Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky angered Donald Trump so much during the peace talks with Russia that Trump was on the verge of withdrawing American military support from Ukraine, three U.S. officials familiar with the discussions tell Axios.
That framing is totally strange. Donald Trump is a madman on a mission and there really is nothing Zelensky could have done to please him.
This article is misinformation and only presents the US’s side of complex international negotiations. Ukrainians reported very different behavior from Trump’s team.
In short zelensky didn’t jump up and down at taking a deal so insanely over the top bad that literally would have been harsher than punishments they normally put on aggressors that lost in wars. (IE if I recall it was deemed even harsher than what was put on germany after WW1, which as we know is what set up germany’s economic strife that brought ww2.
Secondly their own admission… Zelensky said he needed parlimentary approval to accept the deal. AKA this guy who’s being accused of being a dictator by trumps whitehouse… wasn’t going to decide he had the authority to sign a “Ukraine gives half of what we have to the US forever” in exchange the US that is currently lead by a guy who, has a long history of not keeping his half of bargains, will promise to protect them.
How dare Zelensky not accept the extortion attempt and start this war by being invaded!