From the meeting of Finnish expert Zelensky and Trump: “This is unprecedented” | Foreign countries

Generally, valid diplomatic rules were forgotten in the White House, comments Benita Heiskanen, professor of North American research.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyin Meeting US President Donald Trump with the end of a crying match when a vice-president JD VANCE And Trump began to blame the Zelensky for ungrateful.

Professor of North American Research Benita Heiskanen The University of Turku describes meeting the presidents as exceptional.

– After all, this is unprecedented, I have not proven this kind of press conference before. Usually the rules of diplomacy carry a press conference, Heiskanen comments.

Heiskanen highlights that Zelenskyi was prepared to use a world -class scene using the Russian president Vladimir from Putin Words killer and terrorist and bringing his own arsenal of photo.

– This particularly rubbed Vice President JD Vance.

According to him, the debate was heard in the debate, which was not used to. For example, during the meeting, Trump described Zelensky during the meeting with the words “Tough Guy” or “hard dude” and pointed out that Zelensky had no cards to play in his situation.

Discussion about two different things

According to Heiskanen, Zelenskyi and Trump spoke at two levels at the meeting.

– Zelenskyi talked more about post -war safety, while Trump talked about massage trade relations. They looked at the situation through different lenses, Heiskanen says.

One of the focal points of the meeting was to sign a mineral agreement between the United States and Ukraine. However, the mineral agreement was not signed, says the White House.

Heiskanen describes the mineral agreement as a straw that allows you to advance to the next level in discussions.

-This (mineral agreement) was detailed that there would be a dug in the workers, and the raw materials will be used for artificial intelligence and also for the weapons industry. But if there is no agreement now, I don’t know, Heiskanen says.

According to Heiskanen, whether any following meetings are equally firefighted, they cannot yet know.