Maybe Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy should write the Art of the Deal

Maybe Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy should write the Art of the Deal
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. (Image: Getty)
Bloomberg
By Marc ChampionMaybe it’s Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy who should be writing books about the art of negotiation.For a while, it looked as though he’d made a huge miscalculation by highlighting the opportunities available to allies in exploiting his nation’s natural resources. The idea was to interest the famously transactional Donald Trump in Ukraine’s defence, and it seemed a clever ruse at the time. In the event, it almost blew up a military relationship critical to Ukraine’s survival,...

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