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- Jul 19, 2020
I think there's merit to this. Trump can just announce it himself before its even signed by Ukraine, "War's over, we've got a deal, all good" and leave it to big Z to either shit on the parade and his most important military ally and supporter by saying "No", or leave Z to deal with it when he nods along, because the alternative is Trump announcing "Well we brokered a deal, the best deal we could, and Ukraine immediately violated the conditions of the deal, my deal, insulting me personally, so we're not going to help them, and we're not going to help anyone who helps them".It is the kind of negotiations that takes 15 minutes, where Trump asks "what do you need", Putin tells him his demands, Trump says "sounds good, they shake hands and the war is over".
He'll have his campaign promise to bring an end to the war one way or another, and if Z tries to keep fighting, he's fucked. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a breaking point for the AFU morale if he did try to keep fighting imagine being told "War's over" and then shortly after "Zelensky rejected the end to the war, back to the trenches before the blocking units shoot you."
Its definitely an optimistic take, but hey, I'm feeling pretty optimistic right now. A lot of "This will never happens" have started happening in just the last three days, what's one more to the pile.