As Trump sits down with Putin....he ought to center on four central topics:
1. What's the current demographics situation of Russia, and this Russia-ethnic area of Ukraine? It's dismal. Within the past month...Russia classified all demographics data....you can't talk about it....without facing charges.
2. What's the financial situation for Russia currently? It's crap and like some third-world country. Banks are pretty close to failure, and most Russias...if given a chance to exit....will leave.
3. Where is the bold plan of fixing this three Ukrainian states that Russia is all intent on 'taking'? Crap plan? Non-existent? Are you taking an area to convert into some Russian ghetto in five years?
4. Finally, if you take the three districts....do you (Putin) really think NATO will sit idlily by and not massively bulk-up for the next confrontation?
Putin will sit there and silently agree....there is no advantage to taking the three districts, and that he needs a massive recovery in terms of the economy.
Trump will lay down twenty-odd recovery projects....that the US and Russia could engage upon.
Maybe by the end....the war just ends....no lines changed on the map. Maybe.