Can Ukraine survive Trump?

Although the U.S. president will try to bully Ukraine into accepting Russia’s terms, there is no evidence that Ukraine is really on the brink of defeat.

U.S. President Donald Trump, right, will probably insist once again that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has ‘no cards,’ and must submit, but that wasn’t true then and it isn’t true now, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Flickr/The White House

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

May 20, 2025

LONDON, U.K.—We are getting very close to the point where United States President Donald Trump realizes that his dear friend Vladimir Putin has been playing him for a fool. The Russian president never had the slightest intention of moderating his war aims, which include th...

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