Or perhaps he does and simply isn’t being transparent with his true objectives for America. He did say everything was going to plan, after all …

I think they’ll use approving this deal as leverage for tariff relief.

I mean it’s very clear the issue here is Vladdy just proposed they stop attacking energy infrastructure yesterday. The things Ukraine did were actually prior to yesterday, and therefore no agreement existed at the time, hence the outrage.

Cease fires don’t usually include a “but I get to bop you one more time before we honor our agreement” clause.