Zelensky belongs t negotiating table, not Chicago

 Zelensky belongs t negotiating table, not Chicago

Tim Springer (Tribune letters, March 14) suggests Chicago should invite Ukrainian President Zelensky to Chicago to counter the claimed deplorable treatment he received by Trump in the Oval Office.

Bringing Zelensky to Chi Town will do nothing to promote peace in Ukraine ravaged by 3 years of war with no chance of battlefield success.

Zelensky belongs at the peace table in Saudi Arabia where a possible end to the war is being hammered out.

Trump did not abuse Zelensky at their recent Oval Office confrontation. Zelensky came to it looking for endless weapons to continue a lost war. Trump disabused him of that notion, telling him he has no bargaining position justifying continued war. Zelensky’s retort that Putin cannot be trusted and Russia will eventually threaten America is what prompted Trump’s pointed but necessary criticism.

Guess what? Zelensky got the message is has now signed on to a ceasefire which could begin winding down this calamitous war destroying Ukraine.

Let’s invite Zelensky to visit Chicago to celebrate the eventual peace agreement he will sign that the kerfuffle in the Oval Office is helping make possible.