But these were just the opening episodes in the made-for-TV drama, Donald Trump: World Peacemaker. If all goes to plan – still far from certain – the third show will feature a bilateral meeting between Volodymyr Zelensky and Vladimir Putin at an undetermined location, and the fourth will be a trilateral summit with Trump. This will be the “room where it happens” and a settlement to the war is achieved.
Trump was all smiles and bonhomie as he welcomed Zelensky to the White House, patting him on the back and clasping him by the neck with a proprietorial air as if the Ukrainian leader was a favourite pet.
European leaders including Sir Keir Starmer, were more than willing to humour Trump in this role. The effusive compliments and thank-you’s came thick and fast – Starmer opened his speech that way – and Zelensky, in his best, black “combat” suit, looked thrilled, or pretended to be, by the outcome of his own sit-down with the President after receiving the hair-dryer treatment in February.
With a thoughtful touch, the Ukrainian leader handed Trump a letter – “not to you, to your wife” – from his wife, Olena. In it she graciously thanked Melania for her letter to Putin imploring him to protect the “innocence” of children suffering from war. It was just the sort of thing the President of Love in his gilded palace would appreciate.
All those bigwigs were there for three reasons: to serve as Zelensky’s honour guard, to press Trump to join them in providing “article five” Nato-style security guarantees for Ukraine (helpfully put in air quotes by Georgia Meloni, the Italian prime minister) and to argue for a ceasefire so Russia can’t keep nibbling away at more of Ukraine.
This was putting the cart before the horse. Because unless Putin and Zelensky can agree a deal on what constitutes Ukraine’s eastern border with Russia – does it start at the Donbas, or can Ukraine hang on to its “fortress belt” of cities like Sloviansk, Krematorsk and Kostiantynivka? – peace talks could very well collapse.
Will Trump turn on his friend “Vladimir”, impose harsh sanctions and ramp up arms shipments to Ukraine? Or, more likely – and far more worryingly – will he start bullying Zelensky again and tell him to hand over all of the Donbas in the interests of “peace”?
With Trump, it’s all about Me, Me, Me. He needs to understand there will be no Nobel if he gives away the Donbas to Russia. If Putin wants to gratify Trump the Peacemaker, he can’t keep pushing his luck.
Sarah Baxter is Director of the Marie Colvin Center for International Reporting
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