Thread by @jaycurrie

Reaction to today's Oval Office activities are an absolutely accurate indicator of the pro or anti-Trump sentiments of those reacting. From Euro astroturf in support of Z to subsidy journalists rising as one to condemn the bullying, they all hate Trump. 1/

For those of us who are not particularly offput by Trump 2.0 and his team, it was a rare glimpse into the way serious politicians are able to spot and slap down a phoney if he goes off script. 2/

There was a mineral deal on the table and there were 40 minutes of conversation of which only a few had Zelensky wandering into dangerous ground. For the TDS brigade the fact there was any dangerous ground was obviously Trump's fault. 3/

Zelensky occupies a strange position. If you don't support him you are a Putin puppet and, now a Trump tool. The idea of Peace in Ukraine on anything but Zelensky's terms is unthinkable to the blob. That would be conceding to Putin. 4/

Trump telling Zelensky that he had no cards to play offended every Eurocrat, USAID recipient and deep stater. There are some truths we just don't talk about, you brute. 5/

Trump's a realist. He knows Ukraine is not winning. It's losing (and after today's Zelensky tantrum, has probably lost.) Not winning is getting in the way of Peace. Which Trump is not willing to put up with. 6/

Supporting Zelensky ensures that the pointless, unwinnable war continues. A Peace Treaty which conceded the eastern, Russian speaking, parts of Ukraine already occupied by Russia, ends the war on about the best terms Ukraine can hope for. 7/

You may hate Trump and think Putin the devil incarnate, but prolonging a futile war for even one day longer is evil. A fact which Trump knows but which blob members are willing to live with in order to signal a bizarre, pointless, sort of virtue. 8/

With luck Zelensky's behaviour in the Oval Office today will end any but humanitarian aid to Ukraine. At that point the final pretense that Ukraine can "win" will disolve and with it, I suspect, Ukraine's Army. Why die in a lost cause. 9/

The Euros will breathe a sigh of relief, they did not want to take on the military and monetary responsibility of Ukraine. They can't afford it. Zelensky will, if he's lucky, go into exile. Then we'll see what can be salvaged. It will be a nasty business but not as nasty as war. 10/10