Ukraine. Ukraine. Ukraine.

Summary (BBC)​

  • Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky have clashed in an extraordinary exchange at the White House, with Trump telling the Ukrainian president to "make a deal or we're out"
  • You can watch their angry exchanges in the video on this page
  • The US president tells his Ukrainian counterpart to be "thankful" and accuses him of "gambling with World War Three"
  • Zelensky says there should be "no compromises" with Vladimir Putin - but Trump says Kyiv will have to make concessions to reach a peace deal with Russia
  • It was an unprecedented moment of tension, our correspondent at the White House says
  • Zelensky has now left the White House and a planned news conference with the two presidents has been cancelled
  • "He can come back when he is ready for peace," Trump posted on his Truth Social platform
They didn't like that he called out Russia for failing to honor past peace deals (as Russia always ignores agreements) and tying that to need of future security guarantees.
 
$300 billion, nope $125 billion. Trump tells Zelenskyy he’s risking WW3 if he doesn’t capitulate . Trump’s feeble brain tells him Ukraine started the war. Lies, lies, lies in the most public way possible. We’ve got a delusional mad man leading us into an unrecognizable future. Apparently Zelenskyy needs to grovel and boot lick Trump and Vance like Trump does Putin. IMO and along the way let’s demean and blame every democrat possible in the process to earn MAGA points with his most ignorant base.
 
tRump and vance call Zelensky disrespectful...translation: he refused to bend the knee...
He didn’t fall prostrate on the floor or kiss the ring. Ban that impertinence out of the White House.
 
Unfortunately, you can't have sensible conversations with Maga, they believe everything Trump says and does, no matter how many facts you come armed with, the United States is going down a path that it may not be able to recover from and we only have ourselves to blame
And you believed everything Biden said while he ran your country into the ground. Now all the sudden you've become "sensible"? Wow!
 
Welp, the only chance for Russia to be stopped is the rest of Europe to step up. That looks like a nail in the coffin for US/Ukraine relations. Only two options left on the table.

1. Europe actually steps up and assists with Ukraine’s right to self determination. Ukraine could have some sort of settled armistice in the next year and survives.

2. Russia conquers Ukraine. Emboldening them to push for more conquest.

Both of these will lead to irreversible damage to global trust in the US. This also hurts global diplomacy. This Administration has knocked back 50 years of any positive soft power we had in 2 months. In a couple years we won’t be able to buy anything with computer chips due to Chinese supply blockades after they conquer Taiwan. Likely timed a year after the CHIPs act is mothballed. Any trade relationship with our biggest trading partners in Europe is over and they will look elsewhere for goods and services we provide. China is also snatching up trading relations in the fastest developing countries in South America and Africa. I guess we could still build something with Hungary, lots of trade opportunity there. How could anyone see this as a win?
 
Embarrassing how tRump and jd acted today! Like two little kids picking on someone who is fighting for his life in a fight. Effing embarrassing!!
 
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