To be fair, that statement is certainly true. The same could be said about the US policy of open borders (and countless others) ... times changed, leadership changed, and policy changed.
“Zelensky’s efforts appear to be little more than another theatrical scene designed to demonstrate to the world his (insincere) willingness to sue for peace.” At the same time, Putin’s special phone calls with Trump are all peace and light, despite the fact that Putin is following Alexandr Dugin’s 1997 plan to conquer Eurasia and control much of the rest of the world. The Russian is to continue fighting and gaining territory in Ukraine even if the war must continue for 10 more years or longer.
As to anything Z might have said concerning life and death of leaders, Putin is probably a lot more likely to die than Trump. There are people in Russia at every level who are very angry at what he is doing. There are people at the top with their own private armies who would prefer peace and business. There are many bereaved family members who have been cheated of the death payments for their lost soldiers.
Russia took 180,000 criminals out of prison, and promised freedom if they survived service. Some of them are back home and there have been over 500 murders by soldiers, half by exconvicts. Prigozhin took 50,000 prisoners out of jail as recruits for his Wagner paramilitary. He fought for his recruits and was probably murdered by Putin. Then Putin plowed up the special cemetery Prigozhin had made for his fallen troops. Leaving desecrated ground with no graves marked for any bereaved family or fellow soldiers. These people are angry and the soldiers know how to kill people.
Zelensky seemed quite calm in Florida. I suspect he knew Putin would pull some trick to avoid moving toward peace. THe phony “drone attack” on one of Putin’s many homes is a hoax, but it gives Putin the excuse for not moving forward on the peace he really does not want. The story about large numbers of Ukraine drones attacking the Putin home has been disproved by no evidence of either 80+ or 40+ drones tracked from Ukraine base to target, or leaving any burning or debris after a visit. Only fools believe the lies coming from the Kremlin.
Read this book report to see what plans Dugin started feeding Putin in 1997, which Putin began following soon after.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
Here is the advice on what Putin should do to damage the US and Canada: “Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke “Afro-American racists” to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should “introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics”.[9]”
Have you noticed any of these activities being carried out secretly by Russian “special services”? Have any “isolationists” shown up at FR suggesting we should ignore the rest of the world, and concentrate on the US alone. Putin is Trump’s buddy, surely Putin has no intentions of destroying the MAGA program.