Bessent: here was this elegant plan which turned into a media circus B: I think President Zelensky unfortunately escalated and put some day light R: How did he escalate? 1/

B: A lot of his remarks in Munich I thought were inappropriate. (Yeah, and Vance’s remarks were ok?) 2/

B: This turned into a media circus. President Trump had a very elegant plan. Bring the Ukrainians closer to the U.S. let’s do this economics deal. 3/

The U.S. with a better economic interest in Ukraine provides a security shield 4/

The sequencing: get Ukrainians closer in economic terms, convince the American people, and the get Russians to the negotiation table, against sanctions. 5/

This sounds great, in my view, in the theory. In practice, you can’t ram into Zelensky the demand to give up economics sovereignty. But also what if Putin says no? What’s the leverage? Give Putin everting? 6/

It is clear to me that Zelensky escalate in response to the IS behaving like a bully. Zelensky is a war hardened politician. He doesn’t take bullying from Putin, he won’t from Trump. But the opposite is true- Trump expects everyone to bow. I hope they find a coming ground 7X

Sure Comrade, sure.

The Trump plan was pure extortion. He got it from Putin.

🇺🇦 wants to win the war and join 🇪🇺 & NATO. The 🇪🇺 wants all those things for Ukraine & wants to help. 🇺🇸 wants to save Russia from defeat, weaken Europe & steal 🇺🇦’s mineral wealth. Europe will be stronger & safer with a free 🇺🇦 in its family.

So give us half your minerals and we’ll do nothing for you other than tick up sanctions on Russia? Lol.