The European leaders were there to support the Ukranian leader after being left out of talks between Trump and Putin in Alaska last Friday. They have good reason to be concerned as Trump has been bragging about his buddy Putin and even rolled out a red carpet for him in an act that made most Americans disgusted.
Who can blame Zelenskyy for wanting a support team after the treatment he received the last time he visited the White House? Trump and Vance sat on either side of him and accused him of not being grateful enough for U.S. military assistance. It was a sickening display of bullying.
It was quite the spectacle watching world leaders be nice to the man that most of them loathed. A regular tea party. Everyone smiled and tried to act like Trump was not a sociopath and fan boy of Putin.
What was accomplished you ask?
Well let's see, the world leaders wanted a cease fire and Trump doesn't want to now because he thinks they can all sit around a table and get a peace agreement if they'll all just concede Putin is NOT giving back the Ukrainian territories it conquered, and the country has to agree NOT to get in NATO.
If that's the starting point of this "historic" meeting how far do you think it will go? Absolutely nowhere. Trump is only offering US protection for Ukraine - albeit questionable protection (no parameters yet) and no talk about NATO.
Somehow, I doubt those seven world leaders were very reassured by Trump's bluster. It's obvious that Trump is going to back Putin and that's not in their best interests. As they each smiled and thanked Trump for putting together the meeting they must have been thinking that not only was there no progress made it looked like none would be made in the near future despite talk of a future trilateral meeting with Putin, Trump, and Zelenskyy.
Trump let everyone know that he was going to report the meetings progress to his daddy in Moscow after it was over. He'll plead with the Russian dictator tonight to have a trilateral meet, but Putin isn't interested and he'll just string Donny along as he's been doing for the last decade. If he does agree we can count on Trump humiliating our nation again.
What Trump personally accomplished, for a few days at least, was that the Epstein Files didn't dominate the news as the world dialed in to see if any peace progress was being made. As we now all know, it was a "nothing burger" with a side of bullshit.
As it Stands, Trump met with Zelenskyy before meeting with world leaders and informed him that he needed to hand over seized territory and to drop his dreams about belonging to NATO. The rest of the story.
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