To anyone who’s been a diplomat, the choreography of Donald Trump’s White House meeting with Ukrainian President Zelensky was bizarre. Its purpose was Zelensky’s signature of the US-Ukraine rare earths agreement, so the sensible disaster-avoidance strategy would have been a private meeting followed by a signing in front of the cameras, with handshakes, back-slapping and perhaps a few media questions.
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