Ukraine hasn’t lost the war. Its backers, including successive administrations in the United States of America (preceding Trump’s), have demonstrated great tactical awareness in frustrating the strategic aims of Putin’s extra-territorial liaisons. What Moscow thought would be a two-day war has dragged on for three years that have humbled Russia into accepting an unstable stalemate.

But you would have never imagined that Ukraine’s embattled President Zelenskyy held a few cards of his own when his nose was being unceremoniously rubbed into the carpet of the Oval Office by US President Donald Trump and his MAGA cohorts. At the risk of repeating a cliché, that day, diplomacy became a reality TV show.

Trump’s pro-Russia tilt wasn’t........

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