Andrew Dickens: Trump's meeting with Zelensky was schoolyard bullying

Well who didn’t see the Trump Zelensky meltdown coming?

The whole thing has been a show for the crowds and not a real play for peace.

Before the summit Zelensky made it very clear that he wanted a ceasefire but with security guarantees.  

Reportedly America told Zelensky not to mention the security guarantees at the press conference. But that’s the heart of his position.

He doesn’t trust Putin because they’ve had a ceasefire with Putin before that Putin broke.

Trump made it very clear he wants out and he wants a payoff of minerals for everything the US has put in so far.

He has a mandate for that. He campaigned on it and he got the vote.

So when they met and the press started recording, Trump and Vance spoke as though their plan was a fait d’accompli.

But it wasn’t. Ukraine has always said “no security guarantee no deal”

So when Zelensky starts reminding them of what had happened in the past, Trump and Vance went 2 on 1 and gave him a lesson.

It was schoolyard stuff. Beating up the immigrant kid with English as a second language.

Trump and Vance were playing to their American public.

The American public that voted for Trump that are sick of trillions of their dollars going to a place they barely know.

That American public is now saying Zelensky wants to continue with the war.

But that's not so. Europe is prepared to insure the peace but America is not.

Putin must love it. America is now selfish and irrelevant while Europe's underinvestment in defence is glaring.

And I need to remind Americans that back in the day when Winston Churchill came to Washington to convince America to enter World War 2 he came dressed in a military boiler suit to signify he was in an actual war while the Americans weren’t.

Zelensky is in a war. Trump and Vance are not.

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