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Welcome to The Logoff. Today I’m focusing on a disastrous meeting between President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The hostile conversation had immediate consequences for Ukraine’s war effort and revealed much about how Trump sees the US’s new global role.

What was supposed to happen? Zelenskyy went to Washington, DC, in the hopes of signing a rare-earth minerals deal with Trump, a rapprochement between the two leaders after Trump had called the Ukrainian

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