So what we do know is Donald Trump has had a 90 minute phone conversation with Vladimir Putin to end the Ukraine war. Putin has expressed his willingness to end the war in Ukraine, well yeah, Russia lost the war when they failed to take Kiev in the first weeks of the invasion.

Trump is 6.3 in height and Putin stands at 5.7, but what we are seeing is the smaller man out negotiating Trump like he is an amateur. Trump is the president of the greater nation in terms of GDP and military might, yet we see where the intellectual power is. Putin is the shrewder negotiator here, this is no art of the deal, unless Trump has some concealed move he is willing to pull out and surprise everyone, what we are witnessing is a capitulation here.

Trump likes to be seen as a winner, he is looking nothing like a winner right now, he is coming across as a genuine loser and it will be Ukraine that pays the price. It appears Trump will just abandon Ukraine and embolden Russia for future military engagements. One expects Russia to go back, rebuild their military, learn some lessons and come back in a few years stronger and better prepared. None of this is a great outcome for Ukraine, they are really exposed here.