Subject: Re: Trump Threatens Zelenski
You're also seeing a living test on this board as to who here has actually negotiated ANYTHING in their lives.

All Zelensky had to do was

1) Fly to the US
2) Sign the deal
3) Smile for the cameras
4) Answer a couple of questions and say, "Can't wait to be in formal business with the United States, and I'm looking forward to the day the war ends so we can rebuild the Ukraine together"
5) Have lunch
6) Fly home.

That's it.

What nobody in the lib 'o sphere realizes is that the strategic minerals deal (I don't want to call it rare Earth, because IIRC they don't have actual rare Earth elements) amounts to a de facto security guarantee between the US and the Ukraine.