It appears that Trump is blackmailing Zelensky with an unfair deal. Trump is holding Zelensky and the Ukraine to ransom with an unfair deals that offers the Ukraine nothing. Zelensky was right to not sign this one sided agreement that would have enabled America to have access to rare earth minerals in the Ukraine. Trump could be viewed as extorting Zelensky and the Ukraine with a deal that offers them no security guarantees a all. Zelensky and the Ukraine don’t need a trade deal with America and it seems that America would argueably benefit from such a deal and the Ukraine no so much. So is Trump blackmaing Zelensky in some form of victim erxploitation taking advantage of the Ukraine’s predicament?
That deal amounted to pure blackmail and the arrangements offered the Ukraine no guarantees of future security against Putin. In fact they were totally worthless. The deal amounted to blackmail. For example the American workers boots on the ground holds no sway at all to prevent further Russian aggression because what is the first thing that foreign countries do to protect their citizens abroad is to tell them that they have to get out of the country quickly. Therefore there was no guarantees against further Russian aggression in that deal at all. The whole purpose was to blackmail the Ukrainian President because they find themselves in a difficult position. This is clearly a matter of victim abuse.
This is Trump and Vance trying to bully Zelensky and the Ukraine to exploit their vulnerability
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