What security guarantees could Donald Trump give Ukraine?

Have you ever seen a photo with a more deliberate power move?

Trump is meeting with European leaders.  The article doesn’t list who is in attendance, but Zelensky is in front on the left, and it looks like Gioria Meloni in front on the right.  The president of Finland is Trump’s golfing buddy.  He might be to the right of Zelensky.

These are smart and powerful people, but the seating arrangement shows that they are subordinate to President Trump.  They all know this.

Youtube doesn’t yield any video, but it would be interesting to see how they ended up in that seating arrangement.  The photo makes it look like President Trump was sitting at his desk, when the European leaders came in.  Maybe Trump stood up, and said something like, “Hey guys, have a seat.  Grab a couple of those chairs.  Stephen, can you grab some extra chairs from the dining room?”

Meetings with big shots are usually well choreographed, with status attached to who sits where, and with whom.  Nobody is going to listen to the guys in the back row.

Most reporting of the event doesn’t feature this photo, but I’d like a whole article just about how this shot came to be.