Fall Guy: Trumps Russland -Deal zielt darauf ab, Zelensky zu verdrängen

The metaphorical dove of peace is said to take wing at a pope’s funeral, spreading goodwill among the assembled leaders.

Sadly there is little chance of that happening at the Vatican on Saturday — it will be an achievement of sorts if President Trump of the US even catches the eye of President Zelensky of Ukraine.

The reason is clear: a plan drawn up by Trump’s negotiators, largely to please President Putin, is essentially a declaration of Kyiv’s surrender. It has been carelessly drafted against the clock not to bring peace to Europe but to make it impossible for Zelensky to continue as the leader of a partitioned and permanently vulnerable Ukraine.

Why bother with this miserable pantomime? Not to save thousands of Ukrainian and Russian lives, as Trump claims, but to reset relations with Moscow