The American President has pioneered a new form of diplomacy: betrayal by tweet. The mean-spirited, autocrat-indulging Donald J. Trump has in a Truth Social post called President Volodymyr Zelensky a ‘dictator’, falsely accused him of scamming America out of billions dollars of military aid, and demanded that he ‘better move fast or he is not going to have a Country left.’
By ‘moving fast,’ the US President presumably means Zelensky’s immediate agreement to the recently leaked plan that would hand the United States a $500 billion stake in Ukraine’s rare earth minerals. Zelensky has so far refused to accept a plan that would amount to a colonial sacking of Ukraine, already battered and brutalised by the Russian invasion.
In return, Trump has promised ‘peace.’
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