As Putin's greatest asset, Trump has always made it clear that his intention is to ensure total Russian control of Ukraine. The "negotiations" are no different from the "negotiations" Neville Chamberlain had with Adolf Hitler: unconditional appeasement. Historians will puzzle over why Trump was so eager to destroy Western civilization, but few will bother to mention that qualification-free representative democracy is what enabled Trump to move from being a trash TV-show freak to being the man who tore down the West.