At their now infamous meeting in the Oval Office in February, US president Donald Trump told his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky what he considered to be an important home truth: “You’re not in a very good position. You don’t have the cards right now. With us, you start having cards.”
As the pair prepare for their next meeting at his home in Florida, it seems that Mr Trump hasn’t changed his mind. Contemplating the completion of a possible peace deal brokered by his own personal envoys and the Ukrainians, the US president still sounded sceptical: “He doesn’t have anything until I approve it. So we’ll see what he’s got. I think it’s going to go good with him. I think it’s going to go good with Putin.”
