Calvin Coolidge once declared, “The chief business of the American people is business.” Even while the previous administration mainly forgot that, it turns out that one of our allies has a better grasp — and understands that he needs to business with the new administration.
Donald Trump got elected in part on a wave of skepticism about foreign aid, especially in Ukraine, where over a hundred billion dollars of materiel and aid went without much accounting for its use. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky understands that Trump wants to force an end to the conflict, and is inclined to cut off the aid spigot in any case that keeps Ukraine from falling to Russia.
Today, Zelensky offered Trump an interest in a free Ukraine, in every sense of the word:
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pored over a once-classified map of vast deposits of rare earths…
