“Far-right activist Jack Posobiec traveled to Ukraine with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and was in the room when the secretary greeted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy ahead of their private meeting,“ Politico reports.

“Earlier this week… Posobiec was invited to travel with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, sparking alarm from some in the defense world. But the MAGA influencer says he instead opted to travel to Ukraine with Bessent, whose team reached out to Posobiec before the trip was made public. He was invited as media in his role as an influencer.”

“Posobiec — whose record of far-right activism includes promoting conspiracy theories and associating with white nationalists — has long been a controversial figure, and would have been considered fringe during prior administrations. But now, he’s in position to bear witness to key moments on one of the world’s most consequential issues.”

“Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky rejected a Trump administration request this week that Kyiv hand over 50 percent of its rare-earth mineral resources in exchange for continued U.S. assistance to the war-struck country,” the Washington Post reports.

“Ukrainian officials are working on a counterproposal that would still offer Washington more access to the country’s natural resources.”

President Volodymyr Zelensky told NBC News that Ukraine had a low chance of surviving Russia’s assault without U.S. support.

Said Zelensky: “Probably it will be very, very, very difficult. And of course, in all the difficult situations, you have a chance. But we will have low chance — low chance to survive without support of the United States.”

NBC News: “His comments were aired on the first day of the Munich Security Conference, where hundreds of anxious European diplomats and others gathered expecting to hear Vice President JD Vance speak about President Trump’s strategy to broker peace negotiations with Russia to end the war in Ukraine.”

“President Trump stunned, strangled and humiliated Europe — leaving America’s closest continental ally dazed and dumbfounded,” Axios reports.

“That was over the course of three short days this week.”

“No amount of ‘Trump-proofing’ could have prepared Europe for the MAGA-shaped hurricane that swept across the continent this week, wreaking torrential havoc on America’s closest allies.”

New York Times: Vance shocks Europe with a message that he has long promoted at home.

“Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany on Saturday accused Vice President JD Vance of unacceptably interfering in his country’s imminent elections on behalf of a party that has played down the atrocities committed by the Nazis 80 years ago,” the New York Times reports.

“A day after Mr. Vance stunned the Munich Security Conference by telling German leaders to drop their so-called firewall and allow the hard-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD, to enter their federal government, Mr. Scholz accused Mr. Vance of effectively violating a commitment to never again allow Germany to be led by fascists who could repeat the horrors of the Holocaust.”