I appreciate your cogent & fairly accurate analysis but I must disagree on one central & crucial point: our president & aspiring dictator is a pathetic & desperately ego-starved child-man in constant need of affirmation. Even with his bitch-boy Schvantz holding his soiled ass up supportively, he needs the stroking to maintain an illusion of non-flaccidity, metaphorically speaking. Zelenskyy has proven himself as a bold leader, but he is also experienced as a PERFORMER, he was as much a TV star as trump, albeit in different format, tho' he worked in comedy so that might have made him more suited for politics. My point was that as a performer, & given his nation's very existence is on the line, he could have prepped for this disastrous meeting by playing the obsequious suck-ass for the cameras. It would have made dumpster smile & the public face of a good meeting would have meant that much more difficulty from his own side & to protect his fragile public persona for trumpf to do the inevitable 180.