OPINION: How Zelensky is Outmaneuvering Trump's Patronizing Gambit

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When US President Donald Trump returned to the White House with a promise to effectively end the war in Ukraine with a wave of his hand, the script seemed written. His Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, would accept whatever it entailed, and Washington would be fine with this option. Ukraine’s very survival depended on an American hand-holding agreement –treating its president as though he were a desperate supplicant, with no option but to do as Trump wanted. This assumption was

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