In the Trumpist universe, diplomacy is a matter of phone calls and virile negotiations. “Having barely been elected, my first action will be to call Zelensky and Putin to tell them to make an agreement,” he said a few days before the American presidential election, triumphantly won on November 5 against Kamala Harris. A conflict, he swore, that would take him no more than a day’s work to resolve.
The bluster of such a promise should not, however, obscure the strategic reversal that could well take place in Washington regarding continued support for Ukraine. His running mate, JD Vance, hinted in a recent interview at the broad outlines of the “deal” that the Trump administration would support with kyiv and Moscow. This is the subject of our new long video format.