Trump said he could stop war in 24 hours, but team appears daunted by negotiation with ‘a lot of detail attached to it’
Diplomacy, it turns out, is hard. The 24 hours that Donald Trump promised he would need to halt the fighting in Ukraine have long since passed. And the administration has done little of the hard diplomatic work that was required to secure landmark deals like the Dayton agreement or the Camp David accords in the past.
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Rubio clearly wished to vent frustration on Friday, a day after Trump had said in the White House that he was waiting for Russia’s response to the proposed framework for a peace deal and expected to have it this week. The White House appears to be increasingly frustrated with Moscow, something that both European and Ukrainian officials had hoped would take place.
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There was always an expertise gap in the difficult negotiations over a ceasefire to the Russian war in Ukraine. Now the administration appears to have a patience gap and has signaled it is ready to walk away. Ukraine does not have that option.
Bro really thought, after everyone else involved since 2014, he could just get in the room and say:
Who would have thought this matter could be ‘just a smidge’ more complicated than “you should probably just stop it”? Children raised on silver spoons often expect others to simply obey them, regardless of what the situation is.