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The Ukrainian President puts a premium on the face-to-face stuff
This deal has been at least eight months in the making
He still demands huge chunks of Ukraine and other dramatic concessions
There is not much room for Ukrainian leverage, as far as Trump is concerned
To begin to grapple with this you have to go way, way back to Donald J. Trump’s first term in office
The reality is that the agreement that didn’t get signed last Friday is more a matter of symbolism than economics
The decision to suspend all intelligence sharing with Kyiv is a less visible but almost as serious blow as the pause to arms deliveries
The process of browbeating the country into submission may have been ugly, but it could be the first real step towards ending the bloodshed
The war in Ukraine has the potential to put the US into a direct conflict with Russia, a nuclear-armed power far more threatening than the Taliban
‘That is a way better security guarantee than 20,000 troops from some random country that hasn’t fought a war in thirty or forty years’
