Zelenskyy acrimony, ambush, US/UKR

A meeting between Zelenskyy and Tr-ance in the White House broke up in acrimony.

They tried to bully him into selling Ukraine's mineral resources without getting military support in return, by attacking him and Ukraine. He responded civilly to the points they made, while sticking to his negotiating position. They searched for and found ways to interpret his words as attacks so they could counterattack to bully more.

A journalist called this an "ambush", and maybe it was.

I think that they set up the meeting so they could bully him very harshly, and even planned ending the meeting with insults if he did not give them what they wanted.

Including Vance in the meeting looks to me like a tactic to make the argument two-against-one and thus be nastier.