Trump and Vance never wanted a deal with Ukraine that involved Ukraine getting a security deal, which is the main point for Zelenskyy.
Trump and MAGA only care about the rare minerals underground in Ukraine, but the majority of the rare minerals are in areas occupied by Russia.
Sidelining Ukraine means the Trump administration can do a direct deal with Russia without Ukraine getting a cut from its own minerals.
These mercenary actions by Trump are not new. When asked about the war in Iraq in 2017, Trump said, "We should have taken their oil."
BREAKING NEWS: Trump just announced that his administration is pausing military aide to Ukraine.
Trump called Zelenskyy a dictator and blamed Ukraine for being invaded.
However, in relation to Russia, the Trump administration has disbanded efforts to seize assets from Russian oligarchs and put a halt to combatting secret influencers by Russia, didn't accuse Putin of being a dictator, and didn't blame Russia for starting the war.
If I had written the above ten years ago about a sitting American pr…