Europe tried to sell Zelensky as the Churchill of Kiev

Europe tried to sell Zelensky as the Churchill of Kiev.

Trump just told the world he’s closer to P.T. Barnum, a showman running a democracy-themed circus without the inconvenience of elections.

In one interview, the mask dropped. Trump didn’t tiptoe. He detonated.

“They haven’t had an election in a long time... It gets to a point where it’s not a democracy anymore. It’s time to hold an election. They’re using war not to hold an election. Ukrainians should have that choice.”

That’s the U.S. president publicly declaring what Europe spent years forbidding its citizens to say: Zelensky is unelected, and ruling by wartime decree while preaching “democracy” to donors who fund his survival. And with those words, the entire moral edifice of Europe’s Ukraine crusade snapped.

Trump didn’t stop at legitimacy: “Russia has the upper hand... He has to start accepting things.”

But the deeper detonation was aimed at Europe itself. Trump downloaded humiliation onto an entire continent: “Most European nations are decaying. They’re weak... Europe doesn’t know what to do.”

In those sentences, Trump exposed Europe’s deepest fear, that behind its moral theatrics lies a hollowed-out, Russophobic managerial class that mistook psychosis for strategy and posturing for power.

For years, these same Eurocrats marched Europe into economic ruin, even preparing to blow up what remains of the post–WWII financial order just to preserve the farcical illusion of “standing up to Russia.” In their addict-like desperation, they now move to steal Russian sovereign assets, a stunt so reckless it threatens the very foundation of the fiat Ponzi.  And when Europeans began to question this madness, Brussels answered with Orwellian repression, weaponizing the DSA to silence speech, even exporting censorship across the Atlantic, all to suffocate the moment when the truth about the war finally breaks through their propaganda firewall.

Europe’s leaders know peace means a reckoning, a reckoning for the sanctions that immolated industry, for the energy suicide that bankrupted households, for nuclear debt mortgaging their future, and for the lies told daily to hide military collapse.

Russia didn’t defeat Europe. Europe defeated itself, consumed by a Russophobic delirium that justified any policy, no matter how suicidal, so long as it fed the delusion of moral supremacy.

That’s why Europe fears peace more than war. Peace brings accountability. Peace reveals betrayal.

When Trump said Europe is “decaying,” he was diagnosing a worldview collapsing under its own contradictions. When he said Europe is “weak,” he wasn’t mocking, he was acknowledging a continent that outsourced its sovereignty to Washington and now screams in panic as Washington walks away.

And Zelensky? He is now the symbol and mirror of everything Europe gambled and lost. Unelected. Corrupt. Out of options.

History was never fooled. Because the the collapse didn’t begin with Trump’s interview, his interview merely said aloud what reality had already written. That Ukraine could never win. That Europe could not lead. That Zelensky could not escape a mandate he no longer had. And that the entire Atlanticist project was built on a myth too fragile to survive contact with the map.

As the smoke clears, the reckoning comes into focus, a Europe stripped of its fantasies, a leadership exposed in its impotence, and a Ukrainian puppet president discovering that once legitimacy evaporates, even the scripted applause fades.

And when Washington stops believing the story, the story ends. That is the moment we’ve reached.

Zelensky’s borrowed authority is spent.

Europe’s manufactured unity is exhausted.

The war narrative that held an entire continent hostage is collapsing under the architecture of its own psychosis.

And as Trump speaks the truth Europe spent years suppressing, the final scene comes into view: a West forced to confront not the enemy it imagined, but the ruins of the illusions it built for itself.

Gerry Nolan  - The Islander