One Hour That Shook the World
(Trump’s America and the New World Order, Part 7)
Ukrainian President Zelensky’s visit to the White House lasted less than an hour, but it shook the world. Let’s highlight several moments and outline its possible consequences.
- Washington had been sending signals to Kyiv for five days before the meeting that Zelensky should not come and meet Trump in person. Keith Kellogg, special envoy for Russia and Ukraine, was especially against Zelensky’s visit.
The “Agreement on Rare Earths” is in fact a framework agreement and requires further elaboration, and could have been signed by the Prime Minister or Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, without Zelensky’s visit to the United States. Kiev insisted on a visit and a personal meeting between the presidents. Most of the European leaders supported Kiev.
It was clear that Zelensky intended to use the meeting to convince Trump to continue to help Ukraine in its war and to abandon the peace agreement with Russia.
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