To think that Trump is not going to honor any agreement about Ukraine

Some countries, especially the BRICS, are talking about UN peace keepers in Ukraine.

Here's a thorough analysis for those made of strong stuff.

80+ years of accumulated global soft power has now been obliterated.

Even after Trump is gone, trust in the US will be non-existent as other countries will always worry about “the next guy” tearing things up a la Trump.

Until now, governments could always trust that whether Republican or Democrat, the man behind the desk in the White House would always adhere to social norms and follow the principles established after WWII. That is gone and will take generations, if ever, to get that back.

To lower the tone somewhat - Trump is Putins bum boy and will do anything he says so I’d not be confident he’d honour any agreement outside what his hero wants. It will be interesting to see how Putin plays this as it could go tits up.

The Budapest Memoranda of 1994 offered Ukraine security guarantees backed by Russia, US and UK in return for Ukraine getting rid of its nuclear arsenal. China and France agreed similar (slightly weaker) guarantees at the same time.

So as far as I can see security guarantees are not worth the paper they are written on where the US is concerned.

Agreements entered into under duress aren't legally binding. Can't establish whether it meets the international threshold for economic duress as I'm not a lawyer but good luck to the USA to enforce it down the line. In any case, if Putin wants the metals, he'll go after them and he has already secured substantial reserves as I understand in the disputed areas currently under Russian occupation.

Either way the whole thing leaves a very bad taste. Trump has essentially twisted Zellenskys arm behind his back like the massive bully he is, in full view of the whole world and both USA and Russia are now blatant in that the whole thing, the tens of thousands dead, maimed and injured was over resources which would have been sold to the highest bidder and freely available on global markets irrespective.

I agree.
Trump loves Putin.

Trump wants to work with Putin and I doubt either will honour any agreements. They've both broken them anyway. When Ukraine gave up their weapons, they were promised that Russia wouldn't invade and the US would help protect them.

There's talk of Musk giving Russia use of Starlink. They've gone to the dark side.

Trump has no honour so he won’t.

The trick is, I think, to get something agree that doesn’t require him to do anything in his term of office, or where anything he might have to do is in his self interest.

Trump changes his mind with every bowel movement it seems. He's not even a functional person, let alone a responsible or trustworthy one. Probably has a personality disorder and we all know how much chaos and misery they can cause.

I think the only leverage Ukraine has are the minerals, but I can't even imagine how that's going to work. The world is in for a chaotic four years.