Just in case you are wondering, the fact that this went down at a meeting where Zelensky was supposed to acquiesce to Trump's demands to loot the Ukraine is a whole special kind of nuts.
I'm not sure if Trump ambushed Zelensky, or Zelensky ambushed trump, or Trump is just experiencing the neurological effects of tertiary syphilis, (if I had to choose, I would choose the latter) but this is unprecedented.
US military support for Ukraine hangs in the balance and talks over a minerals deal have collapsed following a disastrous White House summit in which Donald Trump warned Volodymyr Zelenskyy that he was “gambling with world war three” and told the Ukrainian president to come back “when he is ready for peace”.
Zelenskyy left the White House early, and a press conference to announce the minerals deal was cancelled, after Trump gave Zelenskyy a dressing-down that followed an ambush led by vice-president JD Vance to shatter the fragile relationship between the two leaders.
The US president received the Ukrainian president on Friday to discuss a controversial mineral resources deal that Trump has said is the first step towards a ceasefire agreement he is seeking to broker between Russia and Ukraine.
I should note here that this sort of exchange is not unprecedented in foreign relations, but it occuring during a f%$#ing photo op for the press is.
What's more, to quote (not) Talleyrand, "It is worse than a crime, it is a mistake."
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