Jack Keane: Zelenskyy Lectured Trump by Saying Putin Violated a Cease-Fire Agreement in 2016 During His Presidency

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GIGOT: “The president canceled the  planned signing ceremony for  mineral rights deal in the wake  of the clash telling Zelenskyy  to come back when he is ready  for peace.  for more on what is next I’m  joined by Fox News senior  strategic analyst Jack Keane.  welcome, good to see you.  my view of this exchange,  putting my cards on the table  is the big winner was a Putin.  this wasn’t good for Zelenskyy  or Ukraine or the president.  what do you think?”

Keane: “That is indisputable.  Vladimir Putin from the outset  was trying to do everything he  could to separate Zelenskyy  from the United States and from  European support and that is  what he is about strategically,  to break the transatlantic  alliance and separate the  United States from our European  allies.  you are absolutely right in  that sense.  a couple things on this.  it is unprecedented to have  this kind of grievance and  frustration in front of the  media.  there was a meeting prior to  this where the press was not at  it.  I’m not sure how long it talk  because it was cordial, but  this meeting was anything but  cordial.  the reality is many of the  grievances existed the were  displayed in front of the media  sounds like what was really  going on in that prior meeting.  Trump and his team do not like  Zelenskyy.  the lenski has two fundamental  disagreements from a policy  perspective going forward, one  is he wants the president to be  his partner going into  negotiations with Russia.  he favors Ukraine in those  negotiations, Trump takes a  different stand believing in  personal diplomacy.  he sees himself in negotiations  as a mediator between  Zelenskyy, Ukraine and Vladimir  Putin and China, he’s willing  to promote his adversary,  Vladimir Putin.  Trump knows he is a thug,  killer, manipulator, he invaded  Ukraine and wants to enhance  the relationship so we can get  a compromise.  the lenski reasons that.  Zelenskyy talked about a lot,  guarantees of security from a  future attack by Vladimir Putin  after a deal has taken place  because that is what Vladimir  Putin has done in the past, he  will break the deal and  Zelenskyy is concerned about  that.  we can get that after the deal  is done and that’s not hard to  do and interesting enough, in  this session, just about 20  minutes prior to the blowup,  Trump mentions the British and  French will provide  peacekeepers after the deal is  done and conceivably, what an  opening in that meeting,  Zelenskyy should have jumped in  on that and enforced that.  it went by and that’s a  departure from all previous  statements Donald Trump has  said by us troops after a deal  has been made.  the second thing, and I think  this started the blowup,  Zelenskyy absolutely believes  when you go to a cease-fire,  you’ve got to be prior to that  some guarantees that there is  going to be sick here ready.  Trump believes it is after.  what happened here, Zelenskyy  when responding to a question  Trump answered began to lecture  on cease-fires, saying there’d  been 25 cease-fire’s letter  Putin has violated, he violated  one when you were president, he  said no, Zelenskyy said yes in  2016.  at that point Trump stopped  looking at Zelenskyy talking  and began looking at the  ground, Zelenskyy kept going on  saying we would not go into a  cease-fire knowing Zelenskyy is  not going to accept a  cease-fire that Trump is  negotiating with Vladimir Putin  unless there are guarantees of  security in his future.  I am saying to myself after  having watched this thing two  more times, what is Zelenskyy  thinking?  he’s in a meeting with Trump  and his staff and the media is  attending it and he is  rejecting a successful  cease-fire that Trump would  negotiate with Vladimir Putin  and is lecturing the president  about it on top of that.  I think that is what stimulated  at some point some 20 minutes  later Vance to intervene on the  president’s behalf because he  felt he was being insulted and  Zelenskyy again deflecting  Vance, just moving on, he began  to debate him, went downhill  from there and the president  began to defend Vance.”