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how's history going to judge Trump's insistence in February that Ukraine should have ceded land before being invaded
...partly on the pretext that Ukraine was planning on asking to join NATO?
Speaking after talks between US and Russia on ending the war, the US President told Ukraine: “You should have never started it, you could have made a deal … I could have made a deal that would have given them almost all of the land.”
...or, now?
After his meeting with Mr. Putin, Mr. Trump has dropped his demand for an immediate cease-fire and believes a rapid peace treaty can be negotiated, so long as Mr. Zelensky agrees to cede the rest of the Donbas region to Russia, even those areas not occupied by Russian troops.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/16/world/europe/trump-putin-ukraine-land-swap.html