As the world desperately searches for decent, public male role models for its sons, the stories of presidents Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Donald Trump are a useful study in contrasts. The sages who nod approvingly at Trump’s Chauncey Gardiner approach to conflict resolution – “but he asks all the right questions, right?” – might recall how the aspiring presidential candidate responded to Vladimir Putin’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. He praised Putin for his handling of the land grab from a sovereign state and predicted that “the rest of Ukraine will fall … fairly quickly”. In 2019, when the fledgling president…
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