Trump told Zelensky, the president of a country that has been successfully withstanding an invasion by a nuclear superpower for just over three years, that without (wildly inflated) U.S. assistance, Ukraine would have disappeared in about two weeks.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky got into an unusually heated exchange in the Oval Office on Friday, as Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance berated Ukraine’s leader for being ungrateful and pressured him to make a deal with Russia, only
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