Trump is pretty obviously in Putin’s pocket, and it’s likely that he would get financial kickbacks for getting Zelensky to sign that paper. It would also be a great deal of international prestige for ending a long and bloody war.
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Sure, the war is now still going. Things are still desperate for them. I’m not sugarcoating it. But Trump lost yesterday, because he *didn’t* broker an international peace agreement. The treaty was basically in the bag, and because he couldn’t help himself, he killed a deal that should’ve been easy.
The media is saying that Zelensky lacked self-control here, but it was actually Trump who lacked self-control. Trump and Vance killed this deal with their self-indulgent “kiss the ring” media circus. They showed themselves incapable of what should’ve been a slam dunk for them.
Zelensky knows that Trump needs this as much, if not more, than Ukraine does. Trump has to please his master, and he failed yesterday. So now he’ll be forced to come back to the table again but this time Zelensky has a stronger position.
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But this is where Zelensky showed himself to have the kind of backbone that our politicians lack: he called Trump’s bluff and walked.