‘Donald Trump is like the light at the end of the tunnel’, an American told me last night at the only Washington DC bar throwing a pro-Trump election party. For many Ukrainians, though, he’s more like the end itself.
Trump has called himself ‘good friends’ with Vladimir Putin. He said ‘Ukraine no longer exists’ and that ‘even the worst deal [with Russia] would be better than what is now’. Ukrainians got the hint and hoped for a Kamala Harris’s victory. But Americans have chosen, and now Kyiv will bend over backwards, trying to convince its biggest military backer not to abandon Ukraine.
Trump has called himself ‘good friends’ with Vladimir Putin
Volodymyr Zelensky was one of the first leaders to congratulate Trump this morning. ‘I appreciate President Trump’s commitment to the “peace through strength” approach in global affairs’, he said. ‘This is exactly the principle that can practically bring just peace in Ukraine closer’.
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