@white_male it's great theater but I don't think it was ever ment to work out. After this meeting, Zelensky was supposed to sign away practically all mineral rights of Ukraine WITHOUT a security guarantee from the United States which is something he was adament about in the past. A security guarantee would have been a non starter for Russia and they would've walked away from the peace talks.

All parties in the peace process are proposing things that are simply unacceptable to one or both of the other parties so this was doomed to fail.

Zelensky will continue to grift and keep up his drug habit for as long as he possibly can and Trump gets to claim a W for at least trying. This is just like the fake and gay deportation hype where were has 20-30 illegals loaded onto a C-17 as a major win for Trump. It makes great theater but is pretty much inconsequential.