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Trump-Zelenskiy Meeting Was "Missed Opportunity": Former US Ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker
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5:55Now PlayingFor the Kremlin, Donald Trump is making all of Vladimir Putin’s dreams come true in Ukraine.
The extraordinary public humiliation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy by the US leader and his vice president, JD Vance, exceeded anything Russia could have expected. Or as one senior European official put it: The only one laughing here is Putin.
Russian support was swift. Former President Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia’s security council, said Trump told Zelenskiy “the truth to his face” before adding: “But it’s not enough - military aid should be stopped.”
Trump and Vance “wiped their feet on Zelenskiy like a doormat,” said Alexander Dugin, a political scientist in Moscow who advocates a “Russian World” ideology to justify Kremlin expansion. “Game over.”
The official response may be more circumspect. One official, close to the Kremlin, said that Russia has no influence on the US.
Kirill Dmitriev, the one-time Goldman Sachs Group Inc. banker turned influential Putin envoy, posted something on X only to then delete it. He then went on to post a video of the heated exchange between Trump and Zelenskiy with a one-word description: “Historic.”
Kurt Volker Former US Ambassador to NATO & Former US Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations, states it was "a real missed opportunity" when sharing his thoughts on President Trump and President Zelenskiy's argument in the Oval Office. Volker talks about what President Zelenskiy should have done to save the conversation, and if the Minerals Deal had been signed today what that could've done for security guarantees for Ukraine. Kurt Volker speaks with Kailey Leinz and Joe Mathieu on Bloomberg's "Balance of Power."
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