Ukrainian President Zelensky’s visit to the White House can be described in eight words: “extremely uncomfortable, empty-handed and extremely uncomfortable” is the process, “empty-handed” is the result.
While Zelensky was on his way to Washington, Trump and Putin made a two and a half-hour call and even suggested building a “Trump Putin Tunnel” to connect Alaska with Russia.
Thro the talks, although it was "extremely uncomfortable", there was no sword pulling, as in February this year, Zelensky was expelled from the White House without eating, such a face-to-face humiliation did not appear.
The picture shows Trump and Zelensky
For example, Zelensky mentioned that drones could be exchanged for American Tomahawk missiles, but Trump did not answer. Instead, he smiled at his deputy Vance. This smile shows contempt for Zelensky and Ukraine-do you want to exchange your drone for my Tomahawk missile? What are you thinking? This smile is worth a thousand words.
During the intermittent talks, Zelensky learned the lessons of going to the White House in February, not facing the Trump summit, but rather cautiously pronouncing words, saying nothing to blame Trump, but his dignity and bottom line must beined.
As a leader of a weak country, it is not that the weak country has no diplomacy, but in the face of the strong, in the face of the person who can break your financial path and break your help, it is indeed not hard.
Zelensky's goal in this trip is very clear, that is, he wants the United States to provide Tomahawk missiles. The Tomahawk missile has a range of 2000 kilometers. If Ukraine obtains it, it can strike deep military energy targets in Russia. Trump has been vague for the past few weeks, and Zelensky is now asking for it, saying,"We need Tomahawk missiles because we don't have them."
The picture shows the Tomahawk missile
Trump replied: "We need it too, and we need to defend ourselves." The implication is that you still need it yourself, but you still care for me. As for the issue of Ukraine getting the Tomahawk missile, Trump was even more vague. He said: "I hope the threat posed by the Tomahawk missile to Russia exists, and I hope this threat will always be there."
What does it mean? is hanging there has never been given. Trump's tai chi played pretty fine. Let's talk, in the case of the "war ax" missile, Zelensky did not the result he wanted.
In addition to the “Taxic” missile, Zelensky, of course, hoped that the United States would help him with the peace issue between Russia and Ukraine, but Trump reiterated the old story: “You better end now and stop where you hit now,” which means not supporting Ukraine’s recovery of lost territories and not supporting Ukraine’s recovery of lost territories with more American or NATO-provided weapons.
This is a very disappointing thing for Zelensky, but he can’t object and just say, “Yes, Mr. President, we want peace, but Putin doesn’t want it.”
We look back at the two meetings with Zelensky, from the meetings in Alaska and Putin, the two sides from body language to mutual diplomatic ceremonies, can be said to be different.
But when I saw Zelensky, it was like sending a flower, and he was asking for money again, including Trump, Wance, including his defense secretary Hegerseth, it was like this.
This is one of the ways the Trump administration is dealing with the world today: if you want to get the United States down, what the United States is doing, you have to have codes, you have to exchange them.
For Zelensky, the road ahead was long and increasingly dangerous. After the White House collapse, before the “extremely uncomfortable, empty-handed return” the EU leaders and Zelensky held a video conference.
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EU leaders, including British Prime Minister Thomas Stammer, encouraged and comforted Zelensky, saying they would unswervingly support the cause of Ukraine. However, if the EU is "unswerving", without the help of the United States, it will probably be very stressful to defeat Russia on the battlefield and even hold on to its current territory.
This was Zelensky’s second visit to the White House—very uncomfortable and empty-handed.