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An extraordinary oval office meeting between President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Voldy Zelensky on Friday left hope for a US-brokered peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine. There are several reasons why things didn't go well and why they left an effort to end the war.
1. Zelenskyy does not grasp the bitter truth and deliberately ignores it. And only those who he is clearly not embarrassed or embarrassed (like a visit like Scranton, Pennsylvania, Campaign in September 2024) have the power to save him. For himself, I hope he is not “briefed” by the Obama Clinton Biden gang to stand up to Trump.
2. Zelenskyy acts as if his agenda and ours are the same. So he continues to insist that he is fighting for us. We share a lot of interest with Ukraine, but everything is by no means everything. Trump has “reset” with Russia and wants to triangulate China. He is trying to avoid a crisis like 1962's DEFCON 2 against a proxy showdown for its proximity to its nuclear rival. And he wants to heartily end the deadlocked slaughterhouse of Sterlingrad for everyone.
Trump and Zelensky were involved in an oval office cry game on Friday (Fox News)
3. Europeans (and Canada) are now speaking out loud about new muscle antitheses that unrelated to US promises, that Europeans will require that they prun the social welfare state, stop nuclear use, stop nuclear halts and spend 3-5% of their GDP on defense. Not only does the US pay 16% of NATO's budget, it is also featured in asymmetric tariffs that will bring the European Union's trade surplus to $160 billion, playing the world police officer, patrol the sea and deterring terrorists and illicit nations who could otherwise disrupt European commercial networks.
4. Zelenskyy must know that all of the once destructive obstacles to peace have been resolved. Ukraine is now more armed than most NATO countries, but is not in NATO. And the President will not supply Ukraine with armed people to reclaim Donbas and Crimea. So, the only two questions are a) how will President Putin withdraw to his 2022 border, and b) how will he be deterred? The first is answered by the commercial sector/Tripwire in eastern Ukraine, the joint European resource development corridor in eastern Ukraine and the DMZ like in Korea. The second is due to the fact that Putin, unlike the invasions of 2008 and 2014, now suffers a million deaths, is injured in Ukraine, and remains armed like that.
5. What is the alternative to Zelenskyyy without the help of many of us? Are you waiting for the Democrats to return to the White House in four years? Hope for rear Europe? Pray for a democratic home and a technical Trump bluff like the third Vindman. Or, engulf his pride, return to the White House, sign a rare earth mineral trade, invite them to the Euro (are they willing to patrol the DMZ?), and hopefully Trump can warn Putin as he succeeded during the 2017-21 years.
Russian President Vladimir Putin Chairman of the Conference via video link in the Moscow Kremlin on September 18, 2023, Draft of the Federal Budget for 2024 and Planning Period for 2025 and 2026, (Sputnik/Mikhail Metzel/Pool)
6. If there is a ceasefire, commercial contracts, euro presence, and influx of western companies into Ukraine, will there be elections? If so, will Zelenskyy and his party win? If not, will there be a transparent government of successors who will reveal exactly where all Western financial aid money went?
7. Zelenskyy might see the model at Netanyahu. The Biden administration has been much more difficult than Trump is in Ukraine, halting weapons shipments, demanding a ceasefire, thrusts wartime bipartisan cabinets, and hammed a side-celebration to Israel about collateral damage. However, Netanyahu was elegant to his hostile host when he managed the hostile President Biden, bringing Israel closer to its patronage and visiting. Netanyahu certainly wouldn't have denounced the global media's White House host and patronage presidents.
8. If Ukraine alienates the United States, what is its strategic victory plan? Are you waiting for more euros? Will you hold back the more encouraging Russian troops? Will you give up more territory? So what is the card of Zelenskyy that he appears to be forming the winning hand?
9. Most of them were doing very well if we watched all the 50-minute tapes carefully. Zelensky began to correct Vance first, and secondly began to play Trump. Splitting Ukraine into his host, and by his gestures, tone and interruption, he revealed that Trump had assumed that he was only a part of the Biden Wax Efigure of the same-compliant, ignorant moneybag. And it was naive for such a secular leader.
10. March 2025 was not March 2022, and not after Kiev's heroic salvation, but over three years, 1.5 million people were killed and later injured. Zelenskyy is no longer an international heartbeat with gorgeous aides. He postponed the election, banned opposition media and political parties, stopped habeas corpus, got out of negotiations when he held even-numbered hands in spring 2022, and when he wasn't in spring 2025.
quo vadis, volodymyr?
