In the wake of high-level Ukraine peace talks, including last Friday’s meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Alaska, and a Monday meeting between Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and myriad European leaders, mainstream media mainstays have been quick to ridicule the engagements, often passing them off simply as an effort by Trump to appease Putin. Multiple media organizations, including AP, CBS, and MSNBC zeroed in on how Trump was giving Putin the “r...
