I watched a bit of the meeting, not the whole thing, but the bit where Trump and Vance started lashing out at Zelenskyy. There’s been a lot of talk about it on here, and I agree Trump and Vance are big man babies trying to bully Ukraine into an unfavorable deal, but I’m still not clear on how this affects, well, everything I guess. Can someone ELI5?
This meeting isn’t something new or out of the blue, but will likely continue current trends.
Ukraine immediately reached out to European countries for support, many of whom indicated that they would support Ukraine even if the USA didn’t. I expect this to continue the creation of some kind of post NATO European defense treaty/system without American involvement.
This will also weaken a lot of other American led security alliances given that Trump has hinted at demanding more from them as well.