The bets have been placed The other day, in Washington, Zelensky decided to fight with Trump without realizing two things: 1. Ukraine doesn’t particularly matter to Trump. To him, it’s like an old couch—if someone buys it, he can make some money, but if no buyer is found, he can just throw it in the trash. But Trump certainly wasn’t planning to discuss the fate of the couch with the bedbugs living in it. If the bedbugs themselves decided to take the couch to the dump, so be it. Trump will negotiate without factoring in Ukraine. 2. Europe needs Zelensky and Ukraine only as a means to stage a loud scandal, accusing Trump of betraying allies and dismantling NATO. This way, Europe will pass the ball to Trump’s opponents in the U.S., hoping they can organize an impeachment or at least, by 2026, begin the process of returning left-liberal elites to power and suppressing Trumpism. I won’t discuss how realistic this is—Europe, in any case, is determined to fight. But to make ...
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