Trump Asked Zelensky to Meet Putin in Moscow. This Was Not the First Such Request...

Trump asked Zelensky to meet Putin in Moscow. This was not the first such request from Trump. Zelensky had refused before and refused this time as well. Zelensky is upset that Trump is raising the issue again, - Bloomberg.

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Oh, for fuck's sake, honestly. No words. Not only is Trump himself afraid to lift even a finger against Putin, he is also pushing Zelensky out in front. What a TACO.

But the problem is also that Trump still does not understand why Zelensky cannot go. Because Putin views a meeting with Zelensky only in the context of signing Ukraine's capitulation. And Putin does not care how it is formalized - whether in Witkoff-Dmitriev's 28 points, or through Zelensky traveling to Moscow.

In other words, by inviting Zelensky, Putin is effectively offering Ukraine an alternative: you can sign capitulation on neutral territory without a leaders' meeting - in that case, please, here are your 28 points; and if not, then come to us, and we will do it right in the Kremlin, faster and easier.

That's it, that is the only meaning Putin is putting into this meeting.

And since there are no preconditions at the front not only for Ukraine's capitulation, but even for Russia to be able to dictate terms at all, Zelensky cannot simply go and bow before the tsar - and that is exactly how this visit would be staged within the Russian imperial paradigm.

Capitulation, let me remind you, is not Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, as many mistakenly believe. This is not about Donbas at all. It is about so-called "demilitarization" and "denazification" - the disarmament of Ukraine and the dismantling of Ukraine's legally elected government, followed by turning Ukraine into a puppet state. That is what is at stake.

Although maybe Trump does understand this, but he absolutely does not give a fk what happens to Ukraine - as long as he can show an imitation of progress before the elections.