Trump in effect acknowledged yesterday that they ambushed Zelenskyy on February 28. For totally noble reasons of course. He denies (the obvious) that the abrupt pause on intelligence-sharing had a role in Ukrainians losing their foothold in Kursk along with their main bargaining chip (land for land). He doesn’t discuss how a concentration of higher-value Russian forces awaited that abrupt pause with perfect timing to push Ukrainian forces out. And he doesn’t address that Ukraine’s loss of its main bargaining chip results in Russia being able to hold on to maximalist demands as we speak, while continuing deep strikes as well as land-grabbing assaults. Meanwhile, his big result is something the Biden team already negotiated for (a possible, not-yet-working agreement on mutually pausing strikes at energy infrastructures) — along with another PoW exchange, which in the past Ukraine could manage with Russia on its own, albeit rarely without difficulties.