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Trump: "The U.S., out of respect for President Trump, was not required to give anything in return.” Trump literally twelve minutes later: "If sanctions would have been placed, certainly those negotiations would have come to a complete and total halt.” So let’s kill some Ukrainian citizens. Idiot!

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The tell is the sequence. First nothing was traded, then sanctions were admitted to be the one lever keeping Moscow at the table. Remove it and Putin reads it as permission to keep grinding. Kyiv pays for that pause in lives.