What if Zelensky realizes, since the American embassy has cut and run, his negotiation position will only go downhill and Russia is always going to be next door, that now would be the time to cut a deal with Putin. Such as waiting until Biden gives his, "I stared down Putin." bit in the State of the Union speech, March 1st, then flies over to Moscow just to clear up a few details. Then we get pictures of he and Putin talking up the security and economics packages they just signed.

Basically America is putting its last shreds of foreign policy credibility in the hands of a Ukrainian comedian that we've hung out to dry.