With the defence secretary, John Healey, away in Brussels, the poor person left to explain the government’s position on Ukraine to the Commons was the junior defence minister, Maria Eagle.
Trump promised to deliver peace to Ukraine on day one of his presidency, but it took him until now to come up with a plan.
For the real message is: “Always let someone else take the hit.” After all, it wasn’t Trump who was left out of pocket when his hotels and casinos six times filed for bankruptcy between 1991 and 2009 due to an inability to meet scheduled payments.
Because far from demanding the impossible to get as much as he could, Trump gave away almost everything in the first round of talks.
And when he said that Ukraine should have no say in its own future, what he really meant was Ukraine should be cut into the loop.
