Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky asked President Trump this week to lean on Chinese leader Xi Jinping to pressure Moscow into ending its invasion — a request that would rope the United States into brokering between two nuclear-armed adversaries in a conflict where American interests remain undefined and over $100 billion in taxpayer aid has already been spent with zero accountability.
Zelensky told reporters Friday that he urged Trump to press Xi to use Beijing's influence over the Kremlin, according to the New York Post. He said he has not yet received feedback from the White House about Trump's talks with Xi but expects to learn the outcome. The request came during a meeting Tuesday in New York, where Zelensky was courting more international support on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
Here is the stakes question no one in Washington wants to answer: what exactly is the American interest in inserting ourselves between Beijing and Moscow? NATO itself has called China a
