A decision to negotiate over the heads of the Ukrainians would reveal just how Trump sees Ukraine and Europe.
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I see a better parallel with the partition of Poland in Molotov-Ribbentrop pact with these talks. The Munich Agreement was the Minsk agreements and letting russia have Crimea.