Inside the 139 minutes that upended the US-Ukraine alliance
White House chefs were at work in the West Wing on Friday (local time) laying out plates of rosemary chicken, celery root puree and collard greens when the sound of raised voices began floating over from the Oval Office.
Inside, a remarkable scene was unfolding. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance had begun berating their guest, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in a hitherto unseen public implosion of a key global relationship.
For supporters of Ukraine, the moment was disastrous: Everything that could have gone wrong in a meeting between two headstrong leaders did, in the span of 10 minutes.
Inside the 139 minutes that upended the US-Ukraine alliance. (CNN)
Yet for all the shock, it was not an unforeseen outcome. Indeed, in the lead up ...