The other possible reason they made a mistake about how Zelensky, the wider Ukrainian govt, and the Ukrainian people would react to bullying and attempted extortion is ignorance about recent Ukrainian history.
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Strong-arming US politicians worried about their futures or the soft political elites of other Western countries is one thing. Trying it with Ukrainians who've individually and collectively lived through both the war and Ukraine in the 1990s is, I suspect, something else.
This is my guess too. Someone sorted a deal Ukraine could sign, Trump found it, hated it, tried to shake down VZ for a more extractive version, which he saw coming and pushed back on, hence the fireworks.
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It is also classic mirroring. Because they themselves lack integrity and have surrounded themselves with people who will bow down subserviently, they presume everyone they encounter must be the same
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