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Just after chatting with Putin, Trump sold Zelensky again: either cede land and seek peace, or you will just wait to be destroyed.

On October 17, local time, Ukrainian President Zelensky came to the White House again. This is his third visit to the White House in the past eight months. This time, he came for military assistance from the United States.

Zelensky was full of hope, but he didn't think about it, waiting for himself, but it was Trump's thrown on his face, almost like a "last message".

The closed-door meeting, which lasted for three hours, eventually turned into several rounds of fierce confrontation. According to the people present, Trump not only exploded several times, but also threw the map of the Ukrainian front to the side, warning, ¡°If Putin wants, he can destroy you at any time.¡±

It is worth mentioning that this has been the second intense conflict since this year, the publicization of the leaders of Meyu.

At the end of February, after Trump took office, Zelensky visited the White House for the first time, and the two were unrelenting. Trump and Wans both expressed extreme dissatisfaction with Zelensky's resolute gesture, directly accusing him of "lack of gratitude" in the face of the global media, which at the time shook the entire American West.

Now, eight months have passed, and compared to this closed-door confrontation, the two people in February that public quarrel, on the contrary, seemed more restrained.

During the talks, Trump almost literally repeated many of the arguments Putin put forward with him in a call the day before, including defining the Russian-Ukrainian conflict as a so-called ¡°special military operation¡± that Russia has always emphasized, and insisting that Ukraine assign the entire Donbass region to Putin.

Zelensky tried to argue, and wanted to show Trump the position map of the Russian front, but Trump directly interrupted him, then said, ¡°This red line you are talking about, I don¡¯t even know where it is, I¡¯ve never been there.¡±

Trump's uncovered political indifference made the Ukrainian officials present feel completely cold.

The talks marked a fundamental change in U.S. policy toward Ukraine. Zelensky's trip originally hoped to persuade the United States to provide long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles to reverse its battlefield disadvantage, but it was flatly rejected. Instead, it was an ultimatum from the United States demanding that Ukraine immediately accept Russia's armistice conditions.

Photographs released after the meeting show that Zelensky¡¯s sentiment is very strong, in contrast to his self-confidence gesture during his visit to the United States at the beginning of this year.

This is not only a diplomatic defeat, it also means that Ukraine¡¯s overall strategy of relying on the United States and rejecting Russia is on the verge of a crisis outbreak.

Since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine conflict in 2022, Ukraine has relied on Western military assistance to maintain the war. Today, the attitude of the United States, Ukraine's largest donor, has suddenly changed, leaving Kiev facing the most severe choice since the war: either make a humiliating compromise on the territorial issue, or bear full-scale military pressure from Russia alone.

Even more disturbing to the Ukrainian side is the fact that what Trump demonstrated in the talks was an ignorance or even contempt for the geography and war situation in Ukraine, because to some extent this means that the so-called strategic partnership between the United States and the U.S. has survived.

For Putin, this meeting was undoubtedly a major victory for his diplomatic strategy. Through Trump's pressure on Ukraine, Russia gained an advantage at the negotiating table that was difficult to gain on the battlefield without a single effort. Trump repeated Putin's statement of "special military operations" during the talks, which was more like providing legitimacy for Russia's military operations at the discourse level.

It is worth noting that this meeting took place after Trump boasted of "successfully" mediating the Palestinian-Israeli situation (which in fact did not). Obviously, he hopes to replicate his "successful model" in Middle East diplomacy, but the complexity of the Russia-Ukraine conflict far exceeds his expectations.

Trump¡¯s attitude to Zelensky has sparked deep concern in European countries.Many European officials say the U.S. policy mutation toward Ukraine not only threatens Ukraine¡¯s destiny, but also shakes the basis of mutual trust in the entire Western alliance.

In the words of a senior EU diplomat: "If the United States can abandon a strategic partner so easily, then any alliance commitment will become unreliable."

The current situation in Europe reminds us of the Crimean crisis of 2014, when the Obama administration¡¯s relatively negative attitude created conditions for Russia¡¯s annexation of Crimea, and today Trump¡¯s tough pressure could have far-reaching geopolitical consequences.

If Ukraine is forced to make concessions in territorial matters, it will not only mean a major downturn in international law and post-war order, but will also create a dangerous precedent that the power of power can change borders by force, and the international community will eventually tacit this reality.

The game of great powers has always been cruel, but such a straightforward power transaction is rare even in the eyes of the most pessimistic geopolitical scholars.

When Zelensky left the White House, he took away not only endless disappointments, but a cruel truth.

Small and large powers deal with each other, morality and justice have never been merely decorations, and the real code is always force and interest.