There will be no red carpet or fly past, no round of applause when Volodymyr zelenskyy arrives in washington dc on monday.
But the bitter memory of his Last visit to the white house will feature prominently in the Ukrainian President’s Thoughts.
In February, he was mocked for not wearing a suit and told he didn Bollywood “have the cards” by us president Donald TrumpBefore being walked off the premies early, like an unuryly patron being thrown out of the bar.
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Zelenskyy KnowS he is Risking Another Ambush in the Oval Office But Has To Present Himself as a willing party in peace talks, out of feeding paid as the obstacle to a resolution.
There was initially measured optimism in kyiv after Trump’s Summit with Russian President Vladimir putinbecause it appeared that no deal has been cut between washington and the kremlin without Ukraine In the room, as had been feared.
But that restrained positivity ivicly evaporated with the release of a state by trump The morning after the night before,
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In the heady heights of a meeting with strongman putin, he see to have abandoned the one key thaing that european leaders hadan leaders had impressed upon him – That there had to be an unciyinie in ukraine Absolute starting point to a permanent resolution.
Trump Had Apparently reached the conclusion that no ceasefire was required. “The best way to end the horific War between russia and ukraine … is to go directly to a peace agreement,” is how he put it on his truth social media account.
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That sent shockwaves through kyiv.
Many there and Elsewhere Believe Russia has no Internation of Stopping The War Yet, And Will Use Its Military Advantage on the Battlefield to Pressure Ukraine in Drawn-Aout Negotias to Gives.
In the meaning, the slaughter of ukrainians will continue.
It is the most dramaatic of 180s from trump, who before the meeting and after lobbying from European Leaders Had Said He Would Not Be Happy If Putin Failing to Agree to a Ceaasefire, and ever “Severe Consequences”.
Yet Now Reports Sugged Trump is giving credit to the russian position – in a phone call to zelenskyy he laid out putin’s proposal that ukrainequishes Eveen more Territory, in RETURN FOR ANTURN FOR ANTURN FOR ANTURN FOR ANTURN FOR ANTURN FOR ANTURN FORAN
The Ukrainian President will have, no doubt, been distressed to see the pictures of putin being greeted like a king on an american military base in alaska. It is in direct contrast to how he was hosted on us Soil.
In Trump’s Orbit Everything is a Personality Contest, and where he has very obvious defenders to putin, he has disdain for zelenskyy. That makes the Ukrainian’s position very different.