Ex-US Military Diplomat: Zelenskyy’s White House behavior set things back

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00:00We're just hearing, in fact, the Ukrainian president has said, quote, last Friday's meeting

00:04with Donald Trump was regrettable, and it, quote, did not go the way it was supposed

00:09to go.

00:10I mean, that sounds like an apology, regret.

00:15Is that likely to have the desired effect?

00:17Is that likely to bring about a reconsidering of this opinion by the U.S. President Donald

00:25Trump?

00:26I think an apology has some weight, some value, but quite frankly, in the geostrategic realities

00:32and open combat, it has really little relevance.

00:35What matters is that Zelensky came to D.C., there was every expectation that a deal was

00:41going to get set that would put the United States and Ukraine on track for an alignment

00:45of interest in an enduring way that would include security assurances over time, maybe

00:51not explicit in the treaty.

00:52That clearly was what Zelensky was hoping, but that was beyond political potentials

00:58in D.C. right now.

01:01His behavior in the White House really set things back unnecessarily, but back in Kyiv

01:06now in the last day, we're seeing positive movement by their own parliament signaling

01:11that they acknowledge Trump's interest in a fair peace treaty.