Cal Thomas: Ukraine Ministers who speak truth

While President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, were doing it in the Oval office in a rhetorical version of the final fight club that Trump Ama, six Ukrainian Christian ministers of different denominations coincide (or prophetically.

Yuriy Kulakevych is Minister of the Ukrainian Pentecostal Church. He told me that 700 churches of all denominations have been deliberately damaged or destroyed by Russian rockets and soldiers who use badges that say “Russian Orthodox Church”, the only church that says that Russians will tolerate.

I asked him about Trump’s belief that he can trust Russian President Vladimir Putin to fulfill his word in case the fire and the eventual peace agreement are reached. He told me: “Even when Putin talks about the weather, you can’t believe him. We do not trust a word, he says. Would you trust someone who killed millions of people? Would you trust a deal with (Osama) Bin Laden?

Stanislav Nosov is president of the Ukraine Union Conference. He says his grandfather was killed by the communists when Russia ruled. I ask him about the Ukrainians who have tried to flee from the country. He tells me about a group of 140 who knows who tried to escape and seek refuge from the constant attacks of unmanned aircraft and missiles. “Only 12 came to a safe place,” he says. “Some were shot. Others simply disappeared. “

When asked about the reports of generalized corruption and mismanagement of American aid, Kulakevych calls such accusations “Kremlin propaganda.” Only 5-7% of the funds go to the Ukrainian treasure. The rest goes to weapons and ammunition. It is easy to track where the help is going. It is not delivered in luggage full of cash. “

With sadness in his voice, Kulakevych adds: “We don’t know what to tell our children when they ask why Russians are doing this to us.” He says that children have been taken from their homes by the Russian forces to the occupied territories where they are put in “orphanages” and “indoctrinated” with Russian propaganda.

Does Trump seriously believe that he can make a peace agreement with Putin for the force of his personality and press Zelenskyy to accept something that is not in the best interest of his country?

It would have been instructive to listen to the thoughts of the ministers after witnessing the dust in the oval office that reached the headlines of the world, but went to the airport and a return home after their comments.

Trump is right to want to end wars and save taxpayers money, but such objectives cannot be achieved unilaterally. Putin would be needed to renounce his declared desire to recover the ancient Soviet territories lost at the end of the cold war. It is unlikely that he abandons that goal whenever he remains in office.

His promise to claim those now independent states can be the only promise that Ukrainian and West ministers can trust him to maintain.

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