After U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance staged a tag-team humiliation of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at an Oval Office press conference last week, Harvard experts on foreign relations and Ukraine called the spectacle “absurd” and disappointing.

The Trump-Zelensky meeting stunned American observers and was widely celebrated by allies of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Peter Baker, a veteran journalist and former Moscow correspondent for the New York Times, compared the White House’s decision to Kremlin tactics.

The White House called a report that President Donald Trump’s administration plans to revoke the temporary legal status of 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the war as “fake news” on Tuesday. Reuters reported,

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The dramatic events at the White House have drawn reactions from many world leaders. The BBC notes that there has been no such reaction from Vladimir Putin. Other Russian politicians have been much less restrained.

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Even conservatives are losing sense of what Donald Trump is trying to achieve right now, because between needlessly antagonizing two U.S. allies and emboldening an enemy to come for even bigger pieces,

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