2025-03-01
37 分钟Hey, it's Aaron Blake,
senior politics reporter and host of our weekly Politics Roundtables here on Post reports.
It's Friday, February 28th.
All right,
we're going to do things a little bit differently today
because I wanted to get to some breaking news first.
This happened after we recorded our roundtable on Friday morning.
And what happened is one of the most contentious exchanges between world leaders that we've ever seen.
This played out at the White House this afternoon in front of the cameras.
And it was an encounter that, as my colleagues at the Post put it,
could determine a generation of war and peace in Europe.
Okay, so Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy came to Washington.
He was sat in the Oval Office with President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. vance this afternoon,
and he was there to urge Trump not to abandon Ukraine in its war against Russia.
The meeting starts off cordially.
One thing to remind you of is that Trump just last week had called Zelenskyy a, quote, dictator.
And not only that, Trump also blamed Ukraine for starting,
even though it was Moscow that invaded Ukraine.
So anyways, the meeting starts out fine, but pretty quickly,
Vance and Zelenskyy engage with a bit of a disagreement about the role of diplomacy in ending the war in Ukraine.