the sky — ban on missiles, long-ranged drones, bombs on energy and other civilian infrastructure — and truce in the sea immediately, if Russia will do the same.”
Want to rile President Trump? Take an issue he has worked on to simplify and then complicate it. His statement about the Russian Federation-Ukraine war is transparent and telling: “Every day people are dying. Young handsome soldiers are being killed. Young men, like my sons. On both sides. All over the battlefield.”
President Trump views a cease fire as a straightforward deal- a transaction. And, critically for President Zelensky to appreciate, a cease fire for President Trump enables his “My Complete And Total Endorsement And Support” for the implementation by Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation (2000-2008 and 2012- ).
That binds President Trump with President Putin. President Trump shares that President Putin’s decisions in 2008, 2014, and 2022 did not happen when President Trump was in The White House. Thus, from his perspective, President Putin starts with a clean slate regarding implementation of and adherence to a cease fire. A simplified cease fire format enables political diagnostics far easier than does a complicated cease fire.
Want buy-in from President Trump? Have a cease fire where each morning he can easily digest its and his success or failure. Did anyone die today? Did anyone violate the cease fire? Simple questions and simple answers. Most critically for President Trump, he can view simple solutions- call each head of state and instruct them to instruct their respective armed forces to stop engagement. Load the cease fire with many co-existing and co-equal components which by definition are complicated to evaluate and then to solve, and President Trump will promptly seek an off-ramp for the Trump-Vance Administration (2025-2029).
The Trump-Vance Administration views a cease fire as one where each side agrees on a date and time to unilaterally instruct the respective armed forces to not militarily engage. Other than the cease fire including a distinct period of time- one month, six months, one year, or no end date, there is nothing else to be included.
From the perspective of President Trump, the implementation of the cease fire is the foundation for everything else. The cease fire does not include issues to be negotiated to foster peace, lasting peace, just peace, or any other type of peace. That process will take a long time. President Trump is focusing upon the here and the now.
And, again, President Zelensky is misreading President Trump. Oops, he did it again.
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