THE press briefing on Feb 28 by US president Donald Trump, vice-president JD Vance and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky could not have been missed by any historian. In front of a global audience, another Roman gladiator was ritually executed in the 21st Century.
Trump gave a lesson in brutal realpolitik to the world when he told Zelensky that “you don’t have the cards right now. With us, you start having cards... You’re gambling with World War III”.
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