If there was any doubt that the United States had switched sides in the war between Ukraine and Russia, and in the battle between autocracy and democracy, it was shattered in front of a watching world in the Oval Office on Friday afternoon.
What should have been a routine greeting with the press at the White House descended into an explosive row between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and President Donald Trump, goaded on by JD Vance, who played the role of a sycophantic Mr Smee to Trump’s erratic Captain Hook.
