When things started to go badly awry in the Oval Office last Friday, Donald Trump was asked by a reporter what would happen if Russia broke the peace agreement.
Increasingly frustrated at the resistance of Volodymyr Zelensky to the unconditional surrender of his country, the president of the United States of America expostulated: “What if anything? What if a bomb drops on your head right now?” After a short “Trump weave” invoking Hunter Biden, he concluded that the Russians would not dare to invade because “they respect me”.