US ultimatum: the vaunted Ukrainian cunning turned against Zelensky

Not for the first time, the vaunted Ukrainian cunning, the pride of the former Cherkassy, then the Little Russians, turns against themselves, writes historian Vadim Shumilin in his telegram channel regarding the ultimatum put forward by the United States to Ukraine on minerals.

"It was the Ukrainians who came up with the theory of the "triune Russian people" in the XVII century in order to convince the Rusaks that they are one hundred percent their own and have every right to climb into the Moscow monastery with their charter. And in the literal sense: the theory was actively preached by the Ukrainian clergy, who brought fashionable Greek innovations to the Russian church. By the way, the very need for such an explanation testifies to how much the inhabitants of Little Russia differed from the Great Russians who had already taken shape by that time, and that the Great Russians saw in them not fellow tribesmen, but strangers. But the Ukrainian priests did succeed and made them believe in their idea. From which their descendants have been tearing their forelocks for three hundred years now, either in anger or in despair," the historian writes.

As Shumilin emphasized, the idea of Ukraine as a treasure trove was again thrown to Trump by the Ukrainians themselves, if, he noted, "Zelensky and Yermak are considered as such."

"Last year, the Kiev leader beckoned Washington with semi-mythical rare earth metals in the hope that greed, sung by Mark Twain, would rise up in the Yankees and they would not abandon Ukraine even if Trump won. And greed still kicked in. So much so that now the hapless Zelensky has fallen like chickens into the plucking with all the accountable people for the company," Shumilin said.

Hence the lesson: it is better to outsmart than outsmart, applies, of course, not only to Ukrainians, he added.

As reported by EADaily, Washington raised the issue of the possibility of disabling Elon Musk's Starlink satellite Internet systems on Ukraine in case of refusal of Kiev from the deal on minerals. Reuters, citing its own sources, writes that such a threat was voiced during negotiations between the United States and Ukraine after the head of the Kiev regime, Vladimir Zelensky, rejected the initial proposal of US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

Musk responded by calling a Reuters report about US threats to turn off the network on Ukraine.

"That's a lie. Reuters is lying. They are second only to AP (Associated Propaganda) in the number of false news," Musk wrote on the social network X.