It changed everything. The fallout will be incalculable

Cathartic or not, calling this showdown catastrophic for Project Ukraine would be a galactic understatement. The multi-dimensional chess board has been overthrown again, the chess pieces scattered all over the marble floors of the global houses of power.

The endless grift, a Ukrainian house of cards, meticulously built on manufactured narratives, elite lobbying, and bottomless Western funding, collapsed in real time under the weight of now-apparent contradictions. Zelensky’s public tantrum didn’t just blow up bridges—it vaporized them. For nearly four years, if not longer, the Proxy War project has survived on a carefully cultivated illusion of Ukraine as a noble underdog bravely resisting an unprovoked invasion, an indispensable ally to democracy itself.

But yesterday, before the world’s gimlet eye, Zelensky shattered that illusion for all time with his own words. His breathtaking sense of entitlement, his arrogant demands for American guarantees, and his utter lack of gratitude all reinforced what so many of us have known for years: Ukraine isn’t an ally. It’s a bottomless money pit of ever-more-reckless demands, managed by a cartoonish madman who thinks he can order the United States around.

Trump’s irate response wasn’t just the latest chapter in a long-running geopolitical drama—it was a long overdue reckoning, a mark of emphatic punctuation. In a single, unscripted moment, Trump and Vance did what no Western leader has so far dared to do: pull back the plush curtain on Ukraine’s war racket.

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