by John Helmer, Moscow
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Several hours before Vladimir Zelensky arrived at the Oval Office, Nima Alkhorshid led the discussion of each of this week’s negotiations on the Ukraine war by President Donald Trump, and by the only brain in the room, Vice President JD Vance.
Click for the hour-long podcast here.
Follow the entire Oval Office press conference between Trump and Zelensky. This is as revealing of Trump’s limitations in negotiations as it is in exposing Zelensky’s vulnerabilities.
Note the pat which Vice President JD Vance reached out to give Trump in the last seconds of the session. That was the reassurance Vance knows Trump needs. As explained in the podcast, and also in this analysis, French President Emmanuel Macron also understands and displayed during his visit to the White House on Monday.
Quite another reassurance, without the hand pats, is understood in Moscow, as the podcast explains.
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