Analysis || Trump and Vance set up “a trap”: it was “good television” for Trump but in what I was interested in did not go well to the US President
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in Washington on Friday optimistic that the signing of the mineral agreement desired by President Donald Trump would keep the US by his side. But he didn’t know he was falling into an “ambush”, a “trap” or in synonyms.
“It is absolutely unfortunate,” at CNN Portugal the Major-General Isidro de Morais Pereira. “It was not expected that the worthy elected representatives of a country had this behavior with a president from another country in the White House.” It is unfortunate from the point of view of diplomacy. “The major-general recalls that Donald Trump had no desire to receive Zelensky, was Emmanuel Macron, the French president, who interceded to receive the Ukrainian President to sign a deal. I have all this “seems to have been previously coordinated to give this internal spectacle to the Americans and the whole world.”
“There was a clear attempt by Donald Trump from The President of Ukraine: or signs or hair without support,” Isidro de Morais Pereira. “All of this has been prepared to force a man to sign an agreement that was completely unfavorable to him.”
The Major-General speaks of staging. “Ambush” is an expression used by Eli Stokols, correspondent of the White House, and also by Tom Nicols, specialist in international matters he writes in.
“This was one of the most black days in the history of American diplomacy,” writes Tom Nicols. The international policy expert agrees that the meeting “smelled of a planned attack,” continues Nichols, “with Trump to discharge Russian arguments against Zelensky (how to blame Ukraine for risking a global war), all designed to humiliate the Ukrainian leader on national television and give Trump a pretext to do what he has repeatedly indicated: End of war under Russia. Trump is now considering the immediate end of all military aid to Ukraine due to Zelensky’s supposed intransigence during the meeting. “
“Vance’s presence in the White House also suggests that the meeting was a trap,” adds Nichols. “The Ukrainian leader did his best to face bullying, but Trump and Vance were representing the cameras and the audience Maga at home.”
The confrontation with the Ukrainian President and “Trump’s apart that that word exchange would give a good television” showed that much of his blows against Zelensky were first addressed to a domestic audience, “says Eli Stokols. “For weeks, Trump spoke of possible economic agreement with Ukraine less as a step towards peace than as a cunning form of US taxpayers ‘recover’ past help from the US.” Here was the opportunity to show the Americans how I would do it.
However, contrary to what was expected, after this meeting Volodymyr Zelensky without signing the deal. If there is proof that the trumus show was a “fiasco” is the fact that Zelensky did not sign the agreement on Ukrainian minerals, writes the correspondent of Na, Michael D. Shear.
