For Trump, Putin is more important than Ukraine. Can Europe step in?

When President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine met with US President Donald Trump and Vice President J D Vance in the Oval Office on February 28, a curious feature was that this meeting was held under the full glare of the press, replete with cameras. The conversation between Trump, Vance and Zelenskyy started out amicably enough with Trump welcoming him to the White House. However, when a reporter from the press pool asked Vance a question, matters quickly unravelled. Vance proceeded to disparage the Biden administration's policies toward Ukraine and then suggested that Trump was offering a diplomatic pathway to end…