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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump urged Zelenskyy to accept Putin's terms or be 'destroyed' by Russia - Financial Times
Donald Trump urged Volodymyr Zelenskyy to accept Russias terms for ending its war in a volatile White House meeting on Friday, warning that Vladimir Putin had said he would destroy Ukraine if it did not agree.
The meeting between the US and Ukrainian presidents descended many times into a shouting match, with Trump cursing all the time, people familiar with the matter said.
They added that the US president tossed aside maps of the frontline in Ukraine, insisted Zelenskyy surrender the entire Donbas region to Putin, and repeatedly echoed talking points the Russian leader had made in their call a day earlier.
Though Ukraine ultimately managed to swing Trump back to endorsing a freeze of the current front lines, the acrimonious meeting appeared to reflect the capricious nature of Trumps position on the war and his willingness to endorse Putins maximalist demands.
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During Fridays meeting, Trump appeared to have adopted many of Putins talking points verbatim, even when they contradicted his own recent statements about Russias weaknesses, said European officials briefed on the meeting.
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Traildogbob
(12,073 posts)usonian
(21,851 posts)More money. Less support of Ukraine.
I am not sure of the Epstein link to this, if any, but with Prince Andrew going down, the dam is going to break.
I don't know how this goes down

but everything is getting more frantic. And there's more than one pile of evidence to suppress.
Deuxcents
(24,488 posts)B.See
(7,146 posts)moondust
(21,105 posts)probably has all kinds of pee tapes, Mar-a-Lago classified documents, incriminating intercepts, and other leverage to make TSF do whatever he wants.
Timing tells the story: Pooty called TSF the day before TSF met with Zelensky.
LudwigPastorius
(13,659 posts)Ruff! Ruff!
