It’s odd to send the Treasury Secretary rather than the Secretary of State to end a war but Trump seems to be angling towards some kind of rare earths deal, even though most of the rare earths are in the part of Ukraine that Russia has already won.
In any case, here is Trump’s post:
I am sending Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent to Ukraine to meet President Zelensky. This War MUST and WILL END SOON — Too much Death and Destruction. The U.S. has spent BILLIONS of Dollars Globally, with little to show. WHEN AMERICA IS STRONG, THE WORLD IS AT PEACE.
You wonder how much Putin feels he need to negotiate with this kind of rhetoric.
