martin armstrong has some thoughts about the ukie scenario; 

Donald Trump berated Zelenskyy on April 23, after he said Ukraine would not legally recognize Russian control over Crimea. He said he will not accept ceding any territory, even though this is against the Minsk Agreement that was supposed to allow the Donbas to vote on separation, since they are Russians who have lived there for hundreds of years.

These people have a human right to separate from Ukraine, which hates Russians, and they were killing Russians on the street in Odessa during the 2014 Revolution, which prompted this entire separatist movement. Trump recently presented a proposal to end the ongoing Russia–Ukraine war. Vice President JD Vance has indicated that the plan would freeze the fighting along the current territorial lines. Zelensky refuses to cede anything and would start immediately, wholesale discrimination and attacks on ethnic Russians in the entire region............more...........