Well said by Francis Fukuyama:
"What Trump has said over the past few days about Ukraine and Russia defies belief. He has accused Ukraine of having started the war by not preemptively surrendering to Russian territorial demands; he has said that Ukraine is not a democracy; and he has said that Ukrainians were wrong to resist Russian aggression.
"These ideas are likely not ones he thought up himself, but come straight from the mouth of Vladimir Putin, a man Trump has shown great admiration for. Mee/ting in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, the United States started a direct negotiation with Moscow that excludes both Ukraine and the Europeans, and has surrendered in advance two critical bargaining chips: acceptance of Russian territorial gains to date, and a commitment not to let Ukraine enter NATO. In return, Putin has not made a single concession."
Trump, still a villain and an opportunist to the utmost, has made American concessions that were not ours to make. He has, in the manner of Munich, 1939, betrayed a vulnerable people to a dictator's ambition. The differences are that while a desperate Chamberlain was fooled by Hitler's lies, here Trump is the liar, blaming the victims and Zelensky for Russia's quite naked aggession, while knowingly playing footsy with the KGB criminal-in-chief, Putin.
