El Rey Dotardo II is so eager to be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize that he is willing to sell Ukraine into servitude to get there. He is not an honest broker of peace, and when he talks to Vlad the Mystery Caller on March 18, El Rey will make any and all ridiculous promises, to try to bring about what he claimed would be easy, i.e., resolving the war in 24 hours. Of course, when he goes back to Z to tell him what has been agreed upon, the Ukrainians will find it difficult to restrain their anger.
Trump is trying to box Ukraine in, by threatening to permanently ceasing intelligence, stopping arms shipments, and probably also turning off Starlink (doing so would make Leon Skum complicit in any slaughter of Ukrainians). Ukraine will refuse these terms, which will be better for Vlad than what Hitler got from Chamberlain in 1938. What's left of the Russian death machine will roll on, Ukraine will die a more public death than Kitty Genovese, and the stature of the US on the world stage will be reduced to that of a janitorial crew, cleaning up after all others...
Hey there, Scotty: All this talk about waste, fraud and abuse leads one to wonder (1) what are the names and locations of all the fraudsters who have been identified by the Muskrats, and have criminal charges been filed against any of these miscreants? (2) How come on one has pulled aside our putative king, and asked him, in the name of government efficiency, to pay for his own golf game travel and security? Recall that he's 'really, really rich', and (3) is having world-class weather prediction, air traffic control, or the ability to identify and counteract a pandemic your idea of 'waste, fraud and abuse'? Asking for a country...