The Beggar Kings Arrive in Washington

 

The Beggar Kings Arrive in Washington to Send a “Clear Message” They Don’t Control

 

President Donald Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for separate Oval Office meetings on Tuesday, timed to coincide with the funeral of Sen. Lindsey Graham, a longtime advocate for both countries.

Officials from all sides offered upbeat readouts.

Netanyahu called his session “one of the best conversations” he has had with Trump; the two reaffirmed an “ironclad commitment” to ensuring Iran never obtains nuclear weapons, the foremost topic of discussion.

Zelenskyy focused on advancing licenses for Ukrainian production of Patriot interceptor missiles (announced earlier in Ankara) and other ideas to support Kyiv, with special envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff expected to visit Ukraine soon to reinvigorate diplomacy.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt described both meetings as “positive and productive.”

The Netanyahu meeting occurred against a backdrop of recent friction.

After close early coordination on the Iran war that began in late February, contact between the leaders had grown infrequent; Trump paused U.S. strikes and pursued negotiations with Tehran, including a short-lived mid-June memorandum that Netanyahu had opposed in favor of continued military pressure. Additional disagreements arose over arms sales to Turkey and a Saudi nuclear deal lacking explicit Israeli normalization language.

Trump has privately expressed frustration with Netanyahu’s assessments while publicly maintaining a cooperative tone.

Zelenskyy’s visit continued Ukraine’s deliberate outreach to MAGA and America First circles that have long been wary of open-ended support.

Recent Ukrainian battlefield gains and a high-profile meeting with activist Laura Loomer (who declared full support after interviewing him) created limited openings, including positive comments from Vice President JD Vance.

Yet many hard-line Republicans remain skeptical, and Trump responded cautiously to Zelenskyy’s claims of Russian-Iranian collaboration.

Burning Bright: Volodymyr Zelenskyy entered the American Mindscape, which is to say the Info War around the same time I did.

In fact, long-time readers who've followed me all the way back to the Righteous Russia series may recall that I've been referring to him as the 'Prussian Proxy Prince' since 2022, when he was still popular enough on an ALMOST-bipartisan level to be compared more often to Luke Skywalker than Gríma Wormtongue.

That's right.

There was a time in the not-so-distant past when even most of the MAGA core considered Zelenskyy to be a paragon of virtue standing up to the evil Russian Empire.

It was retarded then, and it's retarded now.

The thing is, it seems the Mindscape is beginning to agree, with Zelenskyy as unpopular as any foreign would-be leader among the MAGA core, just as he is taking reputational damage on a lag among the liberal-minded.

Which brings us to the OTHER Prussian Proxy on the board, and some would say the original, Bibi Netanyahu, who has followed something of an opposite, albeit congruent path to infamy as Zelenskyy within the expanding and shifting contours of the American Mind.

You see, just as Zelenskyy was once lionized by both sides of the American Mind and is now demonized by one and ignored by the other, so Bibi has followed an inverted path, having been demonized by the left side of the public aisle long before the right began following suit on a long and Trump-induced delay.

Now, both men find themselves in Washington DC with hegemonic hats held firmly in hand ... certainly nothing new to each, and yet, the timing of which offers a convergence in Bolshevik begging that, well, beggars belief.

I'm not a 'full control' analyst in the way some are in the winding ways of the Info War, but when it comes to the humiliation ritual Zelenskyy and Netanyahu are affecting in the western mind, and of it, you can sign me up for a 'full control' card.

Donald Trump will hear the collectivist cries of the twin Proxy Princes this week in DC, as will the American People, and the headlines, as predicted (and as turned out to be the case) will be glowing.

But nobody will be listening, as the proxies wicks have run.