Zelenskyy Criticizes Trump in Danish Speech as Diplomatic Talks Begin
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Wise is presented as a transparent financial tool enabling global money management without hidden fees or inflated exchange rates, aligning with users’ global lifestyles. This section is framed alongside a critical analysis of international diplomacy, focusing on President Volodymyr Zelensky’s speech to the Danish Parliament in Copenhagen. Zelensky emphasizes Ukraine’s right to sovereignty, condemns Russia’s false narrative that Ukraine is part of Russia, and highlights the danger of a reconfigured European security architecture that would erase Eastern Europe. He contrasts this with a simultaneous, deceptive peace negotiation in Abu Dhabi involving Jared Kushner and Steve Whitkopf, who are accused of promoting Russian interests and diverting military assets from Ukraine to the Middle East. Zelensky denounces the lack of trust between powers and the slow pace of peace deals, citing historical examples like the Abraham Accords and USMCA. He commends Denmark for its principled, empathetic foreign policy rooted in mutual responsibility—calling it “Semphancy”—as a vital model for global cooperation. Meanwhile, Russian negotiators dismiss European involvement, claiming Europe is complicit in conflict and that Ukraine is a “sick abscess” needing surgical removal. The narrative underscores how global conflicts are deeply interlinked, with military resources diverted and defense systems in Eastern Europe left vulnerable. The underlying message is that true peace requires transparency, accountability, and a rejection of imperialist or revisionist narratives, especially when power dynamics are manipulated for profit or political gain.
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Because at the same time you Crane President Zelenski was speaking there, you had Jared Kushner and Steve Whitkopf in Abu Dhabi doing a fake peace negotiation, dubbed a trilateral discussion between the United States, Russia, and I suppose you Crane, the real discussion was Kushner Whitkopf in Russia talking about a new European security architecture in the image of what Russia wants and how you can carve up the borders of Ukraine and Donbass and hand it over to Russia. Of course, Ukraine's president Zelenski spoke out against that at the speech in Copenhagen and so the side by side view of Kushner and Whitkopf in Abu Dhabi trying to throw Ukraine and frankly all of Europe's security architecture in the garbage while Zelenski was in Copenhagen. A country in Denmark that was under a country that is Denmark, Copenhagen being the main capital, that is under attack by the Trump regime is a important symbol as well. Zelenski addressed it right away in his speech. He said when someone in America wanted Greenland, maybe he didn't fully realize what he was actually trying to say is he wanted to be Danish. Sheerplay this clip. He when someone in America wanted Greenland, he didn't even realize that what he really wanted was not the land but to become a little more Danish. And who knows maybe that was exactly what he needed. More from Ukraine president Zelenski addressing the Danish parliament in Copenhagen over here. He talks about how no one knows what the hell Donald Trump is going to be doing one day to the next. And when Donald Trump threatens to bomb Iran, not only does the rest of the world worry how that's going to impact not just Iran and the Middle East but the rest of the world. That's in a global crisis because of Donald Trump's capriciousness and maliciousness. But it also impacts like where are the weapons for NATO? Where are the weapons to protect Ukraine? Watch what Zelenski says here. Another very powerful moment. Let's play it. Now as we keep worrying about whether the United States will bomb Iran again and how many countries, how many people and could suffer because of it. We are not just waiting to see what happens next in that region. We are actually waiting to see what happens to our own societies because of price spikes, because of shortages of weapons we need for our defense, not offensive. We are speaking about defense, air defense and we can already feel these shortages. And when we look for Patriot missiles to protect our people, our citizens, communities, from Russian ballistic attacks, we face the same problem again and again. The missiles are going to the Middle East and what do we have? Empty Patriot systems and Russian ballistic missiles that in the most cases we have nothing to shoot down with. So today everyone in the world can see just how connected everything is. In our world, nothing stays local, nothing, especially wars and injustice. More from Ukraine's president Zelenski right here saying that in Russia goes on and on and on about they need security guarantees. And Zelenski is like, for what? You invaded us? Why do you need security? You need security guarantees from us? We just want you to stop invading us. So what are you trying to say here? Well, what Russia is trying to say is that they want a new European security architecture so that Eastern Europe doesn't exist anywhere. That's what Russia's been saying. I'll show you what Medinsky Russia's top negotiator was saying while he was in Abu Dhabi and Medinsky Russia's top negotiator was also saying Europe is not allowed to participate in a discussion where Russia wanted to negotiate with the US and Ukraine about the European security architecture. Here play this clip though, Zelenski. We keep hearing again that Russia supposedly needs security guarantees. Even though no one has attacked Russia for many decades. And since the Second World War, Moscow has not gone through even one decade without starting a war or using military force against another country. So when the Russians now talk about a security architecture for themselves or about security guarantees for Russia, they are hardly talking about real security and peace. What they really want is to freely interfere in the affairs of other countries and to use force whenever they want and to make sure that no one can support liberty inside Russia because Putin wants to keep his personal power forever and pass on his imperialist and in many ways simply fascist views to the next generations. Or from Ukraine, President Zelensky, and I should let you know again, Zelensky is also posting these clips from his personal social media accounts. And not only did he give this powerful speech in Parliament and Danish Parliament of Copenhagen, he also is sending these clips out as what he wants the world to see. This deserves a lot more attention in my view. Ukraine President Zelensky then says, "I just want to thank Denmark. Thank you for standing with us and always being by our side." And he says, "I feel that every time I speak with met," referring to Mette Fredrickson, who is the Prime Minister of Denmark, that we know how your intentions are so good. And we love the Danish spirit. By the way, we love the Danish spirit over here at the Midas Touch Network. I know so many people from Denmark, from Copenhagen, through cities throughout Denmark, who are Midas mighty. We should do a Midas Touch Network in Denmark. We're definitely doing one in Europe. We're definitely doing one in Australia like we got one in Canada. We're going to do one in the UK. So anyway, we're coming there soon. Anyway, here, play this clip. Thank you for giving us the confidence that at any moment Denmark stands with us, with Ukraine, with our people, with our children, with our soldiers, and that Denmark truly wants the best for Ukraine. There is something really special about this feeling, knowing that someone truly wishes you well. I feel this every time I speak with Mette, and every time I speak with people from your great country, with journalist for example, or yesterday at the university, it was great meeting, or today here in Parliament, with representatives of all, all political parties who truly stand together when it comes to security, and also with representatives of Danish companies, with whom we are working so closely. Every time I feel the same thing, your intentions are truly good, and I think it's because this is simply who you are, and because you understand something very simple, but very wise, treat others the way you would want to be treated. This is part of your spirit. What you call, in Denmark, "Semphancy." Sorry for pronunciation. The belief that we are responsible not only for ourselves, but for others too.
in today's world, treating others this way is truly priceless. Thank you for that. Thank you for being Denmark, a country that acts with heart and confidence, a country that we in Ukraine and everyone in Europe, sure, can always count on. More from Ukraine, President Zelensky right here, saying look, Putin wants to just keep his personal power forever. That's what he's looking for, play this clip. Side Russia, because Putin wants to keep his personal power forever and pass on his imperialist and in many ways simply fascist views to the next generations. More from Zelensky at a speech, Copenhagen, the Danish parliament, he says, look, we wish we had you as our neighbor, Denmark, we we rather than having Russia here play this clip. And there is one thing we might regret today that Ukraine and Denmark do not share a border. You have much better neighbors than we do after all we we have Russia as our neighbor. And having a neighbor like Denmark is something, something any country would dream of right now. More from Zelensky over here about how all of these missiles that could be used to protect Ukraine, it's going to the Middle East. And what he also means is it's going to Netanyahu at this point. We know the remaining interceptors have been sent from Texas in the United States to the Netanyahu regime. By the way, we'll try to do some more videos on this. Gotti Eisenkopf who leads the Yashar party, the main opposition to Lakud, Netanyahu's party is Lakud. Gotti Eisenkopf's the former IDF leader. And he's been calling out Netanyahu, Netanyahu's what's called a caretaker government right now because Netanyahu is about to be out of power. Gotti Eisenkopf and his coalition government with the Arab block. It's a Yashar party joining with the Arab block. They're about to be in power. And Gotti Eisenkopf's like, look, you have the Masad and you have Netanyahu. They're trying to now provoke war with Iran in order to destroy the transfer of power away from Netanyahu. So I just want to point that other development. All this is happening simultaneously. So I just want to contextualize the different events that are happening as Trump is sending more weapons to the Netanyahu regime. Here is what Zelensky says. Let's play it. Face the same problem again and again. The missiles are going to the middle east. And what do we have? Empty petrol systems and Russian ballistic missiles that in the most cases, we have nothing to shoot down with. So then you have Jared Kushner and Abu Dhabi at the same time you have Zelensky and Copenhagen. Abu Dhabi is one of the Emirates, part of the United Arab Emirates. You've got Abu Dhabi, you've got Dubai, you've got other Emirates as well. And so Kushner's there. Kushner has a lot of personal business deals with Abu Dhabi that enrich himself. Abu Dhabi does lots of deals with Whitkopf and Trump as well. They do the world liberty financial. They have a lot of other deals together. Also Abu Dhabi was the cut out, the middle man, if you will, between Russia and an LNG product in Alaska, the main LNG facility, billions and billions of dollars. Russia is basically controlling LNG in Alaska through this Abu Dhabi carve out and the Trump regime is letting that happen. So when Kushner and Whitkopf are in Abu Dhabi, think about the conversations that are probably happening about their own personal enrichment in my opinion. So anyway, Jared Kushner then announces and Abu Dhabi, guess what? Me and Whitkopf, we're going to be going to Moscow again. That's where we're going. Yeah, we know, we know you love Putin. It's like the 10-time Whitkopf has been in Moscow. We get it. We get it. You're going to meet with Yuri Ushakab. You're going to meet with Karel Demitriyev. And then Whitkopf's going to go mad in the air. It's such an honor. You're such a humanitarian. And then Melania is going to go, it just wanted to let you, I'm not going to do the Melania voice. Melania is like, thank you. We've made sure that all of the Russian children that Ukraine stole this, so what Melania says, have been returned to Russia. If you can't give some of those Ukrainian children back, but it's a both sides issue. Melania always wants to make it a both sides issue, and there's no evidence that Ukraine is stolen Russian children. There's a lot of evidence that Russia has kidnapped Ukrainian children and then sent them into war against Ukraine. I digress. Here's Kushner saying we're going to Moscow play this clip. Peace of prisoners, which we're going to finalize the numbers tomorrow. Steven and I are going to travel to Moscow tomorrow to meet with President Putin to go over what was discussed today and try to make more progress on some of the issues that we discussed, because we see some openings and some opportunities there. After that, we're going to fly to Dublin and we're going to be with President Zelensky to debrief with him and further explore some of the ideas that we came up with here today. One of the more from Kushner over here saying, Russian say they want more progress before Putin and Zelensky meet face to face. Why? Donald Trump promised us in 2024 that he knew Putin so well that in 24 hours, he would be able to get a peace deal. He said, I know Putin, I know Zelensky, I would just do abracadabra. Trump says he knew the best words, no one knew the words, quite as good as Trump's words, and that he would be able to bring peace in 24 hours. But I guess Putin doesn't want to do that yet. Is that what you're saying? You're playing this clip. I think that what again, just to be transparent, I think what the Russians have said is they'd like to see more progress made before that happens. I think that clearly there's not great trust or love between the leaders. So I think that if we can find a pathway to a range and I will say this too, these deals do take time. These are hard deals. When we did the Abraham Accords, it took three and a half years. We did the USMCA that took two and a half years. The Gaza, more from Kushner over here, saying some things are clearly not working, which is why we're in the 50 year of the longest war Europe has seen in a long time. Play this clip. We see those proposals in a good way. The reality is, is there's no trust right now between the sides, and that's to be expected after a conflict like this. But we should rely on interests and incentives and a good architecture in order to do that. And the reality is, is there are some good structures in Europe that we can build upon and our plan is to build upon them, but something's clearly not working, which is why we're in the 50 year of the longest war that you're seeing in a long time and a very costly and deadly and horrific war. So also, who is this guy? I know he's Donald Trump's son-in-law, this freaking grifter, but nobody confirmed you. Where's Marco Rubio? I did test Marco Rubio, at least he's the secretary of state. Why is the president's loser son-in-law? Like he's a loser. You're watching him. Whitcoff, Donald Trump's scumbag real estate guy from Manhattan, who's his current business partner in world-liberty financial, this weird crypto scheme in my view, where Pakistan has sent money, and Abu Dhabi has sent money, and Qatar has sent money, and there's always people who are sending money to world-liberative, and so what the hell are we even doing here right now? So you have Kushner and Whitcoff over there, and Abu Dhabi, and then Kushner's like, so if Europe could just identify one person to speak on their behalf, one person, I don't know, if there was someone like I don't know who, like the European Commission president, like Ursula von der Leyen, is that by going, "Who could it be?" Here, play this clip of Kushner. If you could identify one person to speak on that behalf, what do you think? If you could identify one person to speak on their behalf, that would be a bigger achievement than getting the Russians to include them in the negotiation. I think that right now, Steve and I, for the last year, have really gotten to work very closely with a lot of our different European colleagues, and I think that, you know, any things he's being so clever, any things he's like speaking in deeply, he's just a fool. That's, the reason why it's not settling, Russia does not want to have a ceasefire. They've been very clear what they want, which is Ukraine. They think that Ukraine is not a real country and it's Russia. That's their view, okay? And so whenever these negotiations happen, Putin sends a historian. Why does he send a historian? Because he tells Putin's version of history, which is Ukraine is in a country. Ukraine belongs to Russia. You could go back a lot in history and actually say Ukraine existed before Russia. You could go back to the 15th, 14th century. You could go back even further. But no, in Putin's view, there's Russia. Ukraine is part of it. There's no Eastern Europe. So when Putin talks about security architecture of Europe, that discussion is code for we want all of Eastern Europe. We want the Soviet Union reconstitute it. That's Putin's goal. And Putin sent a letter to former president Biden in 2021 talking about European security architecture. And Putin's view is that NATO, Europe, Eastern Europe, which Putin views as a fiction, Putin doesn't view Eastern Europe as a thing. So like Poland and all these countries in Eastern Europe, he views as not a thing saying that this is encroaching on Russia and that this security architecture.
texture needs to change or else we have to invade Ukraine. The language that is used by the Russian Medinsky who's like the negotiator, they refer to Ukraine as like the abscess of a sick being. That's where they refer to it as the abscess where the pus comes out of. That's how they describe it. That there's this sick Europe that did this Eastern Europe which doesn't belong to it and that sickness, the abscess is Ukraine and that needs to have surgery. That's the language of Medinsky in Europe. That's how they talk about. So there's no peace unless you give up not just Ukraine, but Eastern Europe. And what Ukraine says is we're okay with the ceasefire right now with the current borders that exist. We don't want to have to give up the areas that have been taken over. But we can live with that right now as a ceasefire. Russia says, if you do that, that's just going to mean Zelensky will rearm and get more weapons. So we don't want to do that. Zelensky is that's not true. You invaded us. We need security guarantees and the war along the current border. We don't want to give up more of Donbass because Russia will just use that to then keep on going and going. And there's critical terrain from a military strategy standpoint that Russia has not been able to take over. And if they took over this area in Donbass, they would then have a more direct route to Kiev and other areas and Ukraine. I just want to let you know what the broader discussion is here. So you understand in detail what's really happening here. And this is honestly like we need people who speak in the actual language of diplomatic parlance to describe what the actual issues are here, right? So it's intractable. And so the view is if you show strength to Putin, this is the thinking. If you show strength to Putin and you arm Ukraine at some point there'll be enough pressure amongst the people of Russia to say you got to stop this war, you got to stop this war because it's crushing the people of Russia. If Putin thinks he doesn't have any safeguard, he doesn't have any pressure, he'll just keep on going and going and going. And that's why there's that view. You just got to keep the pressure on them because Putin's ambitions are not to ever have a ceasefire. Anyway, I wanted to explain that to you because look, the head of the Russian delegation Medinsky says we did not communicate with the European representatives. We don't really understand what capacity they are here, meaning in Abu Dhabi, like why would Europe be here? Because you're talking about European security architecture. Maybe that's why they're there. The head of the Russian delegation Medinsky then said the conflict in Ukraine has shown that the entire security system in Europe that existed after yalta after pot stamp functions very poorly. Essentially, the entire organism is sick and Ukraine is the story. I knew I knew he said it somewhere. Essentially, the entire organism is sick and Ukraine is simply where the abscess burst open. Therefore, it needs to be treated. So, if you're asking why would Europe represent it as be there? Because you're saying things like that, which involves Europe. Medinsky then said every inch of Russian land will be returned to Russia one way or the other and he considers Ukraine Russian land. We have not received a single peace initiative or a single concrete peace proposal from European countries. Medinsky says therefore, it is unclear what there is to discuss if they came here as tourists, let them socialize in the hotel lobby bar. I think that as soon as they're conscious wakes up at the moment, they can become participants in peace negotiations. Until then, they are participants in the group deception of the Ukrainian people and in fact, accomplices in the death of the civilian population. Then, Medinsky said we have no idea what the Europeans are here. They need to be in the lobby and then said that Europe shouldn't be there at all and kicked them out and then Kushner didn't say no, Europe gets to be here. Kushner then had Europe basically be in the lobby of where the negotiations were taking place. Finally, Jared Kushner said on Zelinsky Putin meeting and a taking longer than he expected. He's like these deals are all very long. Think about how long the Abraham Accords took. It took three and a half years. He goes, "Think about the USMCA." That took two and a half years. You're bragging about the USMCA, the United States, Mexico, Canada agreement that Donald Trump ripped up and then attacked Canada and say they're the 51st state. So you're citing that and the Abraham Accords, you're acting like there was some major accomplishment right there when there's war all over the Middle East right now where you have Saudi Arabia striking the Houthis in Yemen, Yemen responding, striking deep in Riyadh in Yambu and Abkhak and other areas in Saudi Arabia. Kushner goes, "The Gaza deal took a year." The Gaza deal as though what you brought peace there in the genocide is still ongoing right now and Israel also has taken what it calls security zones in southern Lebanon and Syria and in other areas which is just it taking territory and taking it over that doesn't belong to them and say, "Oh, those are our security zones." That's what that is. Here, let me show you what Kushner said. Let's play this quick. So our hard deals. The Gaza deal took a year. So these deals are very hard and complex and this one is very emotional, very complex. It's a very hot war. And so I think that it's complicated, but what we see now and we've worked very hard at this for the last bit is we see all the different ingredients to make a deal and we just have to figure out how can we refine those ingredients, organize those ingredients, and then create the right structure and the right pathway to do it. And I do believe at the right time it will be very important for the leaders to come together to finalize because it's really only the leaders that can make those final decisions. But in the meantime, we continue to engage very directly with President Zelensky. We spoke with him last week. We speak to his team every day. We're going to see him in a couple of days. And we also engage very closely with with President Putin and with his team who we're speaking to on a daily basis as well. So I think that that'll be a critical step. I think we have a little bit more work we need to do to get it there. And again, it's, you know, we are pushing a boulder uphill. This is a very, very hard conflict. Well, I hope you appreciated this more comprehensive overview, not just giving you Zelensky speech, but I want to, I want to embed you in the negotiations. I want you to really understand the dynamics of what's at play at a sophisticated level and the minus might is a sophisticated audience. So I want you to understand not some sound bite that corporate news does, but to really understand the dynamics to bring you in. And then you can see how dumb Kushner and Whitcoff are when you actually understand what's really going on here. Anyway, thanks for watching. We appreciate you and oh, check out store.mitustouch.com. We got great new merch out. We've got lawyer up gear. We got blue wave gear. Have you seen people wearing it? Is these these these these clothes are everywhere? Have you seen it? Thanks for watching. Appreciate it. Oh, WTF America. The way out of this hell get that awesome. It's finally here. WTF America. 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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivered a powerful speech to the Danish Parliament in Copenhagen, emphasizing Ukraine’s need for security, rejecting Russian claims of needing guarantees, and highlighting global instability.
Zelensky criticizes Russia’s narrative that Ukraine is part of its territory, calling it a “sick organism” with Ukraine as an “abscess,” and denounces the idea of a new European security architecture that would erase Eastern Europe.
Contrasting Zelensky’s speech with events in Abu Dhabi, where Jared Kushner and Steve Whitkopf hosted a fabricated peace negotiation with Russia, exposes a parallel of deception: one side promotes peace while the other undermines European security and arms Ukraine.
The speech underscores deep distrust in U.S.-led negotiations, citing slow progress in peace deals, long timelines (e.g., Abraham Accords, USMCA), and the absence of real trust or progress between Russia and the West.
Zelensky expresses gratitude for Denmark’s strong, principled support, praising the Danish spirit of mutual responsibility and empathy—what he calls “Semphancy”—as a model for international cooperation.
Russia’s negotiator, Medinsky, dismisses European participation in peace talks, claiming Europe isn’t serious and accusing them of being “accomplices” in civilian deaths, while asserting all of Eastern Europe must return to Russia.
The global interconnectivity of conflicts is highlighted
Summary:
Wise is presented as a transparent financial tool enabling global money management without hidden fees or inflated exchange rates, aligning with users’ global lifestyles. This section is framed alongside a critical analysis of international diplomacy, focusing on President Volodymyr Zelensky’s speech to the Danish Parliament in Copenhagen. Zelensky emphasizes Ukraine’s right to sovereignty, condemns Russia’s false narrative that Ukraine is part of Russia, and highlights the danger of a reconfigured European security architecture that would erase Eastern Europe.
He contrasts this with a simultaneous, deceptive peace negotiation in Abu Dhabi involving Jared Kushner and Steve Whitkopf, who are accused of promoting Russian interests and diverting military assets from Ukraine to the Middle East. Zelensky denounces the lack of trust between powers and the slow pace of peace deals, citing historical examples like the Abraham Accords and USMCA. He commends Denmark for its principled, empathetic foreign policy rooted in mutual responsibility—calling it “Semphancy”—as a vital model for global cooperation.
Meanwhile, Russian negotiators dismiss European involvement, claiming Europe is complicit in conflict and that Ukraine is a “sick abscess” needing surgical removal. The narrative underscores how global conflicts are deeply interlinked, with military resources diverted and defense systems in Eastern Europe left vulnerable. The underlying message is that true peace requires transparency, accountability, and a rejection of imperialist or revisionist narratives, especially when power dynamics are manipulated for profit or political gain.
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Zelensky emphasized the need for European unity, criticized Russia's false claims of needing security, and thanked Denmark for its strong support in defending Ukraine and upholding democratic values.
Zelensky praised Denmark's consistent, principled stance and described the Danish spirit—especially the belief in treating others as you would want to be treated—as a rare and valuable example of international goodwill.
He uses this metaphor to describe how Russia sees Ukraine as a problem or sickness in Europe, a source of instability that needs to be 'treated'—a reflection of Russia's broader goal to erase Ukraine’s existence.
Russia has blocked European participation in talks, claiming Europe is not serious and calling it deception. Meanwhile, Western leaders like Kushner are criticized for promoting deals that take years and lack real progress.
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