Ukrainian President arrived in Washington last week for his Friday meeting at the White House armed with charts and maps showing how he planned to use U.S. help to increase pressure on Russian President to begin serious negotiations to end the more than three-and-a-half-year war. He hoped that would approve the addition of U.S. Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine’s homegrown arsenal of long-range drones to continue to degrade Russia’s oil and gas facilities.

Instead in the White House luncheon, Zelensky ran into a buzzsaw of resistance that was foreshadowed by Trump’s “ very productive ” phone call with Putin the day before, including sitting stone-faced while a reporter from Lindell TV demanded to know what “specific concessions” Zelensky would make to Putin given that “our president

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