It should be transparently obvious by now. Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has shifted his tin cup strategy from directly asking for money, to presenting himself as the world’s leading arms manufacturer. In essence, Zelenskyy has drone pencils in his tin cup.
Keep watching and we will all start to see this grifting business model in play.
Earlier today Zelenskyy said, “President Trump and I had a meeting where we discussed general matters. After that, our negotiating teams held a separate, long meeting. The agreement is as follows: we will brief the European side and discuss these details with them; the Americans will speak with the Russians; and in ten days, we will come back with views and results in some shape or form.
As for a trilateral Ukraine-U.S.-Russia meeting, the American side proposed preparing it and meeting at the technical level. We are waiting for the United States to propose a date. The United States proposed the United Arab Emirates as the venue for such a meeting.
There are concrete agreements regarding Patriot licenses. At our meeting, President Trump stressed that he had made his final decision: Ukraine will receive licenses to produce Patriot missiles. (read more)
Now put the lead-in paragraphs as an overlay against that statement. Zelenskyy wants to organize his corrupt financial system, specifically the income aspect, around Ukraine as the world’s leading arms dealer.
Obviously, this business model provides numerous benefits for everyone inside the Ukraine govt operation whose lifestyle and affluence are dependent on the inflow of massive amounts of money.
If Zelenskyy can get the Patriot Missile licenses, then he can expand his business operation to build and sell Patriots’ to Germany (have been begging for them) and beyond. Zelenskyy becomes the EU hub for EU-NATO arms manufacturing and production. He’s not stupid. If the USA pulls back from EU-NATO, Zelenskyy steps in to fill the void. That appears to be his overall plan.
Put that perspective into the overview and consider how Russian President Vladimir Putin reviews the future landscape, against the background of increased calls for a negotiated ceasefire and/or peace agreement.
Do we think Putin wants to accept Ukraine as a major producer of NATO weapons, right next door? Not likely. As Zelenskyy seeks to expand his business model, it’s exactly the opposite of what Putin/Trump would view as steps toward a settlement of hostility.
Zelenskyy has asked his benefactors for another $27 billion toward his expanded operations. However, as internal NABU corruption investigators keep finding massive amounts of siphoned cash in the offices of his officials, ex. recently discovering over $140 million dollars in cash hidden in Arsen Zhumadilov’s offices, the EU-NATO partners are telling Zelenskyy the optics just don’t look good.
An interim distribution of €6.6 billion has been approved. After paying indulgencies to the Ukraine govt insiders, there should be around €5 billion for enhanced economic support, which includes funding the Ukraine headhunters to scour the countryside and conscript those unwilling to pay fees to avoid the meatgrinder.
Meanwhile, South Korea is furious at Zelenskyy for giving a speech at the United Nations where he told the world two North Korean soldiers were captured on the battlefield and handed over to South Korea.
“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky broke a confidentiality agreement by disclosing that Ukraine had sent North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea, Seoul’s president said on Thursday.” […] “I do not know why the Ukrainian side broke the agreement and made the matter public, but it is very disappointing,” President Lee Jae Myung said. {source}
Zelenskyy doesn’t care about such diplomatic minutiae, and besides, cocaine is a hell of a drug.
Zelenskyy really needs the cash flow in order to keep going. Outside of the government officials Zelenskyy is obligated to pay there’s a consortium of NGO’s and ancillary western entities the money needs to keep funding. Zelenskyy named some of the beneficiaries in comments following his United Nations rally:
“I thank all the experts and leaders of U.S. think tanks for the meeting: John Walters, Luke Coffey, Robert Doar, Frederick Kempe, Jenna Ben-Yehuda, Shelby Magid, Geoffrey Pyatt, Paula Dobriansky, Ambassador John Herbst, Andrew L. Peek, Evelyn Farkas, Cindy McCain, Kimberly Kagan, Frederick Kagan, Carrie Filipetti, James Jay Carafano, Michael Froman, Daniel Baer, Philip Luck, Alina Polyakova, Kurt Volker, Eileen Donahoe, and Joshua Rudolph.” {Source}
Ukraine's anti-corruption bureau raided ex-procurement chief Arsen Zhumadilov's offices, seizing over $140 million in cash hidden in refrigerator boxes, one labelled "For the Servant of the People," a jab at Zelensky's old TV show and party.
It comes a week after the New York… pic.twitter.com/hf7MMs2nS1
— British Intel (@TheBritishIntel) September 24, 2026
At our meeting, President Trump stressed that he had made his final decision: Ukraine will receive licenses to produce Patriot missiles.
Now why would President Trump agree to that when he wants to end the war??? That doesn’t make any sense to me to give Zelensky the sole right to license our Patriot missiles??? The grifter is being given more grift from President Trump? Someone explain how that makes any sense? TIA
Having a license may have restrictions, and may not include the technology necessary to produce the Patriots. For example, having a license to produce arms that cannot be sold to certain countries, and also consider that these are strictly defensive, so they will protect Europe against non-existent attacks, but could protect Ukraine makes some sense.
Also, the license pays the US without any need to produce anything or sell any Patriots. So, you want some, buy from Z.
Actually it’s a brilliant strategy by PDT. Tell the little cokehead nazi “sure go ahead and try to build Patriot missiles”. Of course the manufacturing facilities will turn in to smoking craters when Russia smokes them with hypersonic weapons of its own, PDT has always been about more bang for the buck.
Z-man says a lot of things. I think sometimes he declares things that he wants to be true in the hopes of forcing that outcome. When this is confirmed by our government, then I will expend brain cells on it.
I don’t know if President Trump agreed or not, but it looks like that comment by little z-man was worth 6.6 billion.
We could give all sorts of weaponry to Canada and Mexico, so that we can see things from Putin’s viewpoint.
dont worry… even though the admin’s words AND ACTIONS keep indicating they want more war, there is a double secret 5D chess game afoot to bring peace…
Usually if a public figure is misrepresented by another, clarification from the public figure is in order so that people don’t get the wrong idea and act on it.
I think this is the non-sarcastic way of saying what Muley Bulley is saying. (Correct me if I’m wrong.)
However it is phrased, I remain puzzled.
If Ukrain has a license to build a defensive missile then the specs are already out on the dark web and we are done with the system Raytheon, Westinghouse, and GE have moved on probably lasers or particle beams.
Do you really believe patriot missles would defend against our systems?
We will soon know for sure, but I’m quite sure Zelenskyy is lying.
In that picture above, it looks a bit as though President Putin has some facework done. (not that that is either here nor there)
And Russia certainly has some input on that matter….
Why am I expecting to be hearing about a multi-billon dollar shakedown of US based corporations by the EU in the near term?
“cocaine is a hell of a drug”
Yeah, reality is not relevant when your mind is absorbed with altering your state of consciousness. Good thing he has lots of money for plastic surgery when the perforated nasal septum manifests itself.
Is Zelenskyy related to Tony Montana? I see lots of similarities.
I suppose Patriot missiles qualify as “little friends.”
“….Kimberly Kagan, Frederick Kagan, ….”
Victoria Nuland’s inlaws.
2 minute video of a captured Ukrainian soldier.
He had worked 27 years as a miner ,he was kidnapped off the street ,he got 3 days of training and was put in the trenches at the front line.
He was captured.
The west has criminal liability for what they have done to Ukraine while also engaging in the worst corruption, but sure, keep giving the criminal gang of Ukraine more taxpayer money
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2026/09/404-propaganda.html
Um, I doubt the Russians will allow a Ukrainian arms industry to flourish, unless of course the AD weapons are combat tested the moment they roll of the production lines. Pipe dreams, for a nation that has lost half its modern warehouse space, is incapable of producing steel, or defending its airspace or has command of its territorial waters.
As for Patriots, they are largely defensive systems, which are mobile in name only, and need to be part of a fully integrated AD system, which Ukraine is still lacking. They also don’t affect the war’s direction strategically (they can’t save the thousands of Ukrainian troops in the pockets that are developing, for example, around the Kharkov region), whilst keeping the DS from triggering their Russia 3 redux operation, which the MSM have pre-written on their laptops.
As with the US and Iran, Russia will not stop till she has achieved her strategic objectives, something the European globalists cannot, or will not acknowledge. Hence the ongoing fantasy’s about the viability of Ukraine and the resilience of the Iranian regime. President Trump is demonstrating that the US has the long-term resolve to achieve its strategic goals, hence the respect both Putin and Xi show him and the realisation that MAGA is far far more than a simple political philosophy, but a political paradigm shift.
Something some of its home-grown supporters are still struggling with, when aligning their political compasses, whereas the movement’s enemies are well down the road of understanding, hence their increasing retreat into comforting fictions like this announcement.
Making Zelenskyy an arms dealer would give Putin the right to turn Kiev and Odessa into Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The daily bombardment of Kiev and other strategic locations for the Russian rocket and strategic aviation forces is becoming similar to the USMC’s description of GW1, ‘a valuable and realistic training exercise’.
No need for nukes, hypersonics bring their own unique destructive footprints and their kill chain, traditionally measured in half hour increments is down to minutes, with ISR capabilities massively boosted by enhanced ISR capabilities, with concomitant C4 developments (the fourth C is for computers).
I’d rate Russian strategic force capabilities second to the US, due to their near constant exposure to the first 21st century conflict fought between industrial powers.
Humm I think if Trump agreed something like that he would have told his US constituents first and not left it up to our favorite little yard nome to make this public statement..
Its Friday…by Monday the page will have been turned. On to the next fire.
There’s no way on this earth that President Trump has agreed to make Zelenskyy an arms dealer. No way is that true.
Zelenskyy is an inveterate liar who is “high on his own supply.”
I pray that he would soon get the earthly justice he so richly deserves, as I am certain of the eternal justice awaiting him.
“Meanwhile, South Korea is furious at Zelenskyy for giving a speech at the United Nations where he told the world two North Korean soldiers were captured on the battlefield and handed over to South Korea.”
This is why inviting him to attend the G7 alongside President Putin would be a ****show and an unproductive use of time amongst the heads of state. The spectacle he put on at the White House last year got him escorted off the property early.
Regarding his plans to build Ukraine into an international arms building and sales hub: It appears that he has studied the Minnesota Somalian childcare / learing center model and will run it with comparable efficiency. Hopefully German and French voters in increasing percentages can see through this odious excrement. I suspect that as Europeans are asked to sacrifice even more (fewer jobs, higher energy costs, more illegal immigrants, etc.) while the appointed heads of state do not, a political reckoning is coming.
There might be a side issue there as Hanwha Aerospace has a contract to build military armaments for Saudi Arabia and maybe other countries in the Middle East. Z man may have stepped on some toes.
Z got careless at the UN, constantly rubbing his nose and acting big (in his mind). The white powder tends to do that.
Something tells me that there is a “Wait, there’s more” part of this story.
Maybe I greatly underestimated the Ukrainian people on the subject of manufacturing missiles. My Nespresso machine was made in Ukraine. That struck me as odd. But there must be a big difference between coffee machines and Patriot missiles.
The U.S. Army sold surplus M1 Garand rifles for years through the civilian marksmanship program. Other countries have surplus arms inventories as well that may be routed via Kyiv. France has a substantial inventory of WWII rifles in excellent condition that have never been fired, but dropped once.
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A double tap strike? Just in case the first tap didn’t get everybody’s attention?
I like Putin’s style.
Wow I didn’t know burning burgers and fries could kick out that much black smoke like that. Maybe there’s a lot of cooking bio-diesel in there too.
They wouldn’t store munitions in a food warehouse would they? Jeopardizing their food supply and all.
Beautiful! People shouldn’t be eating that crap anyway
I won’t believe Z will get any Patriot missiles, regardless the details of the deal, until President Trump confirms it to be true. Z has lied about so many things that no one should believe anything he says without reliable confirmation.
Z may be trying to present himself as “the world’s leading arms manufacturer”, but where is he manufacturing all those arms? Not much of it can be made in Ukraine, otherwise we would be reading about Russia attacking and destroying factory after factory. The factories under Ukraine’s control are likely all located in EU countries where the Russians cannot get to them, such as Slovakia where many of the drones are being made. And being located in EU countries means they may have a legal fiction of being Ukrainian, but actually are under EU ownership. Ukraine basically has no economy right now and depends almost entirely on outside money for everything. The growth in arms manufacturing Z claims credit for is not being done by him.
And all those ‘think tank experts’ he is thanking should be considered proof Z does not want peace. They are the crowd that has been promoting expansion of the war. They have not been promoting peace.
Giving the Ukrainian crook a license to build Patriot missiles signals that -maybe, possibly, likely. – that our elected president is not actually in charge, and Putin was right.
Z might have the license to build them but does he have all the parts?
Ok, but why then is Trump doing the opposite of what he should be doing? Assuming this story is true of course. Still, Trump’s position on the war with Russia is hard to understand. He was a big fan of Graham, who was a key figure in getting that war started and ensuring it continues.
Trump asked Zelensky not to attack Russia’s diesel refineries. Immediately afterwards, the refineries are attacked. No punishment for Ukraine resulted from this, instead we are seemingly giving them even more aid to drag this senseless war out longer.
EU and NATO going broke and they nod off/don’t care about 14 million hidden in an office of a Z political cohort.
If Trump has indeed gifted Ukraine any kind of Patriot secrets, the tin-horn dictator Z will sell those secrets and his own mother to kill just one more Ukrainian in this dope infused insanity they call a “war”. If true, my opinion of him sits on a razor.-edge because all the bravado he has spouted in the years since the election about how powerful his word is. I sincerely hope I am completely wrong, but time, not other voices, will bring the truth!