“You’re gambling with World War Three,” President Trump bellowed at President Zelensky of Ukraine. “And what you’re doing is very disrespectful to the country.”
The meeting in the Oval Office, which had begun cordially, had descended into a shouting match. “You have not said thank you once,” sniped JD Vance, the vice-president, seated at Trump’s left-hand side.
“From the very beginning of the war we’ve been alone,” Zelensky hit back. “And we are thankful. I said thanks.”
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“If you didn’t have our military equipment, this war would have been over in two weeks,” Trump said.
“In three days,” Zelensky said. “I heard it from Putin. In three days.”
Trump leant forward, his face a thunderstorm. “It’s going to be very hard to do business like
