By Marc Champion

There’s every reason to believe leaked accounts that a shouting match erupted between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy when they met in Washington last week. We’ve seen it before, after all, on camera. The US president appears to be back on board with helping Russia browbeat Ukraine into accepting a deal that would hand Vladimir Putin territory he’s been trying to conquer since 2014.

What’s reportedly on offer wouldn’t achieve peace. It would be yet another attempt by Putin to secure by diplomatic means the strategic breakthrough he’s been unable to win on the battlefield. To accept would mean certain disaster for Kyiv. To refuse risks the same.

Trump, according to a Financial Times report, cursed freely during Friday’s meeting, at one point sweeping aside maps of t

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