Trump's opening gambit on Ukraine peace already a loser - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Putin, who has succeeded in playing the American president like a balalaika, has already won some -- like a 90-minute phone call with Trump, a meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov, and the reestablishment of embassy staffing in Washington and Moscow.
58% : Or is Trump waiting for Zelensky to sign on to that deal to give up half his nation's mineral resources to assure continued US support -- or perhaps to pay for past military support?
51% : Trump has shown a preternatural desire for a summit with Putin -- which would be a huge concession absent a cease-fire.
49% : And, as Trump has already indicated, if even a path to NATO membership for Ukraine is off the table, then some kind of security pact with the United States or members of the European Union, preferably both, would be critical to guarantee Ukrainian sovereignty.
31% : So what does Trump really want out of this?
31% : What is clear is that the war goes on -- and job one for Trump and his team is to stop the fighting, the killing, and the destruction.

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