For the Ukrainian leader, there\u2019s no coming back from the debacle. His country\u2019s best hope now lies with Europe<\/p>\n
No matter their position on the Russia-Ukraine war, people who view the televised encounter<\/a> between Donald Trump<\/a> and Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a> in the Oval Office will likely be shocked. It didn\u2019t morph into a full-on screaming match, but it came close.<\/p>\n The meeting might have gone sideways anyway, but JD Vance<\/a>\u2019s presence ensured that it became ugly<\/a> \u2013 and quickly. The vice-president spoke over Zelenskyy, accused him of ingratitude for the assistance provided by the United States (\u201cHave you ever said thank you?\u201d) and of disrespecting Trump<\/a>, his host, and, for good measure, scolded him for litigating his country\u2019s case in public. That raised the temperature \u2013 a lot.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the Ukrainian leader, there\u2019s no coming back from the debacle. His country\u2019s best hope now lies with Europe No matter their position on the Russia-Ukraine war, people who view the televised encounter between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office will likely be shocked. It didn\u2019t morph into a full-on screaming match, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}