Following Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s direct talks with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, in the Riyadh summit, President Donald Trump mocked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s complaints about his exclusion. “Today I heard, ‘Oh, well, we weren’t invited,’” Trump said about the Ukrainian leader. “Well, you’ve been there for three years. You should have ended it — three years. You should have never been there. You should have never started it. You should have made a deal.”

To say Trump’s accusations are detached from reality would be an understatement. Not only did Russian President Vladimir Putin seize Crimea in 2014, but this seizure came despite the 1994 Budapest Memorandum in which Russia agreed to, and the United States guaranteed, Ukraine’s sovereignty within its set borders in exchange for its forfeiture of its legacy Soviet nuclear weapons, the 1991 Almaty Declaration that affirmed the borders of Soviet successor states, and Ukraine’s willingness to lease Russia a naval base on the Black Sea.