Russian Foreign Policy

Here's my theory.
"I'll solve Ukraine in a week" election promise.
Putin sees that he now has all the cards. (Though he did want Karmala to win coz he fell for her smile)
Trump has a phone call with Putin.
Putin plays his cards to perfection: no land given back, in fact we are constitutionally entitled to all of the Donbas, no exchange of territory for the Kursk, Europeans no way acceptable as peacekeeping force.
"Jayz" say Trump to Vance "this is not going to go down well.
In panic he stages a thirst for minerals (well he is a tee-totaler) hoping to force Z to refuse, which would establish a sort of excuse for the humiliation that Putin is about to deliver to him.
But that doesn't work, Z is prepared for some arrangement over the minerals.
So He and Vance stage this GUBU Reality TV row with Z.

I never thought that I would support Putin but I really hope he takes this opportunity to utterly humiliate T & V.
I think it could trigger an internal Republican Party coup, which I think is only a matter of time anyway. Here's hoping.

I hope Z wears a suit for the King. I'm about his height and could lend him my little ermine piece.

Itchy said:

Zelensky only got in the door of the place to sign the mining shakedown deal. But, he got played, he got baited, he took it and didn't even realise what was happening. He didn't even try to reverse course before it was too late. Major inflection point for him personally, for the war, for Europe

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he actually didn't get played because he fought back, they expected him to go in there like a lap dog and then they would humiliate and diminish him but it didn't work out like that because zelensky destroyed Vance argument about "diplomacy" with Putin, thats why they got so angry because Zelensky made them look like idiots in front of the world's media.
Also Trump can't walk away from Ukraine now as he has invested so much political capital in it now, he would then have no credibility in the Middle east and gaza. He wouldn't be able to get any deals done and would be a lame duck president, that would be the end of MAGA and Vance hope of running (he is unelectable anyway as he has no personal charisma which unfortunately Trump has)